> I'm glad John got his bike back, and to that respect I consider it a > "happy ending", but is he going to be able to recover the accessories > that were stripped off? >
He mentioned before that he'd paid by Visa, so maybe they can do something. Otherwise it's the price of not having insurance. > Is he going to recover his peace of mind so he can get full use out of > his transportation? > The way to do that is to be pragmatic about the whole situation. Get insurance and take adequate precautions - bar-code it, register it with the police, use a decent lock, always lock it in a very public place among other bikes, don't have the nicest park in the bike park, don't get too attached to your bike. Thieves nick the type of bike they think they can sell quickly, so it's worthwhile making your bike look undesirable. In the UK this generally means making it look like the sort of thing old men in day-glo jackets ride. Put a grotty old Carradice saddlebag on the back, and a basket on the front, and no self-respected tea-leaf will ever look at it, even if you and a few aficionados know it's a custom-built Roberts made from Reynolds 853 and worth £3k. > He got his bike back, but the thieves still got away with the crime, > and > are likely to strike again. > nothing is going to stop people nicking bikes. Realistically, the police are never going to prioritise something like this over everything else clamouring for their attention and budget. Even when they catch someone it's not that big a crime and however much people may talk about stocks, pillories and so on the proportionate punishment is never going to be much. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
