STOLEN AT's

[BobA]

The sad news is, there is a pattern emerging here.

Every lowlife kid on the block now wants a scrambler to tear-a$$ around local fields and roads to terrorise the community.

The AT, is of course a big a$$ bike to them, which will fit their purpose, especailly as it will cost 'em nothing if they nick it.

OUR BIKES are becoming the focus of a new breed of low life scum, and their looks, and relatively poor security put us all at risk.

I am resurrecting a stolen/recovered RD04, which was completely trashed, and there have been two thefts that we know of from forum members in the last week.

PLEASE, be more vigilant, use extra security if you can, and lets try and stop these awful stories of hardworking respectable people losing their pride and joys.

Bob

P.S. Is it just the UK where this happens, has society really lost grip on right and wrong? BA$TARDS, I f'kin kill 'em

[Shep]

here, here Bob you are 100% correct.

I was in New Orleans about 6 years ago in a TAXI and we started talking about Guns, he told me to open the glove box. This really big handgun was there, he told me the following, i kid you not.

" I used to have a 38 one day 2 guys broke into my house and it took me the full chamber to kill them, so i went out and bought me this 45 a REAL GUN"

bloody hell !!!! i paid him and gave him a tip, and called him sir.

I have changed my view 100% as regards Gun law. WE NEED THEM to protect ourself from the criminals and the goverment, same thing !!!!. Would it have been so easy for Hitler if the Jews had been well armed? what about Stalin when the knock came at the door at 3 in the morning to millions of innocents?. Or would that Africa Twin thief think twice if he knew the owner was armed and will use it to PROTECT WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY HIS.

[chronyx]

Oh but what about their human rights? The poor misguided little souls.

What about our right not to have our stuff nicked, or a chance of getting it back if it does?

Feel for all you guys that have been 'deprived'; I don't know what I'd do.

[Dilbert]

That's supposed to be why we have theft on our insurance policies, but you try and claim anywhere near the cost of a real replacement, that's when you find out who the thieving bastards really are

[africatijn]

Over here the off roadies are getting more and more popular with thieves as well... so be warned.

They tried to nick the NX250 of a friend of mine in broad daylight!! Problem is, when you catch them while stealing, you still have to be carefull because then they may have a go at you.... Castrate the b**tards

[z-weiser]

woah there tigers!

i genuinely feel for those who have stuff nicked - it's crap and it's not fair and it brings out the worst in everyone!

but seriously if you do hear/see someone trying to steal a bike/your bike here are a few hints:

1) do not wander over and try to stop them - they probably have a screwdriver/knife/bolt crops and even if you are a total monster if there is more than one and they are tooled up you are going to get hurt - most of us have families - look at the news at the mo - it isn't worth putting your family through that!
2) By all means shout from somewhere safe that you are calling the fuzz and do it! - this will likely make them look elsewhere!
3) take photos of them with your camera phone - the damn things have more mega-pixels than coverage that will be damn good evidence to assist the gendarmes
4) no security is thief proof (deal with lots of them trust me on this) all you can do is buy yourself time

essentially do not put yourself at risk - even in the heat of the moment - read the papers at the mo and that unfortunately is reality they will kill you and not give a sh*t - don't risk it - please!
don't think you are safe to go with a weapon - look at that poor special constable who made that mistake - it cost her her life!

i know this all sounds a bit emotional and we all like to think we are the man, but i'm talking as an ex-bouncer who can handle himself (now a defence lawyer - hence knowing just how nasty these scum can be!) you are more improtant than a bike - even if you don't think so your other half/son/daughter will think so!!!

if we all start taking it into our own hands the lines go and then everything is fair game, if we all get hand guns - the scum get uzi's - same as in the USA.

they are thieving scum: end of - we might lose bikes - they are insured - don't lose your life/health and don't lose your integrity/good character.

here endeth the gospel according to Z

[BobA]

On reflection, z-weiser's comments make perfect sense.

They (the said scumbags) value a cigarette more than a life, so please people, no heroes OK.

BUT...I do stand by my comments of being your own Lt Colombo.

I'm sure that 1 person devoting a bit of time and effort just looking in the most obvious local lout places will pay more dividends that a whole force not really looking at all!

My heart goes out to all those that suffer at the hands of societies dregs, and hope you get your stuff back, and the perp's are caught and suffer.

Thats my lot!

Cheers

Bob

[Chad]

in the case of the AT's would it not be right to assume that they could be stolen to order considering just how popular this bike has been in europe organised gangs would find it very profitable to ship a stolen AT over there it wouldnt take long to dispose of one

and most likely these guys would be tooled up and there be about 3 or 4 of them mind you i dont know if i could contain myself if i saw someone ****ing with my bike i would probably be out there like a windmill on speed

and therein lies the problem its very easy to over react in the heat of the moment

but i do agree with you Z wise words indeed

[londonbubble]

Oh sh#te, you have pressed the wrong button, now its time for me to stand on my soap box So skip to the topic if your bored.

Yes Z in an ideal world your comments are right, no disrespect but you sound like my cousins, one is a crown prosecutor at the Bailey and the other is a probation officer in Manchester . Remember the law and justice are not related, i doubt they even have the same blood line . And everybody who works in the legal profession knows this to be true

I used to love this country and the people in it. When i first became a taxi driver in London, i vowed that i would never be a miserable cab driver like the others i saw on the road. Twelve years down the line i am one of them, not only that, i don't offer my self up as as a witness to events anymore such is my dismay at what is happening around us. My Polish girlfriend used to think the UK was 'safe' and that it was a law abiding country and never quite understood my attitude. After living here for eight months, she wants to go back to Poland she feels safer there! and thats in Katowitc

Believe me mate, i am not soft by any stretch of the imagination, but when you work nights in a big city you become void of any emotion. I would fill this forum up with tales of my job at night. and I deal with people right across the spectrum, such as MP's A,B,C UK celebs to Hollywood stars, and punters from the shallow end of the gene pool(sometimes one and the same thing?) The law deals with the events after they have happened. We are dealing with the events in real time, not from the comfort of a centrally heated office working nine till five with an hours lunch break.

When i 'was' a law respecting citizen i used to call the police to situations that was embroiled in, in the all the events the police used to ask me one thing 'were there any witnesses' In one incident i was a victim of road rage with a passenger as a witness in the back of the cab. The police still did not press charges despite me having the vehicle registration and physical description of my attacker, and where was the attack? Whitehall in London, home to Downing street and Parliament, camera'd up to the hilt.

They got my attackers address, and confirmed he had 'previous' but there was a dangerous dog registered at the address, to quote the officers words 'we need at least two officers involved when there is a dangerous dog at an address and we don't have the manpower to deal with it' ......... case closed . My black eye and jaw healed and i paid for the damage to the cab, that was my reward for calling the police. I have so many stories of police ineptitude. If you have no witnesses then basically there is no case. I learnt from those combined experiences and now i make sure when i am dealing with an 'event' there are no witnesses and justice is delivered .


My Taxi sits on the well lit drive of my property, it has been broken into four times in the last year each time via a window they smashed , once to steal thirty pence of change and the other times i could see nothing stolen. They broke in on the off chance i may have left something in the glove box i guess. And this is despite the fact that i leave the doors on the cab unlocked. I have called the police on all the occasions........ complete waste of time! But i have to take time off work and deal with the situation and pay for the damage afterwards. The last time it happened, i was watching telly in my lounge, and i heard the the central locking operating in my cab, i looked out of the lounge window and saw a pair of legs dangling out the side of the drivers door window. I had my trackie bottoms on and put my trainers on grabbed my trusty machete (even my sixty year old west indian female grandmother nieghbour has one of these) and run up the stairs (i live in a basement) In my excitement and adrelanin rush of actually catching the scumbag red handed i started swearing at him really loudly. Well firk me! when he saw this fifteen and half stone barechested skinhead waving a machete he took off. I had only taken about ten steps and this guy (who was built like a whippet) had run a fifty adrelanin fueled yards, i had no chance of catching him. I stopped for a breather puffing and panting, i saw half a brick on the floor, i picked it up and threw it at him, i missed him...just! Funny thing is, i haven't had a break in for quite a while now wonder why?

I am writing to the Olympic commitee for the 2012 Olympics
if and when they build that stadium down the road from me to write me off the track and field events ie sprint and shot putt. And find the mutha that broke into my cab, i've never seen somebody move so fast in my life.......and he was looking behind at me whilst he was running I did a solo ride to Russia a few years ago, and i had a load of warnings beforehand of what was gonna happen to me and my bike,throat cut, bike stolen,kidnapped by the mafia etc etc. i felt safer there than i do here

I don't have a wife any more or kids, so quite frankly i could not give a sh#t if i go to jail or get hurt for doing what i think is right. I'll do my time inside and let the taxpayer pay for my studies and come out with a honours degree via the open university, it worked for Mcvicar and Boyle, who said crime does not pay? Yes we should have guns, why should the criminals have all the fun! if i could go to work with one i would. Pref a Gimpy on the roof for the taxi touts and a sawn off close to me for troublesome ****es.

No mate, sitting around and waititng for things to get better is not gonna work, thats just makes money for lawyers. Do we just sit here in fear of being hurt or maimed and not doing what we raised to believe is right in our hearts. Or do we take a stand?. Look at instances of people who took a stand against the powers ruling them. Wether you believe in there politics is irrelevant look at the courage of there convictions, people such as Ghandi, Mandella, Rosa Parks, Emily Pankhurst . Rightly or wrongly,they got results purely because they had had enough and took a stand.

B#llocks to anybody who tells me to sit around and call the police, i'll take and have taken my chances. Don't get me wrong i am not against the police as human beings, when they don't wear a uniform they are no different to us. They are as frustrated as we are, they have to do there jobs with there hands tied behind there backs.This goverment is using classic divide and rule politics. Remember! 'Procrastination is the same thing as giving up' I don't have many regrets in life, but i sure wish i had a trade or proffession that i could use in another country, i'm a bit to old to be retrained so i'll have to stand and fight, and wait every week for those six numbers to come up

Ahhhhhhh....... thats better got it all of my chest, i can go to work and face the little darlings now And don't anyone even mention the travesty we call 'law' in the divorce courts, you'll just start me off again and it really is no good for my blood pressure


Londonbubble

[Chad]

f@ck me dude your fingers must be bleeding after that lot

im like you dont start me off on d,i,v,o,r,c,e or i'll have a massive rush of blood to the head robbing bastards