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04-23-2018, 10:06 AM
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Robbery in progress? What would you do?
I have to apologize for my inaction but it took me a moment to process and then i didnt know what i would do. What would you have done?
I was riding to work this AM (645ish). I was on Moraga Ave in Clairemont/Bay Ho, San Diego. I looked to my left and saw a guy on a cross street riding a bike while hand towing another. No helmet. Normal looking clothes. after getting the feeling that something wasnt right, i looked back and saw he was on a nice looking Giant (brand) bike that may have been an ebike. The downtube was large. He crossed Moraga and that was that. If i had turned around and caught him, what would i say? what would i do? If you live in the area and lost your Giant bike this AM, reach out to me. I have a front and rear camera and while i doubt you would be able to ID the guy from the footage, it may be a start. An important note: I didnt see a crime being committed. The key piece of information that i am basing this whole thing on was the fact that he had 2 bikes and was riding one while using one hand on the handlebar of another to bring it along. 
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#4
04-23-2018, 10:35 AM
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The other guys bring up a good point. I could have looked like this a guy a few times after building or picking up a new bike up at a friend's place. I get wanting to make sure your neighborhood is safe so maybe say what's up and a get a feel for the situation if he's in a hurry or sketchy seeming.
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#5
04-23-2018, 10:36 AM
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I have a lot of "shooting buddies" who are in law enforcement: from SWAT all the way to prosecutors and they generally say the same thing: if you see a crime being committed by all means call 911 and provide as detailed a description as you can of the suspects, location, etc...but do not intervene, especially if it's "only" a property crime.
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#6
04-23-2018, 10:44 AM
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I hope you all are right. I tend to look at things with glass half empty mentality.
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04-23-2018, 11:19 AM
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i've done this so many times. either while i'm moving apartments, meeting up with a friend who doesn't ride who needs wheels for our plans that day, retrieving a bike i locked up the night before and found a different way home, or returning a bike to a friend that i fixed for them.
would definitely not assume they stole it, especially if it had both wheels and no lock still locked around any tubes.
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04-23-2018, 12:57 PM
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04-23-2018, 01:14 PM
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In London, there are mostly motorcycle thieves who use a pair of guys to abscond with bikes by one rider pushing the stolen bike (with accomplice aboard) with his foot. Lots of these brazen thefts are on YouTube showing passers-by doing nothing, even as a lengthy process of angle-grinding a heavy lock takes place first.
I've ghost ridden bicycles home from so many thrift shops and garage sales as to have lost count, but it's in the hundreds. My record was 18 hilly miles, after I abandoned a training ride to snag a nice mountainbike being sold at an affluent area's neighborhood garage sale. I had to switch bikes for one very steep long hill, using the MTB's lower gearing to get all the way up (the MTB was stuck in the smallest ring, and my left hand was devoted to steering either bike by the stem). It is a dangerous practice. I've tossed a couple of bikes when hidden bumps got the "towed" bike to dancing. And I gnashed and crashed a pair of MTB's, one of which I was donating to a less-fortunate fellow employee at work. One must watch their speed when doing this, like I said it's the speed and hidden bumps that can put the "slave" bike into a dance. Also the handlebars must be kept from touching at all times. Climbing hills can be as hard as any race, and I've been cheered over the top of climbs by standers-by (most recently by a police officer who was attending to a pair of transient panhandlers). I also receive many intentionally humorous taunts from those accusing me of stealing the bike as I pass our local taverns and pubs. I guess I could say that I have gotten good at this.
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#13
04-23-2018, 01:16 PM
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I’m a big fan or ‘see something, say something’. Get info, call police.
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04-23-2018, 02:36 PM
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Some close calls but I made it home.
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