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If you knew who had been convicted of stealing your bike what would you do?
My insurance company paid out so should I tell them who was convicted so they can attempt to reclaim the costs?
There is no point contacting your insurance company they won't be interested, likely that the offender won't be able to pay anything anything or will be paying 50p a week costs. Good news though that someone was convicted.
Call the pipe hitting folk and let them loose with the pliers and a blowtorch.
Or do as the insurance company suggests and get over the theft, yuh vigilante!
You need to ask....
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Find out when he's due to be released and buy some more sturdy bike locks before then.
Find out when he's due to be released and buy some more sturdy bike locks before then.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Have you seen the "punishments" meted out to convicted bike thieves?
Punishments?
They get tickled for 10 minutes then have tea at Mcdonalds?
18 months community order with a six months curfew from 8pm-6am every night. He ordered him to do 80 hours of unpaid work.
Ten minutes of tickling? I'd rather go to prison.
Or they could get sent to Binners house. And watch deal or no deal whilst spooning on the sofa!
He admitted to 22 bike thefts, I'm guessing all were in Cheltenham.
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Ass. Medieval on.
I prefer forking to spooning 😀
You dirty boy Binners.
(Me too) 🙂
camber1234 - Member
18 months community order with a six months curfew from 8pm-6am every night. He ordered him to do 80 hours of unpaid work.
What else did they pin him/her down to get that sentence?
Find out where his community service is.
Regularly hang out there just watching him.
Play with his feeble little pikey mind a bit, knowing some mystery person is following him round. Maybe follow him home once a week, making sure he sees you, so knows you know where he lives.
All about the psychological warfare.
edlong - MemberFind out when he's due to be released and buy some more sturdy bike locks before then.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Have you seen the "punishments" meted out to convicted bike thieves?
you obviously missed the way I hit the keyboard sarcastically. 😉
He was caught on CCTV trying to break into a house and stealing from a car.
Could you request a meeting? There was some initiative about perps meeting victims once; why not ask if you could give the criminal a piece of your mind. To give you closure, then pull out the Bombers.
There is an online news article for him on "This is Gloucestershire" from the end of October this year.
If you know their name, find out where they are doing community service, walk up to them in a big long coat and a trilby and ask them if they are such and such and when they say yes, say we thought so and walk off.
It would be totally wrong and illegal to go round his house and spray paint thief on the front of it, as would be puting a bike lock on any car wheel parked near by,or signing him up to porn and replacement double glazing sales calls,even putting an add in the local paper for a Ford focus or similar car for sale at a reduced price,with a neighbours contact number on it but his name.
But oh such fun if it was allowed.
There is an online news article for him on "This is Gloucestershire" from the end of October this year.
Print it out LOTS of times and (allegedly) billpost it as many times as you can in his neighbourhood and in the town centre.
Hmmm, a leaflet drop through doors in the neighbour hood - is that infringing on his rights?! (seems most laws protect the criminals)
I'm susprised this Gareth is 24, doesn't appear to need to shave yet
Speaking from a past personal perspective i'd prob break the majority of his fingers so he's have problems stealing anything else or removing his 😯 from his pant's to pi$$ but i'm sure the stw social workers would tie me to a stake and burn me for even mentioning such a thing so i'd like to say i'd offer him counselling and a nice cup of tea along with a chat as to why it is wrong to steal other peoples possessions instead, then let him carry on his merry way.
Yep a small part of me would like to do that but I'm not particularly big or strong so violence isn't my thing. I'm sure there are plenty of other local 'Nam riders who had their bikes stolen that may want to offer counselling, tea and words of wisdom.
If anything I'm more irritated at the criminal justice system in this country - he stole 22 bikes, assuming each were worth somewhere between 1 and 2K are an estimated value of 22 to 44K; this guy gets a curfew and community service - if I defrauded an insurance company of 22K I would get a jail sentance.
I'm sure he is happy sat at home watching his big tele knowing the judge took pity on him and accepted his words that he wanted to turn his life around...
he stole 22 bikes, assuming each were worth somewhere between 1 and 2K are an estimated value of 22 to 44K; this guy gets a curfew and community service
You are joking aren't you?....stealing 22 bikes and he gets a curfew and community sentence?,....... back in 1993 i got caught with 1.1g of cannabis resin at a party, i got 4 weeks and a £750 fine, released after 3 days due to appeal but still had the fine to pay - i refused on the grounds "it's a ****ing joke", got sent down again to serve the remainder of my sentence.
I'd be more than irritated at the sentence he got - christ!...i'm sure you're bloody livid and to be honest there doesn't sound like much you can do. I'm not big nor strong but i've been brought up to have the utmost respect for other folks possessions and thief's of any descriptions have always got what they deserve round here (rural scottish fishing town - look after their own type thing), can't offer any advice apart from perhaps move to somewhere where the folk are decent.