Watch this Bike Thief Get Owned

Original plan was strategic. Not really the owner’s fault things went a bit rough but I would’ve done the same too at that point. Was a good day indeed.

Coolest thing seen in long while. Big unknown was police response time. Was touch n go there for a bit but glad the po po showed up and acted on the information quickly. Got me thinking, how do you convince someone who doesn’t know bikes that it’s yours? Kick ass.

Well done dude, a strong message well sent. “Don’t mess with bicyclists – we care about our rides”.

I recently had a Marin Bear Valley SE MTB stolen, it was a 17 year old bike but it was AWESOME to ride. I wasn’y lucky enough to spot it online 🙁

I remember a cop saying put your business card in the seat post or inside a tire (between tube and tire) write “THIS BIKE IS STOLEN, if name does not match name on this card, call Police. – Might not help most people out, but if the bike was ever taken to a bike shop for work it might work out.

Post this guy’s full name and Facebook page and lets find his girlfriend. We need to find out who they are where they work.

I would not want this guy as a co-worker.

I respect that he went great lengths to find his bike. But nontheless, what if in another situation the person had actually purchasaed it from someone else (the thief)? If 1-3 years have lapsed since the bike was stolen, then who knows how many hands had exchanged the bike. I’ve bought a bike from Craigslist but have never did it again since because it’s always going through my head when I ride the bike – “what if the bike I purchased was stolen and I get nabbed in the future”? But then again, I’d have proof of the exchange in e-mail conversations leading up to the purchase of the bike if it ever comes to that.

I like his girlfriend

Great video !
Excellent work by the Orignal owner to get his bike back .
I too would have escalated this to physical altercation if I was that close to the guy for that long .
In the end any cop would have just said ” oh we’ll that didn’t work out too well for him ” ie: the theif so when all else fails – kick his ass !
Great video , glad you got your bike back and Craig went to jail.
I’m surprised they didn’t arrest his GF as a acomplice as well.

Kind of irresponsible to post this here. Couple reasons. Glad it worked out, though.

In some areas, it can be a class A misdemeanor to use profanity in the presence of minors. A supermarket parking lot would constitute such an area, as was most of the public areas during the chase. Thus, the recorders could be charged when a prosecutor watches any of the raw video (all raw, not just the edited, will need to be reviewed for ANYTHING used here to be used in a case). Simply touching the alleged thief is also assault.

The alleged thief has a cause of action against these guys. Not that he will file, nor is he smart enough to do so anyway. But the stolen bike victims have opened themselves up to liability well above the simply the dubious value of a $2500 Fuji.

The girlfriend, etc. should have been entirely edited out of the video along with accusation made publicly about her involvement. Not smart one bit. She has a very good civil cause of action against the recorders.

The two things above are moot if both parties have, by the time of the video posing, been found guilty of the allegations made. Otherwise, their identities should have been obscured in the videos.

Joe King takes is a little far, but is right. Not really smart. Even dumber for BR to repost. He is right about cops. In general, they are not your friends and you NEVER want to deal with them except in matters of truly life-or-death. This isn’t. May seem so, but it isn’t even close.

This is grand theft, and should be prosecuted a such. If your bike gets stolen and you want to set up a sting get the police involved first so the is no worry about response time or have a female friend call 911, distressed white girls always get the cops roll’n. While some of the responses to this video have been discouraging this type of action, I applaud it. Yes its risky to confront criminals, but we need to do that to stop criminal behavior – we can’t be complacent. Legally if you detain someone you might be committing battery and or false imprisonment, but if its a citizens arrest it might be a different story… If it was me, I’d have set it up better and had more homies ready for a chase, and a bunch of zip ties to handcuff and hog tie. I think I’d want to take a trophy picture like a big game hunter with my quarry all tied up in front McDonalds or whatever. Also, if your involved in bike their like the horse faced girlfriend, you are an accomplice and deserve to have your face blasted all over the interwebs.

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are you F*CKING serious??? it’s a misdemeanor to curse in front of a child? it happens everywhere all the time. and the DA or child’s parents would have to file a police report or complaint for action to be taken. don’t think that’s going to happen…

also the definition of assault is threatening another individual. battery is the physical violence. no your shit before you open your gap.