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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:33 pm
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Mind-boggling Abomination
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:55 pm
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Mind-boggling Abomination
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:46 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 6:50 pm
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Kez Mani Ah. Well, I hope it all works out for you.
Daypaw Get the police report in ASAP, hopefully they'll be able to help you out. Is there any sort of community bike collective where you live where you can pick up a secondhand bike for less than retail? We have one here where we can get some really fantastic bikes for next to nothing, staffed all by volunteers- has a self service bike garage in the back and everything.
I just picked up another bicycle from the pawn shop. Unfortunately, it's a real junker... nothing like the bike that was stolen from me, but I can't afford to replace a decent bike like that with another, so I have to take what I can get. It'll need a lot of work, which I'm about to start on now, but hopefully when I' done working on it it'll be worthwhile to ride and since it won't look as nice it'll hopefully not be targeted.
Of course, those guys at the pawn shop had the sale cinched as soon as I walked in, as I had traversed all over for miles looking for a second-hand shop with bicycles while walking Rusty (he got so tired he had to stop and rest because he couldn't walk anymore), then I walked into a shop full of dog lovers who fawned over Rusty and gave him Bison treats. I couldn't help but buy a bicycle from them, though I was intent to anyways... lol.
It really pisses me off that somebody came right into my back yard and pulled this s**t, cutting the cable lock right there. If I had happened to be there when he tried that, I would have cut his hands off.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:24 pm
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Ned-san Kez Mani Ah. Well, I hope it all works out for you. Daypaw Get the police report in ASAP, hopefully they'll be able to help you out. Is there any sort of community bike collective where you live where you can pick up a secondhand bike for less than retail? We have one here where we can get some really fantastic bikes for next to nothing, staffed all by volunteers- has a self service bike garage in the back and everything. I just picked up another bicycle from the pawn shop. Unfortunately, it's a real junker... nothing like the bike that was stolen from me, but I can't afford to replace a decent bike like that with another, so I have to take what I can get. It'll need a lot of work, which I'm about to start on now, but hopefully when I' done working on it it'll be worthwhile to ride and since it won't look as nice it'll hopefully not be targeted. Of course, those guys at the pawn shop had the sale cinched as soon as I walked in, as I had traversed all over for miles looking for a second-hand shop with bicycles while walking Rusty (he got so tired he had to stop and rest because he couldn't walk anymore), then I walked into a shop full of dog lovers who fawned over Rusty and gave him Bison treats. I couldn't help but buy a bicycle from them, though I was intent to anyways... lol. It really pisses me off that somebody came right into my back yard and pulled this s**t, cutting the cable lock right there. If I had happened to be there when he tried that, I would have cut his hands off. Do you have anywhere more secure to leave your bike? When I used to visit my sister at a nearby apartment complex (long before she moved out of state) I'd haul my bike up three flights of stairs and sit it inside her apartment door because I didn't want to leave it outside. My brother did the same.
Do you perhaps have an out of the way corner or storage area for it if it wouldn't be terribly difficult to get it inside?
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:53 pm
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Daypaw Do you have anywhere more secure to leave your bike? When I used to visit my sister at a nearby apartment complex (long before she moved out of state) I'd haul my bike up three flights of stairs and sit it inside her apartment door because I didn't want to leave it outside. My brother did the same. Do you perhaps have an out of the way corner or storage area for it if it wouldn't be terribly difficult to get it inside?
If only I was back in my old house, I had plenty of space. But if I were back in my old house I wouldn't have to worry about it because that was a nice family neighborhood without this kind of crime. All the crime in my house complex were all perpetrated by the crooks working in the management office, which is unfortunately why I had to leave - from one type of crime infestation to another.
The place I moved to is a hole and a dump. I literally moved from a 2-story house (3 if you include the basement) to 2 rooms in a house. Almost everything I own is in storage on top of that, as I did not expect that I would have to downsize this drastically. Worst of all, with the cut in income I took I now pay more rent to live in this tiny dump in the worst part of town than I did to live in my old 2-story house in a family neighborhood. Plus all my neighbors in that neighborhood loved me and we all got along excellent.
There is only one redeeming quality to my new location, and that is when my new photo studio is finished being renovated in September, I will be literally one block away from work. But until then I have to struggle along with no place to work, and I'm having a very difficult time of it.
After reading your post I scoured this whole place looking for a better place to park my bicycle, but I couldn't find one. Hopefully the new lock on a ratty old bike will work better than the ratty old lock on a nice, decent bike, which is what I had before. I've been meaning to replace that old cable lock which was starting to show its wear, but who would of thought that I'd have to worry about the condition of my lock when parked in a back yard right in front of a frickin' window!? I just went to the store and bought a new U-lock for my cruddy old pawn shop bike, so I think the lock looks more expensive than the bike, lol. Hopefully that'll deter somebody. If not, then we'll just have to hope the timing is better next time. That guy was taking an awful big chance stealing from a guy who works for his own business with varied contracts and no set schedule of when to be out of the house. I could have come by at any time.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:49 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:36 pm
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