Heart warming!

[jiggerypokery]

Imagine if you will.....

I leap on my trusty Charge Plug racer (see sale board in Classifieds) to pootle on down to the shops in the leafy suburban glade of Acocks Green. Hop off outside Sainsbury's and as I heft the lock/chain over my shoulder to lock the bike to the sheffield stand some oik grabs the bike and does one on it......

Today the Charge is a fixie, today the gods are with me and the stars aligned and as the oik gets to the bottom of the drive and meets the traffic the gods, stars and fixed wheel all come in to play and my thieving oik and bike come to a graceless manged halt.

Picture happy my face, picture his skinned knee, the chainring dug in to the back of his calve, skinned shoulder, hand and face and the little tear in the grip on the bars of my bike, picture the shame and confusion on his face...oh happy days!

PCSO turns up - copper turns up - oik goes for a chat with copper and a trip to Acocks Green nick... I treat my bike to new grips and consider keeping for ever as we have now bonded

 

[magnatom]

This thread is useless without video (there might be CCTV outside the shops that would have it!!)

 

[jiggerypokery]

I asked for it but can't have it, Data Protection & human rights guff.

 

[magnatom]

Actually, as far as I am aware, you have the right to get a hold of CCTV footage that you are in.

Check here.

 

[magnatom]

Just checked, that might just be public bodies.

 

[fossyant]

He nicked when you were that close to it....good grief...... I am assuming you had to run after him.......

I'd have accidentally booted him as I'd gone over to pick the bike up......

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

There is a God! I shall have to change my ways and start to pray.

 

[lazyfatgit]

Fantastic!

Glad the bike's OK.

Just one thought though. Shouldn't there be a health and safety notice on the fixie identifiying it as such (just in case some unknowing tea leaf thinks about stealin it)

 

[palinurus]

Excellent!

 

[Rhys_Po]

Tremendous stuff.

Reminiscent of a similar thing that happened to a mate. He'd leant his bike against a fence and had turned his back to get his D-Lock out of his backpack when an opportunist scrote decided to have it away.

My mate was riding Shimano M970- clipless pedals, it was wet and said scrote was wearing the obligatory undone huge chav-trainers. He'd only managed to get 10 yards away before he started slipping off the pedals and couldn't get any speed up. Long enough for my mate (Triathlete & Blindside Flanker) to have caught up with him on foot and given him a heart-warming kicking.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Excellent! Definitely worth trying to get the CCTV video - if ever there was something that needed to be youtubed ... :-)

 

[swee'pea99]

Excellent! A heart warming tale indeed. (Tho' I have to say I'm a bit surprised plod didn't arrest you for "possession of an unsafe device likely to cause injury to unsuspecting scrotes".)

 

[upsidedown]

Beautiful, just beautiful, the only way that could be funnier is if a stray German Shepherd had set about him while he was lying there moaning.


I actually grew up in Acocks Green, left about 20 years ago. We didn't have a Sainsburys then, just a Co-Op and a Kwik Save, obviously been poshed up a bit since then.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Actually, as far as I am aware, you have the right to get a hold of CCTV footage that you are in.

Check here.

I'm sure if you mentioned the comedic qualities of said footage they'd be only too happy to release it for general dissemination.

 

[jiggerypokery]

Sainsbury's is/was Kwicksave... and as for poshed up...lmao....oh god don't even think it. Mrs JP grew up here too and went to Arches and her wayward brother was part of the AG MAssive (possibly the lamest gangsta wannabe's ever) we do however now have a Costa so you're right there must be some urban chic edging its way in