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"BruceA" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "David M" wrote
> > This is gonna sound stupid perhaps, but on a front veranda. Although it
> > *is* through a high intercom automatic gate (or over a 2.2m high
> > limestone wall) up 2 flights of very steep steps, in an almost-enclosed
> > veranda (old federation house). Out of sight, but still in very good
> > vis of a major road to escape with the loot or be climbing in over the
> > wall. Steel eyelets epoxy fixed into brickwork, and with a heavy
> > stainless cable poss 10mm (3/8") diam through both bikes and all
> > wheels, and a large hardened lock. And it was neatly cut whilst I slept
>
> Neatly cut? Wonder if it was a pre-meditated theft, ie they came
prepared?
> Wonder if they saw you coming and going with the bikes and thought they
> would be worth nicking?
> Bit academic at this stage really.
> Yeah, all sorts of "shoulds" go through your head after a theft. Should
> have kept it inside, should have specified it in the policy, should have
> left Staffy guarding the bikes!!
> Hope you are able to get something from insurance, on my policy I am able
to
> claim up to $1000 for items outdoors, or better still manage to find them.
> I know what it is like to have a bike pinched and not have the finances to
> replace it. When I first came to Perth 15 years ago I had my bike pinched
> from Curtin Uni, and being a student couldn't afford to replace it, so had
> to ride around on a $25 clunker for the next 12 months, which wasn't alot
of
> fun.
>
> BruceA
My brother had his bike nicked from Curtin (back when it was WAIT) a good 15
years ago - perhaps longer. He recently got a call from the local cop shop
to say they had found his stolen bike. It was the one nicked all those years
ago!
Frank
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>
> "David M" wrote
> > This is gonna sound stupid perhaps, but on a front veranda. Although it
> > *is* through a high intercom automatic gate (or over a 2.2m high
> > limestone wall) up 2 flights of very steep steps, in an almost-enclosed
> > veranda (old federation house). Out of sight, but still in very good
> > vis of a major road to escape with the loot or be climbing in over the
> > wall. Steel eyelets epoxy fixed into brickwork, and with a heavy
> > stainless cable poss 10mm (3/8") diam through both bikes and all
> > wheels, and a large hardened lock. And it was neatly cut whilst I slept
>
> Neatly cut? Wonder if it was a pre-meditated theft, ie they came
prepared?
> Wonder if they saw you coming and going with the bikes and thought they
> would be worth nicking?
> Bit academic at this stage really.
> Yeah, all sorts of "shoulds" go through your head after a theft. Should
> have kept it inside, should have specified it in the policy, should have
> left Staffy guarding the bikes!!
> Hope you are able to get something from insurance, on my policy I am able
to
> claim up to $1000 for items outdoors, or better still manage to find them.
> I know what it is like to have a bike pinched and not have the finances to
> replace it. When I first came to Perth 15 years ago I had my bike pinched
> from Curtin Uni, and being a student couldn't afford to replace it, so had
> to ride around on a $25 clunker for the next 12 months, which wasn't alot
of
> fun.
>
> BruceA
My brother had his bike nicked from Curtin (back when it was WAIT) a good 15
years ago - perhaps longer. He recently got a call from the local cop shop
to say they had found his stolen bike. It was the one nicked all those years
ago!
Frank
