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i'm so sorry! I have never understood how people can just steal something from someone else - it makes me sick. people work hard for the things they have!
That sucks so bad. You're kind of motivating me to turn my bike into functional art in my living room....
Apparently these thieves have been coming in and out over the past few weeks stealing 2-3 bikes every time.
I'm also really pissed off that the building didn't let us know sooner that this was happening. If we had known after the first theft we would have moved our bikes up into our apartment until they got everything sorted out.
The bike room was supposed to be completely secure so with that PLUS the locks we felt pretty safe.
Aw I'm sorry! My brother had his really expensive bike stolen from the garage of his condo building in a really nice neighborhood. Sometimes people are just jerks :(
That's insane. There is a big stolen market bike in my city too. I hope they find both bikes and the criminals who stole them.
This is the second time in my life something has been stolen (I had my GPS stolen out of my car when it was parked outside my apartment).
However this one feels even worse because they were INSIDE the building AND I saw the security camera footage of them actually taking the bikes out of the building. And could easily ID one as my DH's bike.
Actually seeing these kids (they looked like hooligan teenagers) stealing the bikes and popping wheelies on the way out of the garage made me SO angry!
That sucks! I'm so sorry! Do you have any insurance coverage for them?
This is DH's worst nightmare as we both have extremely expensive full suspension mountain bikes!
I'm sorry that happened, hopefully they will find the people who took them! DH got his bike stolen except it was a motorcycle, out of our gated community. What was even more frustrating is we watched the tapes for the entire day and nothing that could've held a bike came in or out, which meant it was somewhere in a storage unit in our gated community, but we had no proof of who took it so we were SOL!
People these days!
@mittens111211: Unfortunately our insurance only covers things that are physically IN our apartment.
I just feel with a key card only access garage, plus a residents only code access room, plus steel cable bike locks we had a reasonable expectation that our bikes would be safe.
I'm especially angry that the building KNEW people were breaking into the garage (and knew HOW they were breaking in) yet didn't notify residents OR do anything to remedy the situation.
Oh I am so sorry. I hope everything works out. I wonder if you could hold the building responsible insurance-wise? Surely they are responsible for the security? Why have a secure bike park if it's just as safe as leaving it chained in the street? I'd speak to the managing agent, I don't know how pricey your bikes are but these things aren't always easy to replace, and it's not fault. I'm sure if you'd known you'd have found an alternative.
@ladyartichoke: DH's bike will be impossible to replace here as his make/model/color combination was never sold in the UK. I guess that will also make it easily identifiable to the police.
We are also providing the police with serial numbers for easier identification of the bikes.
That sucks.
And I agree that your complex was really negligent in not letting you know sooner. It sounds like they knew this was going on and you could have taken the bikes up to your unit so they would be safe.
@Mrs.KMM: Yeah, that's part of what's most annoying about this whole thing. I really hope they take some responsibility for all this.
I'd be pretty pissed, too, that mgmt didn't let me know about the thefts. That's their job, even if just one bike was stolen.
I'm sorry this happened to you. People truly suck sometimes. :-/ Just keep checking Craigslist & such. You've submitted the serial numbers, so hopefully, they'll turn up @ a pawn shop or something.
Good luck!
I'm so sorry. That's pathetic that noone will do anything even with footage of the theft.
@KatNYC2011: With the locked room and card key for the garage is it possible that someone AT your building was somehow involved? It just seems suspicious that it was a well known fact and nothing was done to stop it or warn the residents unless someone at the building had something to gain.
Then again perhaps I am a bit cynical. Just thought I would mention it.
@ticatica: The cops are supposed to come by and pick up the footage, but it seems they are not taking this all to seriously.
@Treejewel19: I'm pretty sure it's not someone in the building since they are getting in with a forged emergency key and they used wire cutters to get into the locked bike room (they didn't have the code).
Guess all we can do is just keep checking for our bikes on sites and in stores where stolen bikes are sold.
We have the receipts with the serial numbers so we can prove they are ours if we do find them.
oh man, I would be pissed.
there's a ton of bike blogs out there - maybe you can put the word out on one (or more) of them about your bikes. especially if your husbands bike is easy to ID visually. I've seen that done with good results on our local blogs bc bicycle theft is a big thing here.
Oh no! I am so sorry this happened. The crime in my area is pretty bad, mostly people breaking into cars and stealing things from yards. They target the Americans around here. :\
It's ridiculous that your building didn't notify the residents after the first theft. I'll keep my fingers crossed that they find your bikes.
wow this is just awful! I really hope you get your bikes back and/or are compensated for your losses. I hate thieves.
That's AWFUL! We have the same deal at my condo (locked bike room) and my DH refuses to put his bikes there. I've been getting annoyed recently that they're all sitting in my bedroom, but eek I guess I'll have to put up with them in my bedroom forever.
So there may be some good news (or at least we are keeping our fingers crossed). The police arrested a guy last Friday and he had 12 bikes. One belonged to someone in our building. DH's bike was taken a week ago Monday according to the security camera footage.
DH has sent the bike descriptions and serial numbers to the cops.
Keep your fingers crossed that our bikes are in that group of 12.
You need to be glad it was just bikes taken and not your life
@BluntBlowinVSDrawShowin: These are teenagers stealing bikes from the garage. They were never in the actual apartment building (there was a key fob only access door for that and we lock our apartment doors).
I understand we should all be thankful to be alive, but having your bikes stolen still sucks.
@mmsva: No idea. The cops won't let us look at the bikes in their storage locker and they won't look for them in there either. At this point if they had them, I'm sure they've been auctioned off by now in one of the private police only bike auctions.
DH is going to end up buying another bike and get a lock that comes with an insurance policy. I'm not certain yet whether I want a new one.
My college had a serious problem with people stealing bikes too, so I kept mine in my dorm. One day I go up to my room and guess what? I've failed the health and safety inspection because my bike is in my room! Apparently that's a fire hazard (???) so I take it downstairs to the bike racks in the parking garage and lock it with not one but TWO heavy locks. Guess what happens not one week later? Every bike on that rack is stolen. Thanks, Residence Life! Not only that but the bikes were directly in front of the parking attendant's booth and they refused to let me see the footage from the security cameras, so I'm pretty sure there was something fishy going on with the parking attendants...
Oh and when I called the cops out to do a police report, he acted annoyed with me that I dragged him all the way out there because "it's not like we're going to find them anyway." GEE MAYBE THAT'S WHY SO MANY KEEP GETTING STOLEN! I really hope they find yours, I'm impressed that they're actually doing something about it!
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So DH and I keep our bikes in a locked bike room inside the underground card key access only garage. On top of that, they are locked to metal wall hangers with steel cable locks.
Well, today I see a sign in our lobby that some bikes have been stolen, so I decide to go down and check thinking they must be there since we had wire cable locks on them.
Much to my surprise the bikes were gone, and our locks were on the ground having been cut with wire cutters.
DH and I are so pissed off. Apparently over the past two weeks people have been getting into the garage with fake keys and stealing bikes. There are no cameras in the storage room, but they do have footage of these guys riding bikes out of the garage.
I ID'd DH's bike from the footage but couldn't ID mine.
We shipped our bikes here all the way from the US and took ALL precautions. I mean in a locked key access only garage, behind a code key door, with steel cable locks on the bikes themselves because they were really nice bikes.
The building is working with the police and they've found one bike already (from two weeks ago) but who knows if all the thefts are related.
Anyway... end vent. Now DH and I have to constantly check craigslist and other sites as well as a notorious "stolen bike" market to see if they turn up.