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Remember that trusting cyclist who let a complete stranger “try out” his KHS bike – only to watch him pedal away, never to return? The story has a (sort of) happy ending, as the victim, Michael Green, relates in a long post on his blog, which uses that eyesore ‘white text on black background’ format. To spare you the eyestrain, here’s the gist: While Green was out of town this weekend, a couple of his pals in the cycling community spotted his distinctive bike in Alphabet City, being pedaled by “a short Hispanic male, in a cameo thermal shirt who looked very awkward and did not possess the skills to ride a brakeless fixie.”
Green’s pals trailed the suspect to the housing projects on Avenue D and 6th Street, and held back when they observed him meet up with some of his “bigger hommies.” They called for backup, and soon a large “posse” of cyclists had amassed to confront him. “Here's where the details are a bit foggy,” according to Green:
This was obviously about money, the guy said he bought the bike for $150 on Houston street and didn't want to lose money. The bike crew convinced the guy that I was over by the bike polo grounds at Sara D. Roosevelt park on Chrystie street. This was an attempt to get him to a place where there were a whole bunch more bikers who could help out in this. Somehow the guy agreed to go, but not by bike. He had a minivan close by and said he would meet them over there.The police were called and pulled up while the group was en route to the park, but they refused to intervene, which you'll find to be typical if you haven't registered your bike with your local precinct, which Green had not. Finally, one of his friends talked the suspect into handing over the bike in exchange for $50, “the cops made everyone shake hands in some sort of UN peacekeeping gesture and everyone disbursed.”
And Green tops off his happy ending with a word for the haters who skewered him when Gothamist first reported the incident: “For all those out there who made fun of me on various websites, where I was constructively trying to share my experience with others in the off chance that this could happen, you don't have to sit in silence and shame. There is a vibrant tight knit, awesome bike community out there...doing really positive things and might just go above and beyond to help you out.”
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LOL @ the fake Post cover, because reality is quickly becoming a parody of itself. Yes!
I am telling you that there is a HUGE mexican Bike Thieve Ring. If you're bike is stolen, 99% of the time it's cause a mexican delivery guy saw your bike when it was outside and he was delivering food and then he called in his mexican friends with a van and powertools and they opened your locks and took your bike and then sold it to other mexican delivery guys for 100-200 bucks. Go to any deli and there are tons of bikes that are stolen and taped up. BULLY DELI on 8th street and Broadway is a good example. My bike was stolen and a week later I found it there all taped up and they scratched off my serial number. They have a ton of stolen bikes on their racks. If any of you guys are from critical mass or want to write an Expose on Stolen Bike rings I would suggest you start there. This will be a huge scoop for gothamist if you guys send reporters to bust down these everyday crimes that go unpunished. I mean they are basically stealing tons of bikes daily, scratching off the serial numbers and the police won't do a thing.
Lucky bastard, I'm surprised that:
1) The thief didn't know better than to tape up/repaint the frame and the aerospokes
2) The thief's homies didn't tell the cycleboys to f off back to Williamsburg
he's still le grande douche...
He'll fall for it again. Skateboard kids wouldn't have paid...
my last bike got stolen by a mexican infront of my face. i saw him ride off with it. couldn't catch up. he pick my chain.
the guy is still a idiot haha.
nobody in their right mind would steal my rusted out huffy, less they want to die because they couldn't stop at a red light.
it could have been all been avoided if he just said no to the guy who wanted to try out the bike...
Babyhitler: more proof please, less racist generalisations.
the real bicycling community = great
the internet bicycling community on forums laced with politics and bigotry = not so great
no one in their right junkie mind would buy a stolen bike for $100-$200 off the streets.
I just saw an Asian guy trying to sell a handtruck for $15 and a business owner tried to haggle him down to $10
"Cameo thermal shirt?" “Bigger hommies?”
seriously. if you're going to use words like "homies" and camo, they should be spelled correctly. credibility = out the window.
The only reason he got it back was because the thief was almost as gullible as he was and, as Rocknrope wrote, too dumb to change the distinctive appearance of the bike. The next time, he'll be smart enough to repaint or better yet, part out the bike.
I missed the original post, but people gave him shit for letting a stranger "try out" his bike, right? Hey Michael, can I try out your wallet? I just want to check the action on that bi-fold; I promise I'll give it back.
It's a good thing the cycling community is so tight knit; while they are most certainly tools, generally speaking this lot doesn't seem to be the sharpest tools.
I find it amusing that the police made him buy his own bike back for $50. They really ought to start paying the cops more so they work a little harder.
#10 - the proof is that I got my bike stolen and that I recovered it from this mexican gang. I had the serial numbers registered, filed a police report, registered it with the police department and the receipt and pictures and proof of ownership as well as having a piece of paper with my name and number inside the handlebar. Registering your bike with the police is useless! They don't give a fuck! as long as the crooks scratch off the serial numbers you are screwed and they do that all the time! The proper police procedure is for the Officers to confiscate the bike and have both parties prove that the bike is theirs in a court of law but the pigs won't do that cause that's too much work for a 100-500 dollar bike. The police basically said I was shit out of luck and left me with the bike gang and said I had to resolve it on my own. I went to the Owner of Bully Deli and said if he didn't give my bike back I'd raise hell and blog all over town and to every newspaper that his place was a bastion of stolen bikes. bottom line is that bikes are stolen and there are no reprimands against these criminals. The guy who stole the pink bike not only got to ride it around on it for a couple months and have a story of how he duped the sucker but also got 50 bucks out of it. How's that for justice?
Go to your local precinct and try to register your bike- I tried three times and the officer in charge was always "on the phone" or "at lunch".
It's a good thing taxpayers subsidize the Alphabet City projects or we wouldn't have such wonderful examples of diversity enriching our lives!
While I'm glad Green got his bike back, the praise heaped on the "bike community" sounds a little naive. I can't help but wonder if the threat of mob violence prior to the arrival of police coerced the man into giving the bike back. The "bike community" I know isn't one that is known for it's peaceful attitude, it's filled with adrenaline junkies who have a chip on their collective shoulder and I've seen more fights in the streets with bike enthusiasts than any other group of people.
The tard give his bike over to a guy who simply asks for it, then buys it back for $50 in a deal engineered by the police.
How fucking stupid can you get. I can easily see another bike riding fag like babyhitler fall for such a scam.
PS - I thought the word "homies" was used by los angeles gangs in the 90s. I seriously doubt anyone except for over the hill white guys trying to establish a "street cred" uses that term anymore.
But then again, I'm just an objectivist anti-social person who will stand aside while an elderly women gets raped and eat a bag of doritos while watching it.
This guy got punked...twice and once with the cops blessing.
How does one get punked that badly? Seriously, how do you?
BTW, if you detest that "eyesore ‘white text on black background’ format" of the blog and too many other sites, that's another good thing about Macs. A simple Ctrl-Alt-Command 8 key combination inverts all colors on the screen. Not that even black text on white background is enough to make me slog through his rambling self-congratulatory post.
[20] But then again, I'm just an objectivist anti-social person who will stand aside while an elderly women gets raped and eat a bag of doritos while watching it.
So tell us something we don't know.
stupid brakeless hipster bike
Hey, Citizen Skein, just cause I have a lot of friends who help me and you sit alone in the dark and comment on Gothamist. You can borrow my wallet any time you want, but it won't help a loser like you have any friends.
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Michael Green.
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oh and one more thing...HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHHHHAAAAAA I GOT MY BIKE BACK. THATS RIGHT this hipster poser got his bike back! NA NA NA NA NAH!
Master of Ceremonies...
EAT A DICK.
At the end of the day, fuck Michael Green.
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Fuck you too. Hope you never need anything. Live alone.
I live in that neighborhood and trust me, those guys aren't Mexican. I say this as a Mexican. There are very few of us in that area. Trust me, we can smell our own.