Convicted of theft for picking up abandoned OBike

yyy · November 3, 2019, 5:53pm

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SunWuKong · November 8, 2019, 11:14am

Are you in the slammer yet?

Taiwan_Luthiers · November 8, 2019, 11:15am

No, I’m supposed to get a committment notice or something and then I can apply for community service or something.

SunWuKong · November 9, 2019, 4:10am

They’re taking their time about it.

Taiwan_Luthiers · November 9, 2019, 4:43am

Not sure why they would hurry. I’m not in jail or under any control order. They rather get my money or work than jail because jail costs money and are very overcrowded.

Taiwan_Luthiers · January 9, 2020, 5:27am

Final update:

I reported in as ordered and paid the 182,000NT fine. Case closed.

Thank you for those of you who helped me through this difficult time.

BiggusDickus · January 9, 2020, 5:31am

Ouch! That’s a big hit to the wallet.

Taiwan_Luthiers · January 9, 2020, 5:34am

It’s cheap compared to jail and whatever else that it comes with (like losing everything).

BiggusDickus · January 9, 2020, 5:35am

How’s the bike?

Taiwan_Luthiers · January 9, 2020, 5:37am

bike was confiscated, but honestly if someone gave me a bike like this as a gift I wouldn’t even take it. The bike was cheap POS and is much harder to ride than any other bike (like it has some stuck bearing or something). Maybe it works as exercise bike or something but U Bikes are like really easy to ride compared to this POS.

Basically the company was run like shit.

eCanada · January 9, 2020, 5:37am

Too soon

Dr_Milker · January 9, 2020, 5:39am

You could’ve bought a really nice bike for NT$182,000.

slawa · January 9, 2020, 5:46am

You should thank him for funding the effective police work in Taiwan. /s

Brianjones · January 9, 2020, 5:50am

Hope the police officers are happy with their productivity.

Dr_Milker · January 9, 2020, 5:51am

True. With lucrative “crimes” like this and all the traffic cameras, they’ve basically got a license to print money.

slawa · January 9, 2020, 5:51am

I bet they don’t collect the abandoned bikes on purpose.
It’s a profitable racket it seems. (Same with some leaving money in front of security cameras and calling police if someone picks it up)

Now next time @Taiwan_Luthiers can bring abandoned obike he finds to police’s lost and found. So they will not be able to charge him. If nobody claims the bike after a couple of months he can legally keep it.

Taiwan_Luthiers · January 9, 2020, 5:57am

technically if you call 1999 they will collect it.

Seems people were throwing them into creeks on purpose.

Now I got a banjo to fix. Has anyone tried to play a sad song on a banjo?

slawa · January 9, 2020, 5:58am

I have no sound here but how’s that?

marasan · January 9, 2020, 6:05am

Dr_Milker · January 9, 2020, 6:06am

I always found that to be a pretty upbeat tune.