My dear bicycle was stolen tonight, so sad (+police's help) BIKE FOUND

[MrWhy]

It was. My lock sometimes doesn’t lock properly. But you can’t tell unless you try to unlock it.

[bdog]

Have you seen a guy that looks like “Billy Idol rebooted” in your area? There was this bleach haired bike thief around a while back.

[RickRoll]

@MrWhy

When she gave me the report she said with her sweet voice “this is my name” and then “that’s the telephone number”. Of course it’s the police station’s phone number.

Was it she?

[ryanx]

@MrWhy

That’s it. I wanted to ask the female officer her cellphone number. But seemed inappropiate and I am too fat and too poor anyways. All this took about two hours, I would say. 10 to 12.

A poorly written and entertaining crime/police story with a very funny bit at the end. I would read more from the author.

[marasan]

@ryanx

@MrWhy

That’s it. I wanted to ask the female officer her cellphone number. But seemed inappropiate and I am too fat and too poor anyways. All this took about two hours, I would say. 10 to 12.

A poorly written and entertaining crime/police story with a very funny bit at the end. I would read more from the author.

Is this perhaps the beginning of a novel, a lifelong relationship, or both? OP. We want more.

[deepshelter]

@MrWhy

While we are waiting they suggest I may have been drunk and don’t remember where I parked my bicycle

This is obviously the real answer. Taiwanese would never steal.
Hell even some people on here seem to think this.

[superking]

Sorry for your loss.
I had a bike stolen in London one morning. Filed a police report as soon as it happened. The next day I received a letter from the police saying they had closed the file already. You are basically just filing a report to get a crime number to give to your insurance.

[mad_masala]

haha, this made me laugh (as the haha indicated).

[MrWhy]

Update in the main post: I found the bike.

[Taiwan_Luthiers]

So where was it?

[Marco]

@MrWhy

Update in the main post: I found the bike.

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[MrWhy]

In front of the supermarket, in the middle of the sidewalk.

[Taiwan_Luthiers]

so it wasn’t stolen, you left it there by accident, or the thief took it and abandoned it there?

[MrWhy]

I don’t recall going to the supermarket yesterday night, my kid is sure I didn’t leaved the house.
So… Maybe I am sleepwalker, maybe both my kid and me have memory issues.
Maybe it was some random guy’s joke.
I don’t know, but happy to have found it. I really wasn’t in the mood of buying yet another bike.

[superking]

Inform the police. And congratulations.

[Dr_Milker]

@MrWhy

Maybe it was some random guy’s joke.

Maybe a pretty young orphan moved your bike in an attempt to catch your attention?

[MrWhy]

I daydream the police officer is an orphan.

[mad_masala]

maybe someone needed it for a ride. or maybe someone doesn’t want you to park it in that place.

[MrWhy]

One if the neighbors told me once I shouldn’t park in front of his apartment because that part was reserved for his car. I talked about that today in the police station and the office told me that I was right and the street is a public space.
But I didn’t park where he parks his car. So, that can’t be the reason.
Maybe some random guy moved the bike or maybe I really have bad memory.

[Taiwan_Luthiers]

If you care about it a lot though lock it, or better yet, bring it inside…

If the bike is more expensive than 10k new, keep it inside. It will be stolen no matter the lock you put on it.