They left all the parts lying there on the sidewalk and nobody walked away with the other remaining parts? 
I’ve had a comms aerial stolen from my bike and another deliberately snapped off in the space of a few months - and I very rarely leave it unattended away from my garage. I guess I’m asking for trouble since they’re so easy to unscrew but I honestly can’t imagine what anyone would do with it. The really stupid (but fortunate thing) is that with the RZX being so basic it would be quicker to hotwire and steal the whole friggin bike than to unscrew and dismount the antenna.
I’m sure there’s something in the Taiwanese genes that’s constantly shouting ‘it’s not screwed down so I must have it!’ - like the way workmen keep stealing my dog’s water bowl for whatever nefarious activites they get up to with bowls. I’ve since swapped my beloved whip antenna for a smaller version that’s less noticeable and it hasn’t been pinched yet. It really bugs me that I have to do that though because it cuts my range in half. Wankers.
Well, I’ll tell you, in South Africa they’ll definitely just steal the whole damn thing. If it isn’t bolted to the ground it’s gone.
Although in Taiwan it does seem that petty vandalism (intentional and unintentional) does seem to be the order of the day. No one seems to bat an eyelid at moving your scooter into an inconvenient spot so as to make space for theirs, park their scooter on top of yours (and thereby scratching it) and my pet hate; bumping your mirrors out of focus…
My scooter is 12 years old and after the last accident I refused to fix the panelling. It still runs like a bomb but looks like a piece of crap. However, now no one buggers with it, and if they did it would be hard to notice.
Still, I would like to get a new one but thieves and vandals have deterred me so far.
Not scooter-related, but still theft-related.
About two weeks back some wanker stole my wife’s brand new pair of leather boots from right in front of our school. Friggin’ boots! Both of us were in classes so there was no one to watch the front door and the dick walked up to the boot rack, snagged her boots and pissed off. My security camera caught it all but the angle was just that little bit wrong to get a clear look at his face. Joke’s on him though cause they only cost 500 bucks.
Stolen, stolen ? Nah, you still do not understand Taiwanese culture. It is called sharing.
I had my motorcycle broken apart piece by piece in my own underground parking lot simply because, in my landlady’s words, I was parking it in the wrong place.
The prick kept on breaking off the chrome turn signals, front and back. They wouldn’t actually break them right off, but they would crack the conecting section just enough so it would break off later, making it look like I had broken it elsewhere by someone bumping against my bike. The turnsignals on the Kymco 150 stick out enough to assume that is what happened.
I was going crazy figuring out how this consistent damage was taking place so I got all four of them fixed before parking my bike in the underground. Sure enough, I go to start my bike two days later and one or two of them were broken. Mystery solved.
After I complained to the manager, she indeed told me it was because I was parking my bike in an area otherwise intended for bicycles, even though there were only three bicycles and a lot of empty space. I told her I parked it there because it’s too big to park in a scooter stall.
I also asked the obvious: If I was parking in the wrong area, why not just tell me and I’ll gladly move it. And why does parking in the wrong place justify, petty, irritating vandalism? :loco:
I had a local with me, helping with the translation and he said that she just ignored the question. :bravo: