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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
A Vancouver woman earned widespread notoriety Tuesday for stealing back her bicycle from a thief after seeing it advertised online.
Kayla Smith, 33, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that her Can$1,000 (US$950) bicycle was taken from a rack in Vancouver's oceanfront Olympic Village -- constructed to host athletes during the 2010 Winter Games and now a bustling neighborhood. Smith filed a police report. The next day, she spotted an ad on the classified advertisements website Craigslist for a bike that looked suspiciously like hers, so she contacted the seller and arranged to meet him in a nearby McDonald's parking lot, posing as a buyer. She told the CBC she immediately recognised her bike, with personalised stickers on the frame. "Holy crap this is my bike," Smith told the public broadcaster. "Like what do I do? And then I was just, like, play dumb." The woman asked the seller if she could ride it around the parking lot and took off. As news of her daring dash spread online, police cautioned against confronting thieves, but her actions continued to draw praise. "Was it smart? Probably not. Was it badass as all Hell? *** straight!" said a comment on the reader section of CBC's website.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
Looks like it worked out better for her than it did for O.J.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
LOL
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
I used to love watching "The Saint." Simon Templar probably would have done it a bit differently - first steal the bike back and later steal the thief's car, paint it, and sell it back to him.
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Andrew Zuber Inner circle Los Angeles, CA 3014 Posts |
My brother in-law in Seattle did the same thing. Set the guy up, met him by the ferry coming in from Bainbridge Island, took it for a "test ride" and met a friend in his van around the block. They loaded up and took off. Pretty awesome.
The thief traced his number and burned his house down that night but at least he got his bike back. (Just kidding.)
"I'm sorry - if you were right, I would agree with you." -Robin Williams, Awakenings
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