Bike Stolen in Uptown this afternoon (9/3/10)

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Permalink Reply by Vilda on September 3, 2010 at 5:13pm

Did you report this on the stolen bike registry? Was it a white guy in a hoodie, black guy with a van?

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Permalink Reply by Banita on September 3, 2010 at 5:36pm

Haven't put it up on the registry yet ... The police report number is at home and I'm not. All the police and security guy could make out from the video was that the thief was male, arrived on foot and had a backpack.

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Permalink Reply by BalloonBiker on September 3, 2010 at 7:34pm

I saw the blue previa of bianchi brava theft in the uptown neighborhood this afternoon. Perhaps a connection?

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on September 4, 2010 at 12:16am

We can add the serial number and other info to the registry later-- please place a report ASAP.
If someone sees this bike tomorrow morning they will be unable to contact you.
http://stolenbike.org
Please remember no-one here has any way to contact you unless you've already friended them.

Also, we get 10 or more reports on heavy days on the registry- we're slipping back into a new chainlink forum thread for every stolen bike-- there must be a better solution. Some folks (e.g. Jami) have been corteous to use the "do this when your bike gets stolen" thread of their own volition as a courtesy to other readers. Other fora, like chifg, have one stolen bike thread that gets added on to. As long as bounce-to-top is the default forum view it doesn't seem much less advantageous than starting a new thread.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on September 4, 2010 at 1:11am

Tired-- previous post a bit of a mess, sorry.
Also see:

http://chicago.stolenbike.org/node/190235

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Permalink Reply by Brendan Finucane on September 4, 2010 at 3:36pm

sorry to hear about your bike. i had the same experience two days ago. we should all remain vigilant. thanks howard for your help!

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