Bike Stolen in Irving Park...Please help me find my bike.

Hi, my bike was stolen Monday, April 9th between 5-7am from my apartment. Wondering if maybe you fellow bikers can keep an eye out for me?

It's a Bianchi, Nirone, size 46, women's bike, mostly white with Teel accents, great condition. At the time it was stolen it had a white bike light on the top of the bike and taillights.

I have the serial number and receipt. I'm searching around the city, but some extra eyes would help too!! Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Justin B Newman on April 3, 2013 at 9:50am

All pawn shops and second hand stores are required to document the purchase. The police just chose not to require Cash America to turn it over. There's no obligation for them to check the Registry -- doing so is just a way to protect themselves from buying something they have to then turn over to the police. Note that _today_ all that documentation has to be submitted to a central database. Before, it was slips of paper mailed to the police. If this were post-October, I'd track it down. Because it's from the paper days, it's probably a pain w/o a cooperating officer.

Permalink Reply by Jennifer Vacanti on April 3, 2013 at 4:19pm

I appreciate all the comments and there's a lot of issues here that have been brought up. Would it be worth writing the Alderman? Who else would it be worth writing to about these things? I would like to find out more about my bike situation. Anyone have any suggestions on who to contact?

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 3, 2013 at 4:27pm

Didn't you have a pretty good idea of who the person was who took this -a friend/acquaintance of one of your roommates or someone like that?

If you have a name, and the pawn shop has a name it sure would be nice if the cops would get their asses out of the donut shop and do their damn jobs. 

1zt7hr8qm0y90Permalink Reply by 1zt7hr8qm0y90 on April 3, 2013 at 9:13pm
OMG you poor victim. I would rather have my car stolen than my bike. Isn't anything sacred? This is the major reason why I ride a big box bike. It's cheap, nobody wants it and it serves multiple purposes instead of being specialized but bike theft regardless of its value is something I have a hard time dealing with and the more popular bikes get the more this will be a problem. Horse theives were shot on sight. I hope you find it.
1zt7hr8qm0y90Permalink Reply by 1zt7hr8qm0y90 on April 3, 2013 at 9:21pm
Like I said. Cops are worthless scumbags, at least in major cities. In the boonies it's a different story. Let's beat the crap out of a 110 pound bar maid. HEY, I'm an off duty Chicago cop and I can do what I want.
Permalink Reply by Matt Talbert on April 4, 2013 at 9:44am

Jennifer, I would definitely contact your alderman. They have an incentive to keep you happy since you are a voter. When I had issues with people parking in the bike lane on my commute to work, I called my alderman and she got the Dept. of Revenue out there to ticket violators. Alderman have tons of power, give yours a call and explain this story.

1zt7hr8qm0y90Permalink Reply by 1zt7hr8qm0y90 on April 4, 2013 at 3:53pm
What decade were you born in? No polititian cares about your bike, regardless of cost. Motorized vehicles and pedestrians have clout but bicycles are invisible in spite of the fact that they are, regardless of price the most efficient mode of travel. Call your Aldrerman. How is that accomplished? What special connections do you have? Go through the prompts, push a button and if you get to talk to a real live human being they have been trained to answer any question with "I'm sorry" or "I don't know" or "nobody by that name works here" or "we fired that person." It's not the 1970's anymore. Too bad. And you've burned precious minutes as opposed to a five minute conversation with a real live person with knowledge. Too bad. What about those that can't comprehend how to use a computer and I am one of those people so how do I respond to this thread? Human nature says "why didn't you do anything about it" as well as "it's not worth doing anything about it so why did you get involved." Either way, whatever works for the one you are relating to but certainly not you. It's yes if I want it to be and no if I don't want it to be. Take your choice and try to figure out the human race. If the human race were easy to figure out than the human race would be evolved and stable. Are you proud to be human? I'm not.
Permalink Reply by dan brown on April 5, 2013 at 2:59am

Jennifer - I agree with Matthew here. I would also recommend meeting with the Alderman or someone

from his/her staff (sometimes it's better to establish a relationship with a competant staff member

(for future issues) since the Alderperson is OOO quite a bit). It really is their role to serve the electorate.

They have a vested interest in keeping their finger on the pulse of all activity in their respective wards;

citizens and businesses. Pawn shops included. I feel that pawn shops especially need to be monitored

since they seem to operate on "the fringe" so to speak.

 

just my $.02

 

DB

Permalink Reply by Jennifer Vacanti on April 5, 2013 at 5:28am

Thanks Matt and Dan, I definitely agree it's worth a shot. I already sent over an email and I'm going to stop by their office this week. Keep you posted.

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