HELP!

I wish they'd have left them there and let you sit in a tree stand nearby.....
 
Congrats on getting them back.
 
Glad you got them back but I still hope the ba$tards break a leg running from the Cops. I hate thieves.
 
So first off - so happy for you Woody!
And kudos to the Thomasville cops. See, they aren't all just out to f%ck with people and write tickets...

ProbablyBroke said:
^ I feel like to jack three bikes, you must show up prepared with a game plan. these will pop up as specific as they are. My friend is a bike hound, I've put him on it. Sorry to hear it tho.
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BIGWOODY said:
A good ways into the woods he found all the bikes laid over behind a bank, as though travel arrangements might be being made.
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I stand by my statement. Just a random break-in, they got lucky and then had to figure out WTF to do.
Happens a lot more than you'd think, I think you guys are giving your average meth head crook way too much credit, and Woody's friends too little.
 
I have never been so mad & then happy in the same thread.....just saw this, very happy to hear you got your bikes back so soon!!!
 
Holy cow what a day. After I got all the bikes loaded up , back to my house and secure I got a call from an officer asking if any of my gloves were missing. I checked and said yes several pair, all were Fox black with orange knuckle guards. He said I'm looking at them in this car we just stopped. The cops watched the area where the bikes were stashed and sure enough they came back for them. The officer approached and asked if he could look in their trunk, they said no, he got a warrant after I went down there and Id'ed my gloves through the window. An hour or so later a search warrant showed up and the trunk was popped revealing two of my helmets and lots of my other riding gear.There were drugs and a gun in the car also. The driver was a girl 18 and three passengers, male 25-30 years old. The drivers mother is a probation officer in Tville. Her mom arrived and covered her face when she saw me saying "you don't recognize me do you?". She is one of my customers at my shop in Greensboro, I've worked on their Mercedes for several years, I was embarrassed for the woman. She told me she's tried and tried and doesn't know what to do. I told her I had kids and I was a dumbass kid once. But at 18 if she's tried helping her with no luck then the best thing she could do is leave her in jail, sell her car and cut her off. I said you're at a crossroads, the decision of what to do is on you, keeping helping her and the behavior will repeat itself. I also told her the same thing had been done to me when I was about 18 and it was the best thing that ever happened to me, knowing my financial safety net was gone and I was on my own. As I sat in the police car waiting for the warrant the officer ran the other 3's info, from what I saw on the screen they were already beyond help, multiple felonies, jail, prison etc…If the first officer wouldn't have decided to search the woods right away they would have collected the bikes and been gone, thank god for a cop not just writing this off as a tough shit case for me. I will be making sure that guy and his family get a meal on me.
 
Like but don't like. Shitty situation but really glad the perpetrators will be held accountable.
 
Whoa, what a cool ending to such a shitty situation.

They'll get sent back to jail for a while, then the cycle will continue. The girl is likely the only one who can be turned around, and that's only if she can cut all ties to those losers and any other shared acquaintances.

It has to be about the drugs, because why else would a random 18 year old girl get mixed up with guys like that?
 
BIGWOODY said:
I will be making sure that guy and his family get a meal on me.
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How did he figure it out? I mean, does it make sense geographically or something? Leave out the back of your property, follow this creek a ways, come out over here at this road, etc?
 
shawn said:
How did he figure it out? I mean, does it make sense geographically or something? Leave out the back of your property, follow this creek a ways, come out over here at this road, etc?
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Pretty much, down a hill to a wooded area that's low lying. One of the officers said he knew what a KX500 was and there was no way someone was going to start one without being big and wearing a boot. He figured if they didn't load them that night , they might be stashed in the woods. He was right. All of the officers involved said I needed to go buy a lottery ticket . Thefts never seem to come together this easily. Everything was recovered and arrests were made within hours of it happening. I was also amazed that the officer working the night shift payed close attention to my entrance door on the garage and beat on my door at 6:30 this morning to tell me it had been opened in the last few hours suspecting a break. These officers are the same ones I've witnesses foot patrolling my hood when I've been working really late in my garage, that too was amazing to me after living in all areas of Greensboro and never seeing that.
 
When I first read your post my first thought was, "How odd that a cop noticed that and knocked on the door to tell you"

Then when they were found, my first thought was Inside Job?

Im distrustful of police in general, though and didnt post those thoughts at the time because I figured it would derail your thread.

Glad you got your crap back and hopeful it is a pivot point in these folks lives.
 
Dude you got some good brothers in blue up in your hood. But it is entirely true that a few more hours and likely you would have been SOL. My Mom got hit real bad after my Dad died. Worst thing it did was ruin her feelings of security at home. PLAIN as day the officers told her if nothing turns up in a few short hours chances are the trail and case goes cold. Then the only chance is community and a stupid random mistake. Every time I see something odd or hear about local, or in this case a internet acquaintance, getting robbed I share the crap out out of it. Community is the first best defense, then the boys in blue. I am very happy your stuff turned up. Your advice to the mom was spot on....
 
Ron said:
Glad you got your crap back and hopeful it is a pivot point in these folks lives.
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This.
Sucks for sure that you had to go through this, but maybe this will actually be good for that young lady in the long run.
 
Ron said:
When I first read your post my first thought was, "How odd that a cop noticed that and knocked on the door to tell you"

Then when they were found, my first thought was Inside Job?
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Tuesday morning at 2:30 am my wife wakes me up and says there's a car at the end of our driveway and it looks like someone is at the back of the enclosed trailer. This is not the first time she has said this. Usually it's someone turning around and she's a busybody peeking out the windows worrying me about it. I got up went downstairs and sure enough there was a car that backed out ,drove by the front of my house, pulled in the neighbors driveway, backed out and drove back by my house stopping just beyond the property on the other side of a tall hedge row. I said call the police and tell them something doesn't look right and I proceeded back to bed. The police came, couldn't find the vehicle , next night nothing happened and I think my wife was overreacting and mildly crazy. The next night the night shift officer rolls by a few times , spotlights my garage (which is 50-75 yards from my house), lights up the back of my property from the street behind it and rolls through. So this officer had been watching my place, last night/early this morning, he was getting ready to end his shift and figured he'd check things out for the 2nd or 3rd time that night and noticed the garage door was open. It makes sense to me, but I agree with you, it almost seemed scripted and I'm a pretty heavy skeptic of everything and everybody.
My wife was right in her concern, maybe she'll read this sometime and see that I'm capable in some fashion to admit she's right, but she'll probably never see this.
 
Sound advice Greg. Some parents just don't have it in them to cut kids off and it often has bad effects on entire family's. I know all too well.

Stoked you got everything back:rockon:
 
BIGWOODY said:
Holy cow what a day. After I got all the bikes loaded up , back to my house and secure I got a call from an officer asking if any of my gloves were missing. I checked and said yes several pair, all were Fox black with orange knuckle guards. He said I'm looking at them in this car we just stopped. The cops watched the area where the bikes were stashed and sure enough they came back for them. The officer approached and asked if he could look in their trunk, they said no, he got a warrant after I went down there and Id'ed my gloves through the window. An hour or so later a search warrant showed up and the trunk was popped revealing two of my helmets and lots of my other riding gear.There were drugs and a gun in the car also. The driver was a girl 18 and three passengers, male 25-30 years old. The drivers mother is a probation officer in Tville. Her mom arrived and covered her face when she saw me saying "you don't recognize me do you?". She is one of my customers at my shop in Greensboro, I've worked on their Mercedes for several years, I was embarrassed for the woman. She told me she's tried and tried and doesn't know what to do. I told her I had kids and I was a dumbass kid once. But at 18 if she's tried helping her with no luck then the best thing she could do is leave her in jail, sell her car and cut her off. I said you're at a crossroads, the decision of what to do is on you, keeping helping her and the behavior will repeat itself. I also told her the same thing had been done to me when I was about 18 and it was the best thing that ever happened to me, knowing my financial safety net was gone and I was on my own. As I sat in the police car waiting for the warrant the officer ran the other 3's info, from what I saw on the screen they were already beyond help, multiple felonies, jail, prison etc…If the first officer wouldn't have decided to search the woods right away they would have collected the bikes and been gone, thank god for a cop not just writing this off as a tough shit case for me. I will be making sure that guy and his family get a meal on me.
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I'm stoked you got your bikes back! I had two dirt bikes stolen in the summer of 1999 and did not get them back, but they did catch the thief though. Do you think it is a coincidence that the daughter of one of your customers stole your bikes? My guess is the daughter of your customer has dropped her mom off at your work before to get her car worked on and saw one of your bikes at your shop a time or two. She then figured out where you live and decided to gamble on the bikes being in the garage at your house. I could be wrong, but it seems like too much of a coincidence.

Are you going to install a security system? I looked into it last Christmas when we had some vandalism, but never pulled the trigger. Just a couple of weeks ago a random woman walked about half way down our driveway while my wife was home. My wife saw her, and thinks she got close enough to the house to notice someone was home, then quickly turned around and high tailed it out of there. That incident has now rekindled my interest in getting a security system.
 
We have had a monitored security system since we built the house in 2002. Probably the best thing, and what you are really paying for, is the signs out front and on the windows. Cop buddy says that they rarely go to a successful break-in where there is a monitored alarm, with signs and stickers. Methheads are smart enough to go elsewhere, without a sign.

Total cost over the last 14 years has been about 4000 bucks. I think mine was paid for when we had been in the house for about a month. One of the construction guys had kept a key, and came back to the garage one evening to "check the wiring". (Moral of that story, too, is change the locks when you move in, even if it's a new house.)
 
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