Posted on 11/10/2011 10:54:42 AM PST by george76
A 25-year-old student who had her bike stolen turned the tables on the thief after finding it posted up for sale on Craigslist.
Kathryn Lucas from Colorado used the website to track down her stolen bike and posed as an interested buyer before stealing it back after going on a 'test-ride'.
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After filing a police report, she began searching Craigslist to see if the thief was trying to sell the bike.
Sure enough, Miss Lucas spotted a posting with a photo of her bike after recognising her bike’s red handle-bar tape and her water bottle holder.
She responded to the Craigslist advert, pretending to be an interested buyer and within minutes was contacted by someone calling himself 'Lance Robinson' who gave her an address.
On Sunday Miss Lucas went to the man’s apartment complex and asked if she could test ride the bike.
'I started riding it and knew it was my bike, so I just kept riding it''
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observe orient decide act
She’ll probably be thrown in prison.
If this had been done by a male, he would be in prison.
Stealing her own bike back? That’s a job for cops. She usurped the police. Imagine. Jail time coming. /sarc
WOW!!!
She needs to be in President Cain’s Cabinet - or President GingRICH’s.
What a treasure - instincts, guts and follow through!!!
Dumb criminal is right...18 y/o and looks 30...3-strikes career perp-in-training.
And the following morning she looks at the bike a little more closely and remarks, “Hey, that’s not MY bike.”
Bump
After notifying the police, we were told that if we prosecute, the thugs would, most likely, retaliate. Since all members of our household worked, we decided to follow his advice and leave well enough alone.
Very late in the evening of halloween, my son and two of his buddies, successfully retrieved the canoe. What were the original thieves to do, call the police? LOL
Lazamataz: This could be a great way to pick up girls. They come to your house even.
She is a vigilante and she deserves to be thrown in jail forever for not letting the government handle it / not handle it / mismanage the handling of it.
How DARE she steal her own bike back.....
/sarc
Gonna sound so stupid, but: “You GO, girl!!”
At least you didn’t say “Get your freak on girl!”
lol
Noted.
Huh?
One time when I was a little kid, some kid with a bike just like mine only all beat up switched bikes on me. I had to chase him for about 5 blocks on his bike and make him switch back by force. It seemed like a pretty huge deal to me at the time because he had 4 buddies with him and I only had one buddy with me.
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