Stolen Bike

jimbo · Guru

Stolen Bike

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Geez Jimbo that's terrible. Shirls is right though! Did you have it insured, electric bikes are pretty expensive?

-- Edited by Gerty Dancer on Saturday 31st of August 2013 09:33:24 AM

Happywanderer · The Master

Jimbo. Sorry to read your bike was stolen overnight. Some lowlifes around to do that to.you.
Go to the Echuca Police and report it. There can't be too many like that in Echuca, I've never seen one like it in Echuca.
Hope Shirls not to hard on you when you get home.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

What mongrels Jimbo - hope the police can find it for you!!!!

GaryKelly · Guru

Makes me vomit every time I hear a story like that about low life. May a big boot come down from the clouds and grind them into the dirt.

barina · Guru

That is just awful...Zero tolerance I say if they find the low life who took your bike...Keep yr chin up

barina · Guru

Glad to hear both bits of news...and thank goodness for CCT cameras..

-- Edited by barina on Saturday 31st of August 2013 04:53:02 PM

hako · Guru

That's pretty bad Jimbo and I'm very sorry that this has happened to you. Hope it all comes good.

jimbo · Guru

All's well.That ends well The Police delivered my bike to me at 11.00am today 31st August Looking at the Camera there was 4young girls and 4 young blokes at 1.10am this morning they were captured on the security Camera's Marj it was found dumped near the Emmylou Paddle steamer.I just found out that another resident had his Mountain Bike stolen bye the same bunch...Thanks everybody for your best wishes

Ps Shirls didn't pay out on me..She said "Oh Well. We'll get another one....What a women What a Police force.....

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Good news Jimbo -- and yes - re Shirl - what a woman!!!!! What a police force as well!!! Chain it up from now on though!!!

Happywanderer · The Master

Alls well that ends well Jimbo. Little scamps who should be home in bed.
Shirls a good woman.

hako · Guru

Great news Jimbo.

Sheba · Guru

Glad you got it back OK Jimbo.

Cheers,

Sheba.

landy · Guru

Good news Jimbo. My better half is always having a go at me because I insist on keeping every thing locked up but I have been robed before and found it a cruel teacher.
Landy

Bryan · Guru

Great news Jimbo. Must have been a relief.

herbie · Guru

Great news to read you got your bike back Jimbo, there sure is some low life out in this big beautiful country

just lets hope no damage was done to your bike.

Maybe they fell off it and did damage to them self.

jimbo · Guru

Thanks again fellow Nomads.....The bike is in bed with me now...I can feel the handle bars pressing into my side and I can stroke the seat when I want to make sure she's with me

freehazzas · Senior Member

We have two quite expensive bikes and we keep them on the back of our tray with locks on them at all times. Takes two mins to get them off, but they cant be easily pinched either. Glad you got it back.

jimbo · Guru

Some more last night Two blokes of the same mob were on the camera.at 1.00am..Talk about cheek

jimbo · Guru

The managment here at the C/P are going to stay up all night and morning hoping to catch the rats........One of the cabins has been tampered with and they figure they'll be back to take furniture and what ever else is not tired down

herbie · Guru

It makes one wonder why these low life have not been locked up,as the police must know who they are if they have been snapped on the security camera.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

herbie wrote:
It makes one wonder why these low life have not been locked up,as the police must know who they are if they have been snapped on the security camera.

Ditto. ???

milo · Guru

sorry to hear about your troubles jumbo,
trouble is no respect any more for other peoples property
and cause their probably kids nothing will be done...
any way glad you got your bike back..

QueenKombi · Senior Member

I read a headline late last week that said the Victorian justice system is overwhelmed by the number of cases it has to process.

It seems to me that there are not enough police to deal with minor crime, not enough magistrates to handle the massive workload and not enough gaols to handle the masses of delinquent teenagers anyway. This is a situation that will only get worse. Young people are bored. They have every "toy" imaginable and they get too much handed to them by parents and grandparents thanks to the excellent job the consumer marketeers have done to brainwash people into feeling guilty if they don't at least try to "keep up" with other family members, yet there's a deep sadness in these kids that makes them lash out at the perceived causes of their distress.

I work in mental health and used to work in "Child and Adolescent" and the situation is frightening. Some kids get so depressed over absolutely nothing that they fall into a cutting or suicidal pattern. They're desperately crying out for help, but you can't help them because even they don't know what's wrong, so they end up on "happy pills" that are often little more than a placebo and that doesn't last long either. They go off their medication and revert to anti-social behaviours or self destructive patterns again until they hit the "revolving door" of the mental health facilities! It's really frustrating. I'm glad I left that area to concentrate on helping the "aged" sector. Some of it relates to the early onset of dementia, but most of whom I work with are suffering situational depression.

I see two distinct types of depression, what I call situational depression and biological depression. The first has a situational cause, which is often what out teenagers suffer from. It can lead them to make bad decisions in life such alcohol and drug addiction and choosing the wrong crowd to hang around with. They feel there is no hope for them. Their anti-social behaviours makes them feel better than everybody else for a short space of time and they don't care about getting caught because they don't really care what happens to them. I've interviewed kids that would appear to have everything including a reasonable education and parents who hold down excellent careers. They want for nothing, yet they'll tell you they have no hope for a bright future!

I blame advertising and marketing for a lot of it. Kids need guidance, but for a lot of them it comes in the form of television and watching silly shows where the actors are all playing a role of being tough, or keeping up with the latest trends etc which is all clever marketing designed to make kids consume. This won't end until the corporate world is brought to heel. Governments won't do it. Resource depletion might, but it's not going to happen overnight and as I said, it's a situation that will get much worse before it even begins to get better.

Sorry for the rant. I feel great empathy for anyone who only wants to enjoy the rest of their lives by travelling and seeing our great land, only to have the stuff they've worked hard for stolen by the "lost generation!"
Aime.

-- Edited by QueenKombi on Monday 2nd of September 2013 01:46:13 PM

-- Edited by QueenKombi on Monday 2nd of September 2013 01:46:48 PM

Oxley · Veteran Member

herbie wrote:
It makes one wonder why these low life have not been locked up,as the police must know who they are if they have been snapped on the security camera.

Well if its like my experience with the local justice system in Taree, its all pointless.

A regular trip the court house will show that most of these people either don't fear reprisals or they have no respect for it, because they have nothing to lose.

The police know who they are, they know where to go first whether its a bike or a car, home stereo, but its pointless.

As most treat like the weekly family day out, someone from the community stands up as says "but he is a good boy, just fell in with the wrong crowd" or one of many clichéd responses, they get a slap on the wrist.

And on the rare occasion they do get a custodial sentence, they only spend a short time in, meet with "bro's and cussin's" and are back out a little more jaded at have's in the community, for some reason or another want their revenge, its a "if I'm not happy, why should anybody else be" sort of attitude.

Like I have said many a time, the pretend hard nuts walking around in their best thieving hoodie looking for trouble, they aren't hard, its the blokes that show up to the meat works at 5am for 25 years and take home minimum wage but still pay their rent etc, they are the tough ones.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Interesting, Queen Kombi. Food for thought, thank you.

Oxley · Veteran Member

I think Queen Kombi has hit the nail on the head.

I first read about society becoming victims of consumerism in Germaine Greer's famous book The Female Eunuch, but I also has much avoided relatives that believed owning more than you needed was greedy and sinful.

I suppose the idea didn't click with me until I found the minimalism and tiny house movements , and books like You Can Buy Happiness (and it's cheap): How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life by Tammy Strobel.

herbie · Guru

Call it what you like it is still thieving!! I know a lot of people who have very little but would never think of taking someone's belongings just because they have no means of owning what ever it maybe.

We all know right from wrong, the new catch phase for these thieving low life from the DO GOODERS is Opertunist.

The dog lady · Guru

herbie wrote:
Call it what you like it is still thieving!! I know a lot of people who have very little but would never think of taking someone's belongings just because they have no means of owning what ever it maybe.
We all know right from wrong, the new catch phase for these thieving low life from the DO GOODERS is Opertunist.

I agree Herbie. We've all had a bad experience but we don't all use it as an excuse for being a thief or other type of low-life s**t-head. Punishment should fit the crime. And it's precisely because our children are not having to face the consequences of their actions that they become low-lifes. You can't convince me that a 15yo is too young to know right from wrong. Am I the only one who had to ask before taking anything even at home when I was a kid? What's wrong with telling my 4yo granddaughter to ask before getting somthing from the fridge or pantry? I'm not gonna make her starve, but she can't just take whatever she wants and the time to teach her that is as young as possible. When did we stop expecting adult offspring to pay their own way even if the are still living "at home". when did it become OK for kids to demand things of their parents instead of requesting? Is it demeaning to say please? to work for and wait for what you want?

Of course I want my descendents to have an even better life than I did, but not at someone else's expense.

I have this awful fear that in wanting the best for our kids we've actually created a generation or two of spoiled, selfish brats!

landy · Guru

The dog lady wrote:

herbie wrote:
Call it what you like it is still thieving!! I know a lot of people who have very little but would never think of taking someone's belongings just because they have no means of owning what ever it maybe.
We all know right from wrong, the new catch phase for these thieving low life from the DO GOODERS is Opertunist.
I agree Herbie. We've all had a bad experience but we don't all use it as an excuse for being a thief or other type of low-life s**t-head. Punishment should fit the crime. And it's precisely because our children are not having to face the consequences of their actions that they become low-lifes. You can't convince me that a 15yo is too young to know right from wrong. Am I the only one who had to ask before taking anything even at home when I was a kid? What's wrong with telling my 4yo granddaughter to ask before getting somthing from the fridge or pantry? I'm not gonna make her starve, but she can't just take whatever she wants and the time to teach her that is as young as possible. When did we stop expecting adult offspring to pay their own way even if the are still living "at home". when did it become OK for kids to demand things of their parents instead of requesting? Is it demeaning to say please? to work for and wait for what you want?
Of course I want my descendents to have an even better life than I did, but not at someone else's expense.
I have this awful fear that in wanting the best for our kids we've actually created a generation or two of spoiled, selfish brats!

Well said DL there are far to many spoilt little brats out there Who grow up to be big spoilt brats, and it all starts with the conditioning they get from thier parents.
Landy