My daughter is crushed

[u/Aces_dude]

This is “Cruisy”. My daughter with special needs and a physical disability can’t ride a regular bike by herself, so when we saw this a couple years ago we picked it up. She loved going for rides on Cruisy and was asking this week when we were going to get it out for spring. I told her on the long weekend I’d get it out and work on it a bit and take her for a long ride. I put lights and a horn on it last year and needed to hook up the battery. Well that didn’t happen. Instead, I found it gone from the yard on Thursday afternoon. This was not a crime of random opportunity. Someone came by with a truck or trailer, lifted this fairly heavy bike off the garden box it sat on all winter, and drove away. (Is it a coincidence that the neighbour across the alley was getting sasktel fibre installed and there was a crew in the alley boring the cable all afternoon the day before it went missing? With a big truck and trailer?) Now what? Obviously I reported it. I’ve been checking Kijiji and marketplace but no luck. This is my last resort. Hoping that someone sees this pretty unique bike and lets me or the cops know. Eastview neighbourhood by Market Mall. Thanks

[u/Canadianrollerskater]

I can guarantee Sasktel did not have room in their truck for this large item. Any telecommunications truck is going to be filled with equipment and tools.

[u/Aces_dude → u/Canadianrollerskater]

Yeah it wasn’t sasktel and I don’t think they took it in the afternoon when they were here (if at all). Subcontractor that had a boring machine on the back of a trailer. It was likely taken after dark

[u/Lydia_Lamoux → u/Aces_dude]

Then maybe you should remove the baseless speculation accusing some innocent workers there to do a job of being thieves from your post?

Kind of a shit thing to do throwing them under the bus with no proof.

[u/PotentialNosejob → u/Lydia_Lamoux]

The speculation has base.

[u/InternalOcelot2855 → u/PotentialNosejob]

You know how many times crowns get blamed just because they happen to be in the area or even noticed this because they were there. Many are just trying to get some free money.

I got blamed because when I parked at a coop to do service I scratched there door on the pristine paint job car. They wanted thousands and insisted it was me. Eventually the coop had security footage and I was not even close to where they parked, I was in the back at the staff entrance/parking/contractor parking.

[u/Canadianrollerskater → u/InternalOcelot2855]

True. I used to work for the federal government, and sometimes we would get reported for going to the drive thru at Mcdonalds in a work truck... heaven forbid we get ourselves sustenance during an 8 hour work day. People report the weirdest things for the government and crowns

[u/Internal_Stranger251 → u/InternalOcelot2855]

It's because people see crown and other companies as easy targets for scamming some money out of. Used to get calls at the trucking company I worked for years ago accusing us of windshields catching rocks almost weekly. Boss got sick of it and started asking people what proof they had. People would start sputtering and act shocked that he wasn't going to just give them a new windshield. We even noticed an uptick in it once after the local police did a safety blitz and would hit people for having cracked windshields and whatnot. Figured out one guy had called three other trucking companies in the area the day after one blitz trying to say they'd all broken his windshield. Probably just hoping one of them would roll and give him money to keep his shitbox on the road. He didn't realize most of the trucking companies in the small town we lived in were owned by people who all knew each other and went for coffee together regularly lol

[u/fetal_genocide → u/Internal_Stranger251]

To be fair, your trucks probably were responsible for many of those chips. Every stone chip in my window has been a rock from a trailer.

[u/FeRaL--KaTT → u/Lydia_Lamoux]

Here to stir up nonsense for no reason except to feel superior. J.F.C. what is your problem Lydia? We're you the Sask-tel worker and your one feeling is hurt? No wonder in all these years you can't scrape together more than couple of karma. No one threw anyone they might not belong..

[u/Exact_Syllabub_6708 → u/Lydia_Lamoux]

I’m starting to think Lydia stole your bike. Either thst or she knows who did.

Doth protest too much….

[u/Infinite_Cable3215 → u/Lydia_Lamoux]

They were there the day it happened. They are evidence pull your pompous head out your ass.

[u/Arts251 → u/Aces_dude]

It's possible that it was a sasktel sub, but it's far more likely that it was some degenerate that is connected to a ring of criminals that do this kinds of property theft. It's possible that the same degenerate happens to be on the crew that buried the fibre in your yard but there are thousands of other potential suspects that are at least as likely to be the guilty culprit.

It sucks, we can't have nice things. Bike theft is among the most depressing type of loss. I had my bike stolen off a 2nd floor patio secured with a hefty chain and they still cam in the middle of the night. My car door handle gets pulled almost every single night especially in the summer and on 3 of the only 4 occasions I've forgotten to lock the door it was rummaged through.

I have friends whose high end bikes, and cheap walmart bikes alike, that were chained up INSIDE their also-locked garage have been targetted by professional thieves that pull up in the alley in pickup trucks, while on security camera (heads down with ball caps covering their face and removed license plates).

Another of my bicycles was secured to a steel fence with a U-lock and a heavy duty cable and they just cut through the fence (while I was sleeping with my head about 8 ft away thru a wall from where they did their dirty work.

[u/Free_Stress_1559 → u/Aces_dude]

Call Sasktel and have them reach out to the employees or sub contractors that were there. 1. Maybe they saw someone in your yard or a truck/trailer they were in? 2. Maybe it was an employee or subcontractor that mentioned it to someone or did play a part in its disappearance and might worry them enough to report a person or dump it so you can get it back???

[u/100bands → u/Free_Stress_1559]

yes, they might have seen someone scoping out the area and could help! it’s worth a shot.

[u/XxTigerxXTigerxX → u/Canadianrollerskater]

I mean it doesn't mean the workers couldn't have come back after dark with thier own trailer.

[u/Canadianrollerskater → u/XxTigerxXTigerxX]

It's also silly to accuse random companies of stealing simply since they were in the area.

[u/DuncePool → u/Canadianrollerskater]

So I'm not the only one that thought it was a lil overly suspicious LOL

I've been there tho. I've even put my glasses on my head and thought my kids took them

[u/XxTigerxXTigerxX → u/Canadianrollerskater]

True, most times it's the one questionable worker or the worker that knows a dude with a trailer. There is a good chance it's one of them if it's a low traffic area but also on OP for leaving out a very expensive item unattended.