Stolen bike recovered -?

[Manky Monkey]

I had an interesting encounter earlier this evening.
Nipped out to take a bag of rubbish out to the bins & found 2 very large gentlemen in jeans & bomber jackets lurking in the communal hallway of my block of flats.
Do you know anything about that motorbike outside?
Err, no. It appeared about a week ago. Haven't seen it move since, but I did see someone riding it locally the day it turned up here.
So you don't know which flat it belongs to then?
No. Sorry.
Cos it's mine.

Large Gentleman number 1 said it'd been nicked from his place a week ago & he'd been tipped off it was here.
I'm glad I didn't know any more about it cos I think they'd turned up to have a quiet word with the miscreant who'd taken it.
Presumably it was pinched & dumped here. No-one would be daft enough to park a stolen bike outside their own front door, even in Basingstoke -would they?
A third large gentleman was waiting outside in a van & they loaded the bike up. I did say perhaps I ought to be asking for some sort of ID before they took it away, but number 1 said that's my van, with my company name on the side. Any problems, you know where to find me.
Fair enough. I wasn't going to argue with him, or his mates.
If they find out who took it I don't think they'll be bothering to call the Police.

[VALLEYSBOY]

just check yer lock up m8

[trikerpete]

If they find out who took it I don't think they'll be bothering to call the Police.

Thats the way to do it at least you'd know that justice had been served !!!!!!!!!

[Firery Fred]

If they find out who took it I don't think they'll be bothering to call the Police.

Thats the way to do it at least you'd know that justice had been served !!!!!!!!!

No nice little trip abroad then,string the little b**tards up

[Plainy Janie]

they could have stolen the van, in order to steal the bike!!! Get my drift?

[Manky Monkey]

Yeah, that did occur to me! The van was worth a damn sight more than the bike though, (a tatty old XJ Yam), & I doubt they'd have bothered hanging around to make themselves known to the residents.