Bike Thieves Are Evil

[tulip]

While, of course, none of your kids' friends would have done such a thing (...) certainly someone must have seen someone leave with the bike. Contact all the people who were there and ask them outright if they saw anyone take the bike.

Best of luck in getting it back.

[bmccasland]

While, of course, none of your kids' friends would have done such a thing (...) certainly someone must have seen someone leave with the bike. Contact all the people who were there and ask them outright if they saw anyone take the bike.

Best of luck in getting it back.

Not to be a wet rag, but one of your house guests could have done it. I've spent a few years around law enforcement (rode with a sheriff's deputy for 3 summer seasons, among other things), and it was truly amazing the number of "good kids" that got into trouble, often taking advantage of an opportunity. The parents were usually the "not my child, he/she is a good boy/girl." Yeah, right. Guess I'm a cynic. I'd talk to the kids that were at your house, as a group, and ask if anyone knows anything, please return the bike, stealing is wrong, it's a bad reflection on their organization, their school, etc.

[RoadRaven]

Gargh
That sucks - BIG TIME!

I'm with BMCC... I am a cycnic too... I wouldn't discount the friends immmediately. We like to think those we gather around us are without reproach but unfortunately it is not always so.

Hopefully it was none of them.
Def contact the invited ones.
Hopefully one of them might have a clue about when it went missing, or an idea of where it might be.
Perhaps just asking around might help it miraculously reappear on your doorstep...

[Geonz]

RIght... some times a "no questions asked" deal will let a 'good kid tempted' undo what he did.

Rats, the "bicycle as super hero" video that I first saw from team estrogen doesn't seem to be out there anymore. It was a real cutie about a bicycle that wreaks its own vengeance on a bicycle thief or ten...

[Triskeliongirl]

I realize that it may very well have been a guest. I did have my kids send an email to all in attendance, inquiring if someone may have "borrowed" it to get home and forgotten to return it (as another way of saying no questions asked), if they saw anything, etc. While I don't think it was someone in their inner circle, I know these kids well, it easily could have been a friend of a friend that was legitimately there.

Even though this wasn't MY bike (although it is a $ loss for us) I think I am so upset that it happened inside my own home.