grrr!!!!

**gingerale** · 10-11-2008, 11:26 AM

That pisses me off so bad! I'm so sorry someone did that to you. And I really hope karma comes back to bite them in the butt!!

Here's wishing you get your bike back.

**Pax** · 10-11-2008, 12:40 PM

That just sucks UKE.

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 10-11-2008, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by uk elephant

My bike has just been stolen!! I had stopped at the orchard at the back of the college where I work to pick some apples. This orchard is surrounded by a fence and a hedge and is totally overgrown. I thought it'd be out of the way enough so I tucked my bike in between some trees and started picking. When I found my way out of the trees again half an hour later, the bike was gone.

I know this sounds like a dumb question but....are you absolutely sure your bike is not still there hidden between trees in that overgrown orchard? Could there be any way that you confused the spot where you left it? Old orchards can be pretty maze-like.
Sounds nuts, but might be worth a second trip back to check carefully.

**Trek420** · 10-11-2008, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl

Sounds nuts, but might be worth a second trip back to check carefully.

That's more like something her aunt (me) would do, did. "Help! Police! My car's been stolen. I parked it right .... oops. Never mind. I got on at the other train station today"

I'd want to know if anyone nearby saw the perp riding the bike away.

**Geonz** · 10-11-2008, 02:45 PM

Hoping for the best... grrrring with you

**uk elephant** · 10-12-2008, 05:19 AM

Happy update! Just had a call from a colleague who had a call from another colleague who had found the bike in the orchard and is now dropping it off in the building where I work! And everything was there. But the bike was definitely not there when I declared it missing, or yesterday when I went back to look for it. Wonder where it has been all this time....But as long as it is back and all the contents are back, I won't worry about where it's been off to. Maybe it just got bored of waiting for me and went off for a little joy ride on its own.

**OakLeaf** · 10-12-2008, 05:27 AM

Phew! Glad this story had a happy ending!

**Blueberry** · 10-12-2008, 05:42 AM

Truly bizarre, but a happy ending! Wonder if someone saw it and assumed it was stolen and planned to bring it back to you all along?

CA

**Duck on Wheels** · 10-12-2008, 07:53 AM

Talked to UK on the phone a couple hours ago. Apparently the guy who found the bike saw the bike, horizontal in the overgrown orchard, but didn't see 5'10" red-headed UK-E picking apples a few trees further in.

Anyhoo, good samaritan that this near-sighted guy was, he thought "Oh Dear! Somebody's joy-ridden a bike and dumped it in the old orchard. I'd better lock it up safely back on campus." Happily, it's a small campus and there was a mutual acquaintance who put the two stolen bike stories together. So UK-E will be reunited with her bike tomorrow, and faith in humanity is restored. Or at least, that was the theory as of 2 hours ago. Could be there actually was a joy-ride and dump event between the two stories, or something else entirely. But the outcome is good all the same.

**Tri Girl** · 10-12-2008, 08:01 AM

Hooray for happy endings!!!

**sgtiger** · 10-12-2008, 10:16 AM

Yippee skippee! Glad it came back!

**gingerale** · 10-12-2008, 01:16 PM

Great news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**SouthernBelle** · 10-12-2008, 02:52 PM

I somehow thought this bike would turn up. I'm psychic!

**bmccasland** · 10-12-2008, 03:35 PM

Yaaaa!!!!

and I'm convinced that sometimes our bikes take rides without us, to teach us lessons.

Let's hear it for the nearsighted good hearted guy who tried to keep UK-E's bike safe. I supposed she should have been singing heartedly while picking the apples, that way people would know she was there!

**Aggie_Ama** · 10-12-2008, 03:41 PM

What an amusing story, here he thought he was doing something so great and instead he caused stress. At least it all ended well.

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