DNA trail led cops to unlikely bike theft suspect

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no, Mary; you're right. I was being callous in an attempt to be funny. I surely didn't wish him dead.

oh, I know that f'sure, Mimi...and my native New Yorker sarcasm is always at the ready, so I have been known to say similar things...am glad for the opportunity to say what I feel here though and appreciate your response.
Thanks! (and hi to RD the yummy pie man too!)

[Trek420]

I've not quite forgotten the feeling of going downstairs for a much needed ride (at the time my Dad was very ill, died shortly after, my "partner" of 11 years had just dumped me) ... and finding my bike gone.

So I hate bike crooks with a passion. There's no telling at the time what I would have done had I encountered the perp Maybe I would have behaved (called cops) as there's no TE access in prison

But this is someones son, family. It's tragic, really. He did not deserve this.

[Lifesgreat]

um, you left out an important piece of information. He's dead!

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...le_thefts.html

Longview podiatrist charged in bicycle thefts commits suicide

I had begun to tell DH about the story, but hadn't gotten to this part before a distraction came. Later, DH was reading the obituaries and said "This Dr. was young, I wonder what happened to him." It was Dr. Bos. I told him the rest of the story.

Very sad.

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I had begun to tell DH about the story, but hadn't gotten to this part before a distraction came. Later, DH was reading the obituaries and said "This Dr. was young, I wonder what happened to him." It was Dr. Bos. I told him the rest of the story.

Very sad.

I agree, Lifesgreat, it's very, very sad...and the link to the AP article that you posted gave some more information about the whole sorry situation surrounding what my rant has been about: why the he!! was he left alone, after 2 very recent suicide attempts?? And a quick flashlight toward the bed, even if every half hour, between 8PM and 6AM? That was it??? Unbelievable!

"...A hospital spokesman said Sunday he could not comment on procedure with patients who have previously attempted suicide.

One of the nursing assistants who found the body told police she last saw Bos alive when he went to bed at 8 p.m. Friday. She said she checked on him every half hour by opening the door and shining a flashlight on his bed without knowing that pillows and blankets had been arranged on the bed to resemble a person sleeping.
The ruse went undetected until she went to awaken him at 6 a.m. Saturday. Failing to find Bos in an initial search of the room, the nursing assistant got a colleague to join her and they discovered his body hanging in the bathroom, a leather belt around his neck, police wrote..."

If there's ever a reason that I'm riding or in that area for any reason, I'll be sure to have a signed/witnessed note on me directing that, if injured, that I be taken far away from that so-called hospital/patient care facility!