was stolen but i fetched it back

[blinkey501]

I bought myself a honda 90 J plate with only 6000 miles about 4 years ago for work
A nice exsample and a rare electric start one.
Then one morning my wife who at the time started work at 6 AM at worksop went out to work and noticed garage side door open.
you guessed it no honda 90 and i was gutted.
I did the usual thing like ring the police who were only too happy to help with a crime reference number. Thanks for f*** all came to mind.
Anyhow i text a few of my banger racing friends and 2 days later i recieved a phone call with the wareabouts of the 90.
I rang the police straight away and they didnt give a sh** has they were to busy solving real crime, motoring offences i would imagine.
So i had to do the right thing and fetch it back from harworth/Bircotes area near bawtry, and had to keep my nerve has there was 2 youths who did not want me to take it back.
Anyway having rode the bike back chain stretched, no ignition barrel indicators hanging off and no number plate, i rang the police back to tell them that i had been and fetched the bike.
And guess what the kind lady on the phone told me that a police person would come to look at the bike has they wanted to make sure it was mine.

This really pi**ed me off big time has i had done the police work, and they would have a solved crime to add to there statistics?
Mr plod arrived and i can say i had a lack of respect for this policeman has i had a few things to say to him about the lack of help i had from them and what I had to do to get my property back.

Any way the most expensive part i had to pay for was a new number plate at £15, and would like to thank crawfords motorcycles at scunthorpe for the second hand bits they supplied at very fair prices

Just one last note. before this happened i respected the police but with the information of the wareabouts of the bike and them not willing to help my opinion of the police is different to put it kindly

[D-Rider]

My sympathies.

.... and TBH the police have been doing a pretty good job of undermining my confidence in them too.
There have been a number of things over the years but I have just found out something else that is just about the final straw.

You will remember I was assaulted back at the end of July. The neighbours called the ambulance and also reported the reg of the car that my assailant drove off in.
The police reported to me several times that they couldn't make any progress with the investigation as although the police would have recorded all emergency calls routed to them, the ambulance service don't and because of that they don't have the reg number.
When they called me a few weeks ago to say that they were completely stopping any investigation I asked them to make a strong request that the ambulance service start to record calls like this as it would help the police as well as victims such as myself. The copper agreed this would be helpful but said he couldn't do this himself but would raise with his superiors.

.... then a few weeks ago there was an article in the local rag about a school kid for whom an ambulance was declined when they were injured ... and that the ambulance service had gone back through their recording of the call .... my wife saw this and thought things seemed a bit odd.
.... so I investigated on the internet and from what I could tell, it looks as though ALL emergency services have a statutory obligation to record emergency calls - though I've still to find chapter and verse of the actual requirement.

A few days ago I found out that the other half of a friend works in the local ambulance service .... and has now checked with control and confirmed that they DO record all calls.

So, clearly, the police were repeatedly lying to me.
Were they just being lazy?
Were they perverting the course of justice?
Have others been put at danger as the chap that injured me is free to carry on as though nothing had happened?

Complaints will be made .... and it's hard to see how the police will restore their credibility.
Now I know that it's unfair to tar every copper with the same brush but there seem to be more and more incidents in which their behaviour leaves much to be desired.

[randomsquid]

Glad you got it back more or less in one bit. But -

15 quid for a plate! When I lost the one on my C90 I made a new one out of the side of a crisp box.

[Willopotomas]

Glad to hear you managed to retrieve the bike yourself on a two level basis. Firstly, you've show them up to be the waste of tax payers credits that they are, and also saved yourself a fortune in recovery and storage fees. The bike would've been impounded until you came to fetch it netting them (and the impound) and nice little sum. Around here it's around £120 a DAY!

[blinkey501]

Glad to hear you managed to retrieve the bike yourself on a two level basis. Firstly, you've show them up to be the waste of tax payers credits that they are, and also saved yourself a fortune in recovery and storage fees. The bike would've been impounded until you came to fetch it netting them (and the impound) and nice little sum. Around here it's around £120 a DAY!

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And the numpties that had the bike would have had a slap on the wrist, which really annoys me. When i went to retreive my bike there was a scooter there with the same fate, ie no ignition or number plate etc which belongs to some other poor individual. I told the police and gave them the address but i bet they was too busy to go and fetch it.

On a final note the lads who i got my bike back off told me that they had paid 80 quid for it, and wanted me to reimburse them for the money. I told them they was lucky has i had paid 600

[randomsquid]

On a final note the lads who i got my bike back off told me that they had paid 80 quid for it, and wanted me to reimburse them for the money.

I'm afraid at that point I'd have shoved his face in.

[D-Rider]

On a final note the lads who i got my bike back off told me that they had paid 80 quid for it, and wanted me to reimburse them for the money.

..... did they volunteer to give you the V5

[blinkey501]

On a final note the lads who i got my bike back off told me that they had paid 80 quid for it, and wanted me to reimburse them for the money.

I'm afraid at that point I'd have shoved his face in.

[Willopotomas]

On a final note the lads who i got my bike back off told me that they had paid 80 quid for it, and wanted me to reimburse them for the money.

I'm afraid at that point I'd have shoved his face in.

I think his face would've been put to the back of his tiny mind long before any words were uttered. Maybe it's a Coventry thing that all scum must get what's coming to them?

[Falcorob]

I'd have gone for the bike with Mabel and introduced them if he'd made that remark to me.

Glad you got the bike back without too much damage but yet another 'Coppers aren't interested in doing real Coppering' story to justify our growing distrust of them.

(Mabel and I have been friends for over 10 years. She has resided next to my bed for all of that time, including a house move, and has yet to be disturbed. Finest Brazilian Hardwood and 1.1 metres long. She's lovely. )

[flatlander]

Have a similar item I bought from the motorway services in Spain neatly decorated with the the Spanish equivalent of
"Amti Twat Bat"

[blinkey501]

I tried to get into contact with a very goog friend of mine, in that i mean a guy who i have been mates with for 35 years and he was my best man at my wedding. Dave is a self employed stone mason and would not think twice of picking up a gravestone and walking with it, he really is that strong. Dave was not available so i had to take my 67 year old father who to be honest in his youth would have been quite capable of sorting one of the fuc*ers out. I did not want any harm to come to my dad has he tried to encourage me it was not a good idea to go without mr plod. And has i say unfortunatly all the police were 150 miles away on a very important job and could not rush back to assist me.

I had read in the MCN some time ago that a lad had the simular problem with his 600 bike which was i think an R6 that had been stolen and he had been tipped off has to it whereabouts.
He left it to the police and they did not react straight away, and by the time they did do something the bike was gone.

[D-Rider]

A few years ago my son's scooter was nicked. Police didn't really want to know. So my son got on the phone to all his mates and we and they went out looking for it.
After a few hours with a few leads from mates of his mates who thought they might have seen it being ridden, we found it dumped and recovered it ourselves.
At that point, plod wanted to collect it (guess a successful recovery would have helped their stats) - we refused as we would then have had to pay to get the thing back from the recovery company that they have a "scam" with.

Nevertheless, the next morning they did send a finger print chap round - who got nothing from it.

After that I could begin repairing it.

[BikerGran]

After I had an acident years ago my baby bike was nicked from my garage (I have an idea who did it but no evidence of any kind) and the story of its recovery is an odd one - nothing to do with the police this time, except that I reported the theft of course, and when I looked at the report (was working for them at the time) they'd got the details wrong.

But my daughter and son-in-law came round a few days later, Rose saying she'd had a dream about my bike and seen it was in an alleyway somewhere. Ther are quite a lot of alleyways and cut-throughs on our estate so they set out to systematically search them - and found it!

It's not the first time she's had a 'clairvoyant' kind of dream but unfortunately she hasn't been able to help with lottery numbers!

[Falcorob]

I tried to get into contact with a very goog friend of mine, in that i mean a guy who i have been mates with for 35 years and he was my best man at my wedding. Dave is a self employed stone mason and would not think twice of picking up a gravestone and walking with it, he really is that strong. Dave was not available so i had to take my 67 year old father who to be honest in his youth would have been quite capable of sorting one of the fuc*ers out. I did not want any harm to come to my dad has he tried to encourage me it was not a good idea to go without mr plod. And has i say unfortunatly all the police were 150 miles away on a very important job and could not rush back to assist me.

I had read in the MCN some time ago that a lad had the simular problem with his 600 bike which was i think an R6 that had been stolen and he had been tipped off has to it whereabouts.
He left it to the police and they did not react straight away, and by the time they did do something the bike was gone.

Your circumstances in this particular incident could only have been dealt with in the way that you did. None of us were there for a start and so don't have a true idea of what you were potentially up against. We also don't truly know how we would have reacted if it had been happening to us and so can only comment based on our perceived beliefs. I'm just glad that you got your property back, more or less in one piece, and that no harm came to either you or your father during the recovery of the bike.

However, you now know where the little scrotes live and a rideout to the address could be organised.