Got a call about 9:20 tonight from my lad, Joe. His was out and his scooter had been nicked.
Rang the cops to report it. They rang him to confirm details. Eventually one of them got to where he was .... in passing on the way to somewhere else, was sarcastic to my kid and his mate and swore at them
and then went off on his more important business (are doughnut shops open at that time of night?).Anyway I got to Joe soon after and he and his mates had been ringing round everyone they knew for help.
Remarkably one of his mates dads had seen someone pushing a scooter that fitted the description and then we got another call from someone that had seen someone with a scooter of that description a bit further on in the same direction.
Well, with quite a possy assembled we went a searching ..... we scoured a number of very boggy fields and were getting nowhere for a while. Joe and his mates weren't giving up easily and I'm not sure how, but we spotted it lying in a heap at the bottom of a steep muddy embankment just by the river (well it's called a river but there are no real rivers near Cov - more like a brook). We hauled it up and it looks far less damaged than we feared.
Rang the police to tell them we'd found it. They told us they'd recover it to a garage for scenes of crime people to look at. I was wise to that trick - when my car was nicked, we (well the company I work for) had to pay a fortune to get it back from the garage ..... so I told them that, No, they wouldn't be recovering it, the state of the bike would be unlikely to reveal much (based on the fact that they couldn't even get anything from my house or car when that was stolen and the scooter was plastered with mud and crap). Anyway we got it home and locked away ready for a good check over in the morning. Number plate has gone, bits of trim have gone, lock/ignition knackered and who knows what else.
The Police then rang back to say that they do still want to have a look at it - so they'll be coming round tomorrow morning. I hope they're rather embarrassed that there were none of them to be seen out and about tonight - and where they failed to find it myself and a few teenagers succeeded within about three quarters of an hour of looking.
Timing of these things is never good but MOT and tax run out at the end of the month. I was planning to get it MOT'd tomorrow - but now I've got to fix it all up first ... and I haven't much time for doing this at the moment.
So although I'm glad we found it, it's been quite an eventful evening.
