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Kaise
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this is the best part of the article though - the commentsportland6, Portland, Dorset wrote:I was relentlessly bullied as a child by older boys with mothers who justified their thuggish behaviour. An incident where a new water-bottle-holder my dad had bought me that day was unscrewed from my bike and thrown in a ditch to be lost forever is seared in my memory and still makes me sad now, 30 years later. These thoughtless moments of bullying are important, to victims and their parents (who pay taxes), and yes, the police should be dealing with them. This parent should be ashamed for supporting her son's bullying in this brazen way.0
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is it really him?
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Toughtfully the DM have included a picture of a dustcap, just so we know what was stolen.
Also, "They do not know the surname or address of the other boy’s family". So a 'prank between friends' is actually a 15 year old stealing something off a 12 year old he appears to not actually know. He sounds like a little sh1t,
Look at the face on the mother, I'd cal l the police rather than face that!
Wait, 12 year old.... Jay, was it you?!0 -
Fail.. it was a Schraeder valvecap and they're easy to replace.
Now if it was a Presta I'd see the "issue"0 -
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kaiser83 wrote:this is the best part of the article though - the commentsportland6, Portland, Dorset wrote:I was relentlessly bullied as a child by older boys with mothers who justified their thuggish behaviour. An incident where a new water-bottle-holder my dad had bought me that day was unscrewed from my bike and thrown in a ditch to be lost forever is seared in my memory and still makes me sad now, 30 years later. These thoughtless moments of bullying are important, to victims and their parents (who pay taxes), and yes, the police should be dealing with them. This parent should be ashamed for supporting her son's bullying in this brazen way.
Although strange, at least something useful had been stolen there. It's not like a dustcap is an essential part of anyone's bike. Hell, if mine magically disappeared, I don't think I'd notice until I changed my tyres.
anyway, this says it all really, form the article...The matter has now been recorded as a ‘solved crime’ which will bolster Suffolk Police’s annual statistics.0 -
The problem with stories like this is that the Police are very limited in what they can report publicly, the victim doesn't want to say anything to the press, but the offender wants their sadface photo in a paper (that happens to have a very strong anti public service agenda). So you get a one sided story that is then encouraged to be more one sided by the reporter and (sub )editor.
It does seem strange to call the police for a missing dustcap, but who knows what the whole story is?
Ah
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Haverhi ... 072011.htmAs the Father of the Victim in this case, this is a very one sided and inaccurate view. This matter was reported to the police as a final straw in a period of bullying experienced by my 12 year old son by this adolescent that should by now know better! regardless of the value of the item taken it was the nature of the robbery that caused the most distress and resulted in the police report
He broke the law, it was only minor and he replaced the item and wrote a letter of apology. Handled sensibly by the police tbh.
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Good old Sting. Helping bullying victims sine 18940
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bails87 wrote:Presta is harder to nick off a car
But that's just the stock photo, and seeing as they used this:
to show what a silver Ford Focus looks like, I wouldn't trust their choice of image. I also wouldn't believe too much from the one sided story
just noticed thats my car, where did you get that photo??0 -
Ha ha andfuckingha again, unfortunately I fear that
a)Fully-mong is from oop north and I see no flat cap or whippet in that picture
b) his mum is much fitter0 -
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RevellRider wrote:And people complain about their LBS being expensive!Daniel has now replaced the £4.50 dust cap and written the letter of apology.
£5.99 @ CRC
Kaiser, if you're being serious that would actually be pretty funny!
As for showing in the stats as a solved crime, surely it's better to say "This isn't a police matter" and record less crime. 0 -
kaiser83 wrote:bails87 wrote:Presta is harder to nick off a car
But that's just the stock photo, and seeing as they used this: to show what a silver Ford Focus looks like, I wouldn't trust their choice of image. I also wouldn't believe too much from the one sided story
just noticed thats my car, where did you get that photo??
Kaiser, phone call for ya..........
Its my dead grandad, he wants his car back 0 -
Crikey me talk about soft southerners ! I remember being at school bikes that were rode there were always being vandalised, having bits taken off them by presumably toolbox equipped kids and tyres flatted !
One act which cracked me up was all the other bikes were thrown around in the shelters by some little sh1te yet mine was as I left it, was nice knowing I had such presence back then ohh how it washed off in time 0 -
Maybe they did it so all the other kids would assume it was you who threw their bikes, and that they'd gang up on you.Ryan Jones wrote:One act which cracked me up was all the other bikes were thrown around in the shelters by some little sh1te yet mine was as I left it, was nice knowing I had such presence back then ohh how it washed off in time0 -
Thats a good point to be fair, but then again I wouldn't do a thing like that despite being a right cretin at the time0
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Doesn't matter though does it? As long as the others suspected you, then the job was done.0
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Although people shouldn't steel dustcaps and all that I think calling the police was a step too far. Why not just go their house and ask the parents to give them the money and beat the kid up? Much more sensible."Youth's a mask, but it don't last
live it long and live it fast."
My dustcap topic:
http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/forum/view ... &highlight0 -
