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discostar23
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
Location: getting the hell out of dodge
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 Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:43 pm Post subject: So I got my scooter back |
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Well I was on here complaining about a month ago that my scooter was stolen. Well I filed a report with the police that day, stayed angry for a week and then pretty much gave up on it.
Yesterday the police called...they found it. They had called a couple of times before but the scooters weren't mine. So I went to go check it out and low and behold there it was. Flat tire, battery sitting in a pool of water and no air filter. When I opened up the trunk my papers from school were still in it (some kid's homework).
This is the second time I have had something stolen from me in Korea and got it back. Strange but Happy ending
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Good for you, glad to hear some good news. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: So I got my scooter back |
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| discostar23 wrote: |
Well I was on here complaining about a month ago that my scooter was stolen. Well I filed a report with the police that day, stayed angry for a week and then pretty much gave up on it.
Yesterday the police called...they found it. They had called a couple of times before but the scooters weren't mine. So I went to go check it out and low and behold there it was. Flat tire, battery sitting in a pool of water and no air filter. When I opened up the trunk my papers from school were still in it (some kid's homework).
This is the second time I have had something stolen from me in Korea and got it back. Strange but Happy ending
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The Scooter-Go-Round
Congratulations, Discostar! Taking nothing away from your own recent stroke of very good fortune, I've got a similar tale from a few years back. In my case, it wasn't my scooter, but a buddy's who was then living upstairs from me.
His 50cc scooter was in our garage (shutter closed but unlocked) and he was out of the country on summer holiday. One afternoon there was the most awe-inspiring downpour I've ever witnessed in a one-hour period. Like a faucet in the sky was turned on full blast -- noisy and zero visibility. The rain finally let up, and an hour or two after that we went outside and found find the garage shutter open and the scooter missing.
Filed a police report, scoured the neighbourhood on my scooter, asked all around -- nothing. A week later, I decide to call my friend, who's still overseas, and break the bad news to him. Felt really bad and partly responsible...
A few days after that, I'm having dinner out with a few friends at a restaurant in the next "dong" over from ours. Across from the restaurant is a PC bahng. There's always a bunch of scooters parked there, and I generally never pay them any notice. But as I'm on hyper-alert these days whenever I see a scooter zip by, I walk over and look at them.
I'm staring in half-delight, half-disbelief, as before my eyes is my friend's scooter!! In a bit of an "altered state" though: Rear mirrors have been removed, electric starter was disconnected (so you've got to kick-start it), and some decals have been stripped off. But enough of one very unusual decal remained, and I recognised the shapes of all the decals that had been removed by the glue residue around the edges.
I posted a friend in front of the scooter, ran back to my house to get the key, came back, the key fit, and I drove it back home. My friends thought I should hang around until someone comes out the PC bahng to claim it, but I wasn't interested in a confrontation. If it was the thief who was riding it, he'd just lie and say he bought it from a stranger or found it abandoned somewhere. But I would have paid a small sum to see the look on the punk's face when he came out to find that someone swiped the scooter he swiped. 
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Beside the road, next to nothing, standing alone, a motorbike. Sometimes a helmet slung on the bars. Who's bike? Someone took it for a joyride and politely parked it. They could have lit it on fire or driven it off a cliff. They love bikes, it's just it isn't theirs, so they spare it. Use 'em and lose 'em. Shame on them! |
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