Win some, lose some
Mar. 7th, 2004 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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timill a couple of days ago and he suggested I should post it here. It's a bit late now but never mind.
About three weeks ago I was in the front garden starting my motorbike when I noticed something sticking out from under the hedge. So I took a look while the engine was warming up and discovered a large pair of bolt cutters. About a foot away from the large steel chain through the front wheel...
Asked around, turns out it doesn't belong to anyone in the flat below, nor to our neighbours. The theory now is that someone tried to nick the bike during the night, started to mess about with the chain (although there are no marks on it), and got scared off by the bike's alarm or for some other reason. Most likely the alarm, since it's fairly sensitive. The odd part is that nobody heard anything; not me, not anyone in the flat below, and not my neighbours. I suppose that in theory we ought to hand the cutters over to the police as lost property, but we've decided to keep them until someone comes along and asks for them. I somehow suspect it'll be a long wait...
I ought to be smug about that, but unfortunately someone climbed over the wall and nicked a bicycle from the back garden shed last weekend. So it goes.
timill a couple of days ago and he suggested I should post it here. It's a bit late now but never mind.About three weeks ago I was in the front garden starting my motorbike when I noticed something sticking out from under the hedge. So I took a look while the engine was warming up and discovered a large pair of bolt cutters. About a foot away from the large steel chain through the front wheel...
Asked around, turns out it doesn't belong to anyone in the flat below, nor to our neighbours. The theory now is that someone tried to nick the bike during the night, started to mess about with the chain (although there are no marks on it), and got scared off by the bike's alarm or for some other reason. Most likely the alarm, since it's fairly sensitive. The odd part is that nobody heard anything; not me, not anyone in the flat below, and not my neighbours. I suppose that in theory we ought to hand the cutters over to the police as lost property, but we've decided to keep them until someone comes along and asks for them. I somehow suspect it'll be a long wait...
I ought to be smug about that, but unfortunately someone climbed over the wall and nicked a bicycle from the back garden shed last weekend. So it goes.
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Date: 2004-03-08 02:48 am (UTC)Someone tried to steal mine from my shed out back, but it was also alarmed and they fled. Luckily I had only fitted it the day before and inititally thought at 3:00AM it was a false warning, seeing the cut padlocks on the floor by torchlight showed me it was not.
So I still have my bike.
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By the way, I've added your LiveJournal feed over at Yog-Sothoth.com (http://www.yog-sothoth.com/).
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Date: 2004-03-08 12:15 pm (UTC)Thanks for adding my feed - not sure I'll be saying a huge lot that's of interest to the squamous non-Euclidean side of games fandom, but who knows.
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Date: 2004-03-08 12:40 pm (UTC)Thanks for the kind words about my machine. It's a little less shiny now due to Bradfordian weather taking its toll, but it a fun (if not very fast) ride!
I think anything you say will be of interest to ol'Cthulhu fans. Your work in Trail of the Loathsome Slime, Nightmare in Norway (my fave), Green and Pleasant Land, The Great Old Ones, Blood Brothers 1 & 2 and Fearful Passages is fondly remembered. Bad Moon Rising is an acknowledged classic. We do not forget.