Today, I discovered a purple BMX bike abandoned in my front yard. I wondered why it was there, until I looked over to discover that my own bike had been stolen. I guess they liked mine better. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I realized that my bike was stolen. It was no big deal, my name and number was on it, but it was a crappy bike anyway. I live 3 miles away, and while I was on my walk home I noticed a bike had been thrown through my principal's window. Who's bike was it? Mine. FML
Today, I came home from work to find the lock to my bike busted and my bike stolen. The worst part was a nicer bike was sitting right next to it without a lock. FML
Today, I saw my bike locked outside a Starbucks down the street from my house. It was stolen about 10 days ago from my communal laundry room. There was even a cop parked across the street, but I have no proof to show that bike even belonged to me. FML
Today, I saw my bike locked outside a Starbucks down the street from my house. It was stolen about 10 days ago from my communal laundry room. There was even a cop parked across the street, but I have no proof to show that bike even belonged to me. FML
Today, not only did someone steal my bike, they also managed to get wasted and drunkenly ride my stolen bike through my new screened-in front porch, destroying it and the bike. FML
Today, I finally received the bicycle I ordered months ago. It was an expensive custom-made bike which perfectly fit my 6'9" frame. Today, that bike got stolen. FML
Today, I was at Goodwill and I saw my bike, which was stolen from me a couple of weeks ago. It was a gift that my mom gave me for my birthday. The bike was being sold for 65 dollars. I had to buy it. FML
Today, I saw a bike locked to a short bollard, making it very easy to steal. Being as nice as I am, I stayed, hoping the owner would come soon and no one else would take it. Then the guy who bullied me in highschool showed up, asked me what I was doing, laughed at me, took the bike, and left. FML
Today, when I locked my newly repaired bike up, I carefully took the new rear light off it so that nobody could steal said light. Somebody stole my bike. At least I have a red light to play with. FML
Today, I found my bike that was stolen a week ago in front of someone's house. Now this wouldn't have been a problem if my husband didn't steal it to go meet with his girlfriend. FML
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Top comments
jen1097 25
Don't touch the bike and see if the police can get finger prints and also return the BMX to the real owner if it was also stolen
whysojealous 18
If you're gonna steal, why leave potential evidence? Man this is just as stupid as when someone stole my brother's bike in the snow and left tracks....
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Comments (34)
MitchRapp 20
Did you leave you bike out because you were "Tired"? That was bad I know.
spearcom 13
I guess he got TIRED of his old bike. No? ok
RodzillaX 30
Those jokes have been pushed out at a cyclic rate. It's almost like a never ending chain. Oh well, grab onto whatever handles you can find, and enjoy the ride...
tj4234 36
If you were going to make that pun, it would be tyred not tired.
Candijpg 17
Puns are like farts. If you force it, it's shit.
andrmac 25
No 13 if you force a farts its a shart or sharty pants, which is still not a time to use shitty situation pun.
aleyp63 13
But I can ride my bike with no handlebars
jen1097 25
Don't touch the bike and see if the police can get finger prints and also return the BMX to the real owner if it was also stolen
ssnow_fml 20
The cost of running the finger prints for one stolen bike is higher than the cost of the bike. They aren't gonna do that. Police work and forensics is not like CSI made it seem. It takes weeks to get toxicology reports and almost a week to run a set of prints. Also only about 20-30% of the population has finger prints in some sort of system. Not all of those systems can be accessed for criminal searches without reasonable evidence that a member of that database (I.e military) committed the crime.
AdamTodddBrown 11
Lol you've never had to call the police about something getting stolen have you?
BananEnigma 24
LOL you honestly think the police are going to spend tax dollars on something like THIS? Finger printing takes time and money, and they rarely do it unless absolutely necessary, for example during a murder investigation, etc... It's unlikely they'll actually DO anything about it, they'll probably just add it to their system because they technically have to. Also: unless your bike was registered, there's nothing they really CAN do. Even if they could do something, and they found the bike, if it's not registered they can't prove that it's yours. You're basically screwed.
BananEnigma 24
Ah, you guys sort of beat me to it... Oh well!
sighlifeman 12
might be too late as he probably did already
jen1097 25
Where I'm from they do, but it could be because the crime rate is a lot less serious compared to other places in the world so they don't need to use the resources as much on other things. I've had someone come underneath my house and take a few things and stop to have a smoke and the forensic team came straight away which is why I made the comment I did
alwaysaja 6
Hey, at least they left you one!
RodzillaX 30
One they can take off some sweet jumps. I wonder if they've got any pegs?
whysojealous 18
If you're gonna steal, why leave potential evidence? Man this is just as stupid as when someone stole my brother's bike in the snow and left tracks....
JCRouzer29 27
I want to hear the follow up to this more than OP's story
Burton_Forever 23
Been there before, they left me a kids bike back when I was younger, we went looking for my bike (my mother and I) and found my other bike that had gotten stolen previous to that bike..
tomvertigo 17
Bust out some sick bunny hops and grinds!
mds9986 24
You shouldn't leave expensive stuff in your front yard.
sarahjanek 7
What people really shouldn't be doing is taking what isn't theirs
zeffra13 31
A lot of people assume if something expensive is left in the yard that really shouldn't be in the yard, the people are giving it away. Like when people leave couches in the yard.
mds9986 24
19- in an ideal world yea, but this isn't an ideal world. Don't leave expensive things unattended.
Foxfire15 15
Agreed 19, but there's no reason to make it easy for them either. Leaving your bike unattended and unlocked in front of your house is like leaving your car running and unlocked. My dad lost 2 expensive road bikes this way too. You'd think he would have learned after the first one....
IorvethTheXolo 8
I can't decide if you deserved this one or not. On the one hand, people shouldn't steal shit, but on the other, you shouldn't have left it out. Unless it was stolen from inside your garage/yard/home. If that's the case, totally FYL.
Jjay08 7
It totally was. I didn't even chain it up right. In fact if it was for the left over bike I probably wouldn't have noticed that mine was gone.
StoriesOfMyLife_ 9
No, others shouldn't steal but I can't help feeling that there is a certain amount of responsibility on your part to make sure your stuff is safe. Hope you're able to get your own bike dude, that does suck
kristinjeaneen 21
...at least they were nice enough to leave their old bike for you.