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Hello
Saw some dodgy looking fellow with what was blatantly a stolen Navy coloured steel Sunn road bike just outside the IMAX around 30 mins ago. Bike had eggbeater pedals and would suit rider 6'0" or taller....
We followed the man down the road, but he jumped on a scooted down the Cut on it, sat on the crossbar as it was twice his size.....and he didn't have road shoes on, and well, unless he likes the feeling of his balls being crushed then it MOST CERTAINLY wasn't his bicycle. The dodgy looking over his shoulder and scooting off as soon as he realised we had clocked him kind of gave him away too.
Weirdly, after looking around for him for a bit - I then got the train home, and he was on the train, in the carriage I was in!! I tried to enlist the support of a sufficiently scary looking dude to help me recover the bike, but the thief got off at Bermondsey as I think he saw that I'd seen him again.
I got off at Peckham, and gave the police, who were checking tickets, full details.
They put out a whateveritscalled on their radio to the police at Bermondsey, and filed a stolen bike report....
Probably totally pointless but if by any chance a police officer spotted him outside or near the station then there is a v. slim (absolutely no??) chance the bike will be recovered.
Like I said, it's probably pointless but stranger things have happened. SO eh, if it was your bike, I'm sorry for not chasing the little swine and er, hope you get it back.
IF it was, may be worth calling the police about it to check if it was recovered. Or go to Bermondsey now, where he is probably flogging it for 2p.