Bike Trailer Stolen

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

Well, ya try to make the world a better place...

That's a very nice & laudable sentiment ...

Quoted message said:

My way of doing this
was to ride a bike 'most everywhere, and to get a trailer to haul stuff
when riding.

..... and a very nice approach. I wish many blessings upon you.
Know that your efforts are appreciated.

Quoted message said:

I will pay $50 for information that leads to the return of my trailer.
I'll double that if the information also leads to an arrest. If beating
people to a pulp were not illegal, I'd offer even more for an opportunity
to do that.

I really really wish I could hook up with ya, to conspire
to build The Perfect Homebuilt Cargo Trailer for yez.
Bike cargo trailers are kewl and there needs to me more
of them around, and more affordable & available.

In practice, it's not always illegal to beat people to a
pulp, especially if ya take some licks yerself, and there's
mutual consent to sort things out, the hard, shin-kickin' way.
The main thing is to not too greatly distress the general
onlooking public by doing so. If the beat-up-ee has a rep
with the cops for needing such input, and you don't cause
really serious, grievous injuries ... yeah, sure, go ahead.

But to succumb to temptation is human; to forgive is also
human (in a better way.) Maybe the thief is some addle-brained
homeless guy with an heart-rending tragic history, who really
needs a trailer with which to ply his meager living, and doesn't
drink or do drugs but nevertheless thinks the moon is trying to
kill him or something, and you'd feel very badly afterward for
having beaten him to a pulp. Maybe if he'd only have asked nicely,
you'd have gladly given him the trailer.

I wish everybody could have a bike cargo trailer.

I've seen some fairly decent ones for sale, for the same
amount as your 50 bux reward.

Material possessions are just stuff. Sometimes they're
just burdens. There's plenty more where that came from.
See my amended .sig below.

cheers,
Tom

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Tom Keats said:

Maybe the thief is some addle-brained
homeless guy with an heart-rending tragic history

... and a hefty pair of bolt cutters.

Bill, who WILL keep on biking, AND pulling a trailer, one way or another.

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

Tom Keats said:

Maybe the thief is some addle-brained
homeless guy with an heart-rending tragic history

... and a hefty pair of bolt cutters.

Probably not /that/ hefty.

Quoted message said:

Bill, who WILL keep on biking, AND pulling a trailer, one way or another.

I know you will, and you know you will ($DEITY bless ya for it.) And the
Earth will continue to rotate about its axis.

I truly am sorry for your loss, and I'm sorry if I'm coming across as
unsympathetic. I know it sux to be ripped-off; it's a victimizing affront.
Sometimes it's difficult to transcend making a Pointe D'Honeur out of
everyday b.s. I think that's contributary to why there's so much road rage.
All I'm saying is: let's not be to hasty as to beating the perp to a pulp.

Leave 'im to his qismut. The ol' "An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth"
isn't permission to exact revenge. It just means the punishment should be
commensurate with the crime. So the ripper-offer should be deprived to
exactly the same extent as you have been deprived -- no more, and no less.
You'd have to initially determine the fine-ness of the pulp into which
you'd beat him.

I really wish I could fix you up with a new trailer.
I could use one, myself. I've got an ongoing project of making one
out the the ass-end of an adult trike that somebody stashed up our
back yard trees.

klahowya,
Tom

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Tom Keats said:

I truly am sorry for your loss, and I'm sorry if I'm coming across as
unsympathetic. I know it sux to be ripped-off; it's a victimizing affront.

Your empathy and sympathy are noted and very much appreciated.
OTOH, a time or two I have caught thieves, and I seem to kick into a
(perhaps quite dangerous) adrenaline-fueled autopilot mode. Once I
smashed a crook's headlights with a rock. (He and his accomplice were
cowering inside the car--crooks are cowards at heart.) About five years
ago I caught a guy stealing at work. When he declined to come up to the
security office I put him in a full Nelson and convinced him. By the time
he got through that, the criminal court case, and the civil action, he was
pretty contrite.
But I'm not getting any younger. I gotta start letting the cops do
their job. Meanwhile, it helps to vent. I ran flyers around to a bunch
of bike shops yesterday. The sympathy of other cyclists is truly genuine.

Bill, quite serious about the reward.

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