Thieves ride off with teen's £4,000 bike

Evolution in action! Spending £4,000 on a bicycle is pretty stupid!
But, then, mountain bikers aren't the sharpest tools in the shop....

Mike


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Thieves ride off with teen's £4,000 bike
Friday, September 26, 2008, 08:00
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A teenage champion mountain biker has been left devastated after
thieves broke into his garage and stole his prized cycle.
Josh Hodgetts, 16, woke to discover his red Intense Socom mountain
bike, worth about £4,000, had been stolen from the garage of his
family home in Claverham.
The raiders had also stolen his Suzuki RM 125cc motocross bike, which
he had just bought and three other mountain bikes used by his mum, dad
and brother.
Josh, who is studying sport at Weston College, is a champion downhill
mountain biker.
He won the national championships in his age category two years ago
and this year came third in the English Downhill Championships.
Jane, a 42-year-old learning support assistant, said: "Josh is gutted.
He worked really hard to pay for the bikes doing paper rounds and
working as a landscape gardener at weekends and during the summer
holidays."
It is believed the thieves levered open the garage and then cut the
security cables which secured the bikes to the wall.
The total value of the haul is estimated to be around £13,000.
Call the police on 0845 4567000 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111 if you
have any information.
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On Sep 26, 2:30*pm, Mike Vandeman wrote:
Evolution in action! Spending *£4,000 on a bicycle is pretty stupid!
But, then, mountain bikers aren't the sharpest tools in the shop....

How much have you spent on airline tickets?

On Sep 26, 8:08*pm, Siskuwihane wrote:
On Sep 26, 2:30*pm, Mike Vandeman wrote:

Evolution in action! Spending *£4,000 on a bicycle is pretty stupid!
But, then, mountain bikers aren't the sharpest tools in the shop....

How much have you spent on airline tickets?

Probably nothing. He steals from his employer by spending his time at
work surfing the internet and using a business phone for personal use,
anyone can verify this fact quite easily. Just think of the hours he
spent scribbling his weird thoughts and putting it on an employer
provided website. Odds are that he somehow has managed a way to get
free airline tickets so nobody at his workplace has to deal with him.
Due to the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is probably impossible
for his bosses to fire him for incompetence and his inability to
interact with others in a sane, normal, intelligent manner. All he
has to do if his bosses would attempt to discipline him for being
nonproductive (PARASITE is a fitting description) would be to contact
the ADA and show them his newsgroups posts and his scribblings. Is it
any wonder that employers are requiring pre-employment drug tests and
background searches when there people like mikey vandeman?

On Sep 26, 2:30*pm, Mike Vandeman wrote:
Evolution in action! Spending *£4,000 on a bicycle is pretty stupid!
But, then, mountain bikers aren't the sharpest tools in the shop....

Mike

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/...acer-s-4-000-b...

Thieves ride off with teen's £4,000 bike
Friday, September 26, 2008, 08:00
10 readers have commented on this story.
Click here to read their views.
A teenage champion mountain biker has been left devastated after
thieves broke into his garage and stole his prized cycle.
Josh Hodgetts, 16, woke to discover his red Intense Socom mountain
bike, worth about £4,000, had been stolen from the garage of his
family home in Claverham.
The raiders had also stolen his Suzuki RM 125cc motocross bike,
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snipped to reduce mikey's carbon footprint

http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande


Mike, you've proven that you steal from your employer. Did you steal
this guy and his mum's bike's when you flew overseas to attend an
environmental lecture? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHn5Yp5Dk_4