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Theft victim arrested for demanding his bike back !
All credit for the following news story must goto: MCN. Written
By Steve
Farrell
A theft victim has been arrested for harassing a vehicle pound which
is holding his stolen bike.
Michael Wheatley believes it should cost him nothing to get his
stolen Honda Fireblade back after it was recovered by police within a
mile of his home in Pitsea, Essex.
But it was taken to a pound over 10 miles away and by the time
Wheatley was informed, he already faced a £160 recovery and storage
bill, which he refused to pay.
Since then the unemployed courier has emailed and phoned Albert Road
Recovery in South Ockendon over 70 times to demand the £2,000 1994 Blade
back.
Now the bill for its release is £500 thanks to mounting storage
charges – and Wheatley has been cautioned by police for harassment.
Wheatley, 46, said: “I phoned about 10 times but they wouldn’t take
my calls or phone me back so I gave up on that and stuck to emails. I
must have sent a couple a day for six weeks, so about 60 in total, maybe
more.
“A typical email said: ‘I feel aggrieved that I’ve been the victim of
a crime and yet I’m being charged to get my bike back.’
“Eventually they blocked my primary email address so I used another
one to send a message saying: ‘I’m still not giving up. I’m going to
follow this through right to the end and go to court if necessary.’
“It was then that police came to my home and arrested me.”
“I was fingerprinted, photographed, DNA tested, and cautioned under
the Public Order Act.”
Recovery costs can usually be claimed back on insurance but
Wheatley’s bike was uninsured when it was stolen from his garden in
November.
He had taken it off the road to save money while he was out of work.
A manager at Albert Road Recovery referred MCN to the police, saying:
“As far as I’m concerned we won’t comment on this whatsoever.”
An Essex Police spokesman said: “A 46-year-old man was arrested on
January 6 for a public order offence of harassment.
"He was later released having admitted the offence and agreeing to be
dealt with by means of a caution.”
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This kind of stuff happens all the time.
A few years back I had an MTX125 stolen just 2 days after purchase and had not yet insured it. About 4 weeks after the bike was stolen, I found some youths sat with it in a local car park, I called the police and stopped them going anywere with it. The police arrived and said they were calling the recovery services to collect the bike to wich I told them I just want to take it home, they said I could not take it home as it was procedure for a stolen recovered bike to go to the collection yard and be fingerprinted, the youth that stole the bike even admitted there and then that he had taken it from outside my house and they still took the bike anyway despite my protest.
(I didnt see the point in them collecting evidence as he was just a minor and would not be prosecuted anyway and I also knew I would not see any compensation to fix the mess he had made of it anyway as I have seen the same thing in the past)
Upon requesting the bike back I was told I had to pay £150 and I was not even aloud to look at it, I paid the money and they fetched me my bike. When the youth was caught the bike was running fine. the bike went to yard and suddenly it was missing so many parts, mechanically and electrically, it could not even be started.