UPDATED: Purloined Unique Bicycle Recovered
Categories: Crime
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| Oddly enough, this bike is tame compared to the stolen one |
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| via Amazon.com |
| This is what a stolen bike looks like |
SFPD recovered the bike sometime Tuesday night, a spokesman told Bay City News. Police have made no arrests in the case, but described their suspect as "a man between 25 and 30 years old and about 5 feet 8 inches tall to 5 feet 10 inches tall with a shaved head. He was last seen wearing dark clothing."
Our original post follows.
We admittedly don't know much about crime -- we're still smarting from having to return those LifeSavers and say "We're sorry" to a RiteAid clerk when we were six -- but we're fairly sure that in order to be a successful criminal, one must be subtle, discrete, and not steal things that are, like, really and utterly noticeable.
Tell that to the at-large San Francisco bicycle thief who jacked a unique two-seated two-wheeled machine -- from a special-needs child, no less -- and has thus far cheated karma and eluded authorities.
The bike in question is a tandem contraption built by BuddyBike, stolen at 4:30 a.m. May 16 from the North Point shopping complex parking lot by "a man with a shaved head," according to the Examiner. Early riser or night owl, he's brave: he entered a locked parking lot, took the bike and rode it out off into the sunrise, according to police.
Whereever the BuddyBike may be, it can't possible have that low of a profile -- it has two seats, for the love of pedals -- and it's one of only three in San Francisco and 450 in the United States, police said. And not cheap -- they retail at $1,660 on Amazon.com.
SFPD is asking the public for its help in this case. Anyone who has seen the bike is asked to call the confidential tip line at (415) 575-4444.
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