re: Robbery Caught on Video

my question is, what is a 65 year old man living in a shitty apartment like that?

I thought the same thing and then realized he it is 99% likely he is going through a divorce and his wife/kids/dog are in his $400k house right now laughing at the TV. The nicer TV he didn't get to take with him to his crappy apartment.

cops wont do a damn thing so the home owner is out of luck, believe me i just dealt with it with a $4500 bike. We had the suspect on camera, knew his name and address and nothing.I got my bike back in a couple days and its been 2 weeks since it was stolen and the investigator hasnt even taken 2 minutes to call me. I took matters into my own hands and found the perp on facebook bc the officer who wrote the report told me. I had his name since numbnuts was on camera and worked at the restaurant below my building and the manager ID'd him. I proceeded to make a fake facebook account sending the video of him stealing my bike to all 800 of his facebook friends along with all his mugshots of previous arrests I could find on google and just telling everyone how big a POS he was. Before I knew it, 2 days passed and the kids mom, apparently one of my recipients, messages the facebook account that she's sorry and will personally bring me the bike back. The mom brought me the bike and then berated me for being a child about how I went about getting the bike back and that I was embarrassing her son. I told her she obviously raised a POS and my method worked since the police were clearly not gonna help.

The most appalling thing was how many people, his friends,told me to let it go, and a bike wasn't worth all this headache and I was being a crybaby.....unbelievable really how some people think.

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This reinforces what I said on an OB thread some time back. They were arguing that anything less than a $5k gun safe was useless because the average thief would break into it. I pointed out that the vast majority, including this guy armed with a tiny pry bar and a rag, are looking to run in and out and grab what they can. Even a metal box bolted to a stud would have kept the contents safe from this dude.

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Which is why I say, get a job box or a real, true safe in those discussions. Everything else is just paint and chrome.

Awesome you actually got the bike back. People wouldn't feel that way if someone stole your car, but what they don't realize is that your bike probably costs as much as a lot of small cars. Even though I got the bike back, I'd still press charges. I care more about my bike than my car though.

But I think this gets attention since it's on the news. Only reason.

id love to press charges but the cops have yet to call me back its seriously been over 2 weeks they came made a report the first day and said we will get in touch with you. They haven't called, Id understand if it was a $200 bike but $4500 and really nothing???
Its ok, just annoyed the one time I need help from the government I can't even get it. Just glad the bike is back, but the little bastard is still on the loose, and his mom obviously disagreed with my methods of retrieval, I embarrassed her son.

That's not robbery.

Title is misleading.

I wanted it back and didn't want to press charges. I was texting the kid, the manager gave me his cell phone number. For 2 days the kid strung me along about how poor he was and he just borrowed it to get home bc it was midnight when he closed and didn't have a ride, I even offered to buy him a cheap bike if that was the case. Then 2 days and nothing, the cops came back to make the report bc the first time they came they made it but said wait and if he brings it back we wont do anything. When they came the second time and pulled out their laptop and showed me & the manager the kid, he had a ton of previous arrests for theft at 21 and I just didn't feel bad anymore, it was all a lie at that point.

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the kids mom, apparently one of my recipients, messages the facebook account that she's sorry and will personally bring me the bike back. The mom brought me the bike and then berated me for being a child about how I went about getting the bike back and that I was embarrassing her son.

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She said she was sorry, then berated you? That means she is not sorry. Did she limp away after you count punted her?

I would also send a paragraph about how his whore mom acted to his 800 friends. Who gives a flying bull hamster's nut sack if the thief got his little feelings hurt? He is still owed a few knots on his thick head.

Whatcha gonna do brother?

ETA: After careful consideration I have changed my mind on the content of the message you should send to his 800 faceface friends. You should announce how his whore mom deep throated you to get you to agree that you would not press charges on her little thief. Thank him.

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That's not robbery.

Title is misleading

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But " I was robbed!" sounds more intriguing than "I was burglarized!"