If you find your bike missing from Dart or library bike rack

Wifey · 15-09-2014 12:31PM #1

Hi there, a group of us witnessed 2 bikes being taken from the bike rack at the dart and one from the library this morning. Gards were called and they caught up with them on their way back to Bray. So if you find your bike missing, they are down at the Garda station.

15-09-2014 12:38PM

Fair play!

Charlie-Bravo · 15-09-2014 09:13PM

Yeah, nice job Wifey!

Photos of the bikes on Official Greystones Neighbourhood Watch facebook page

LEIN · 16-09-2014 08:01PM

Nice one.

Did they head off on the DART or did they have a van?

Wifey · 16-09-2014 09:11PM

They tried to get them on the dart, but one of those rare occasions where there was a member of staff there and he got them off, he wasn't prepared to challenge them on the bikes though. So they headed up the town on them. Garda came down and we told him he missed them by 5 mins. He called it in to Bray and followed on up on his bike. Bray got them at windgates. In fairness to the Garda, he was on a mission to get them! He came back to say he was on his way to collect the bikes, but that without the bikes being reported stolen, they wouldn't be charged. What's worse is they were primary school age, which is what caught our attention in the first place!

Jimjay · 19-09-2014 06:57AM

Unfortunatly If they were primary school age and the bikes had been reported stolen they wouldn't have done anything anyway.

Btw, did you see how they stole them, did they cut the locks or choose bikes that were not locked up?

LEIN · 19-09-2014 07:23AM

Wifey wrote: »

They tried to get them on the dart, but one of those rare occasions where there was a member of staff there and he got them off, he wasn't prepared to challenge them on the bikes though. So they headed up the town on them. Garda came down and we told him he missed them by 5 mins. He called it in to Bray and followed on up on his bike. Bray got them at windgates. In fairness to the Garda, he was on a mission to get them! He came back to say he was on his way to collect the bikes, but that without the bikes being reported stolen, they wouldn't be charged. What's worse is they were primary school age, which is what caught our attention in the first place!

Thanks for the information. My bike is there 5 or 6 days a week.

Wifey · 19-09-2014 07:49PM

Jimjay wrote: »

Unfortunatly If they were primary school age and the bikes had been reported stolen they wouldn't have done anything anyway.

Btw, did you see how they stole them, did they cut the locks or choose bikes that were not locked up?

TBH, didn't see, they looked like they were up to no good, think it was bikes that were not locked up, but they knew what they were doing. Only the owners can tell you. Didn't look like they had anything on them.

zoobizoo · 22-09-2014 01:17PM

Had a bike taken from Bray DART station last year. The guy had a bolt cutters up his sleeve and was trying to get it over the barrier to get int onto the DART before being confronted by a staff member - he then legged it.

Guy in the bike shop said that ALDI or LIDL had had a small bolt cutter on sale and that bike thieves were hitting stations where they'd get the bike back into Dublin to sell on.

If you find your bike missing from Dart or library bike rack

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