Trek 2nd District

What happened

My bike and another bike were locked with newer U-locks with flat keys to a street sign outside of a residential building. At midnight, when we went to bed, the bikes were still there. Although our windows were open all night, we didn't hear any noise from the sign being removed, but in the morning (at the latest 6:45am) there was a huge hole, broken concrete, and no sign of the bikes or the street sign.

Bike details

Type

Road Bike

Color

tan

Size

52cm frame

Condition

New Trek bicycle, tan tires, single speed. Tan and brown frame with seafoam green and orange stripes. Brown drop handlebars & brown Bontrager saddle, a green ATA sticker on the top tube, brown chain guard.

Theft circumstances

Date

Jun 2, 2011

Lock type

Other

Locked to

Locked to street sign.

How locked

Only the frame was locked a solid object.

How defeated

Object that bike was locked to was broken, removed, or otherwise compromised.

Duration

about six hours

Area

Front of building in residential area.

Recovery notes

Update 6/2/2011: The victim found a note from a neighbor. The neighbor had come upon the thief as he succeeded in working the sign out of the ground. The neighbor put the bikes and sign and storage. The bikes are back in possession of the "victims." The complete account as communicated to CSBR follows: My bike (the Trek 2nd District) and my boyfriend's bike (the black Bowery Giant listed two above) weren't actually stolen after all! My neighbor caught someone in the process of stealing them at 3:30am last night - the sign was bent and nearly out of the ground, and his dog chased away a white stocky guy in his 30s-40s down the street. He flagged down some cops nearby, but no word on whether the perpetrator was caught. Strangely, we received no mention of this incident when WE called the cops.