corndog67
Pissant Squid
And most coke freaks try real hard not to draw attention (police attention) to themselves.
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Neighbor keeps fucking with my bike
- Thread starter ElectricPrunes
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Snapping Twig
New member
Midway or Cabela's for a game camera.
Cheap, reliable, effective.
Had a similar douche at a job loosten the lug nuts on my work truck.
It was all fun and games until we had a 'talk'.
Maniacs need to be stopped short before their idiocy kills someone. They have no idea of consequences of their actions, so if fear is what it takes, so be it. You save someone else down the road.
Cheap, reliable, effective.
Had a similar douche at a job loosten the lug nuts on my work truck.
It was all fun and games until we had a 'talk'.
Maniacs need to be stopped short before their idiocy kills someone. They have no idea of consequences of their actions, so if fear is what it takes, so be it. You save someone else down the road.
Daks
Jersey Devil
Is it possible that you left the key turned on? Before anyone makes assumptions and gets out for blood or revenge, make sure it's them. Get a locking case and a camera.
Abyss
Anhedonia
Anxiously awaiting justice to be served.
The camera I linked above (Dropcam) isn't that much more than a game camera ($150), it broadcasts 24/7 over wifi, you can monitor it from a computer/smartphone/ipad, it stores 7 days of video in the cloud and alerts for activity. You can review activity on the website and save clips. FWIW.
Ironbutt
Loves the anecdotal
Yeah but their reality is somewhat skewed by the bathtub sized coke rocks their snorting. They think they're being quiet when infact their howling at the morning sun and waking up the world.
ElectricPrunes
New member
The game camera is near perfect. Pretty damn funny too. Ill check the drop cam out too. Thanks all for your support.
And it's not my $800 bike I'm worried about. It's my car, my much, much more expensive bicycles and all my other fun toys as well. How long till he realizes I've caught on to this particular prank and he tries something else? If he's trying to prank me he's not gonna just stop at the bike. I'd much rather catch whoevers doing this on camera so i can leverage the prick. Then I can tell them to cut the bullshit.
And I'm with some of you and hoping its not this guy considering it took me nine months to realize he was there and I still can't remember his name. Dave or Chris. Something white.
And it's not my $800 bike I'm worried about. It's my car, my much, much more expensive bicycles and all my other fun toys as well. How long till he realizes I've caught on to this particular prank and he tries something else? If he's trying to prank me he's not gonna just stop at the bike. I'd much rather catch whoevers doing this on camera so i can leverage the prick. Then I can tell them to cut the bullshit.
And I'm with some of you and hoping its not this guy considering it took me nine months to realize he was there and I still can't remember his name. Dave or Chris. Something white.
corndog67
Pissant Squid
Leverage him? What the fuck? I'm not suggesting this, but if I knew absolutely who was doing it, I'd not waste time playing games. Become an extreme asshole, and make it very uncomfortable for him to live there.
ElectricPrunes
New member
I'd just Rather catch him on camera so i know its him, and either hand the tapes to the cops or threaten ill take the tapes to the cops if I even so much as think he's pulling something again. Or just safetywire my rearsets, but I'd like not to have to keep checking my shit for tampering.
Also I'm positive my rearsets didn't rattle themselves loose. The left rearset was so loose I couldn't shift. That's pretty obviously tampering.
Also I'm positive my rearsets didn't rattle themselves loose. The left rearset was so loose I couldn't shift. That's pretty obviously tampering.
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If you're going to go the camera route, might as well get a Contour or a GoPro so at least you can do something with it once you're done proving what you have to prove 
Alternatively, put a little ball of clay at the bottom of the allen hole in each of the bolts of your rearsets so you can tell definitely that someone is putting a wrench in there and loosening them. You already said the bike is a rattle trap. Would you bet your life that it really wasn't the bolts coming loose on their own even with some loctite? and that you might have forgotten to turn off the ignition that once? weirder things have happened with bikes. The bolt on my aftermarket steering damper on my old ZX6 vibrated completely out so that I noticed the damper end just flopping in the wind. There was Loctite on that bolt (just a drop though) and my bikes are always in the garage and at that time it was so new I had never parked it in any public place. I suspect there was oil on that bolt that worked against the Loctite.
What I also don't understand fully is that he apologized for lying and getting you fired and then offered you a job to make up for it? But you declined that job so in his remorse and desire to do right by you for his previous actions he decided to endanger your life as a followon instead?
Is there more to that part of the story? Did you decline his offer "with extreme prejudice"?
Was it that long ago that he offered you this job? Maybe a better plan would be to get the camera, hide it on your person or in a gym bag and then talk to him again about the job, getting him to somehow admit that he had lied and got you fired and how that was "uncool" but you would forgive him if you got him the new job... Seems to me that its the same amount of trouble as confronting him with the bike video with an even more spectacular payoff if you get the right footage and an admission of guilt.
Heck, you can do even try both!
Alternatively, put a little ball of clay at the bottom of the allen hole in each of the bolts of your rearsets so you can tell definitely that someone is putting a wrench in there and loosening them. You already said the bike is a rattle trap. Would you bet your life that it really wasn't the bolts coming loose on their own even with some loctite? and that you might have forgotten to turn off the ignition that once? weirder things have happened with bikes. The bolt on my aftermarket steering damper on my old ZX6 vibrated completely out so that I noticed the damper end just flopping in the wind. There was Loctite on that bolt (just a drop though) and my bikes are always in the garage and at that time it was so new I had never parked it in any public place. I suspect there was oil on that bolt that worked against the Loctite.
What I also don't understand fully is that he apologized for lying and getting you fired and then offered you a job to make up for it? But you declined that job so in his remorse and desire to do right by you for his previous actions he decided to endanger your life as a followon instead?
Is there more to that part of the story? Did you decline his offer "with extreme prejudice"?Was it that long ago that he offered you this job? Maybe a better plan would be to get the camera, hide it on your person or in a gym bag and then talk to him again about the job, getting him to somehow admit that he had lied and got you fired and how that was "uncool" but you would forgive him if you got him the new job... Seems to me that its the same amount of trouble as confronting him with the bike video with an even more spectacular payoff if you get the right footage and an admission of guilt.
Heck, you can do even try both!
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ElectricPrunes
New member
So a year after I was fired from that job he calls me up, says he's sorry and now that hes been promoted to my position wants to give me a job. Not my old job. He's taken that. He's offering me a job under him where before I was his supervisor. Its him being a prick again.
Oh ok, so I see, time frame is out of range then for the video confession... It must have been a very well planned and executed lie though if you were his supervisor and he got you fired over it. They took his word against yours?
Anyway... Do the little ball of clay thing at the bottom of the allen hole, and get a Contour camera for videoing so that you can use it on your bike after you're done getting what you need too... If you get a Cabela's game cam, what else can you use it for once its served its purpose? Are you a hunter?
Daks
Jersey Devil
All but the one welded-in engine bolts nearly rattled out of my bike. Only noticed it while checking an oil leak.
After you ride (and before), check those rearset bolts, too.
After you ride (and before), check those rearset bolts, too.
ElectricPrunes
New member
You're overthinking how easy it is to get somebody fired for nothing. All you need is to say that x-employee told y-customer to go fuck himself, It's a lot easier for corporate to just fire someone then spend time ascertaining facts. It was a shit retail chain where turnover for jobs is a year or less.
The problem with Clay that he'll think I'm on to him. I want to bait him as much as I can. My rearsets arent rattling out. This bike looks fubar, but everything mechanical is cared for.
I'm actually excited to get the game camera. I've got a wildlife biologist/hunter for a best friend and he's got a birthday coming up in June. He even had a game camera on his wedding registry last July. I live on a quiet and wonderful cul de sac that's a bit too close to the bars so on weekends we get the drunks parking on our street. Last st patrick's day someone in a lifted truck backed into my neighbor's IS350 and totaled the car. He bolted. I ran outside hoping nobody hit my motorcycle and really wish I got the plates. Having a security camera permanently facing our little street wouldn't be so bad either.
The problem with Clay that he'll think I'm on to him. I want to bait him as much as I can. My rearsets arent rattling out. This bike looks fubar, but everything mechanical is cared for.
I'm actually excited to get the game camera. I've got a wildlife biologist/hunter for a best friend and he's got a birthday coming up in June. He even had a game camera on his wedding registry last July.
I live on a quiet and wonderful cul de sac that's a bit too close to the bars so on weekends we get the drunks parking on our street. Last st patrick's day someone in a lifted truck backed into my neighbor's IS350 and totaled the car. He bolted. I ran outside hoping nobody hit my motorcycle and really wish I got the plates. Having a security camera permanently facing our little street wouldn't be so bad either.
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Get a 30k volt flyback transformer off a neon sign.
Get a couple of 6' lengths of wire fence.
Lay the fence on the ground on either side of the bike.
Hook up one side of the transformer to the bike, the other to the fence.
Chances are he'll kneel down to tinker, and set something on the ground.
KAPOW!
Let's just hope his coke-whore heart doesn't give out. Or if it does, that you have enough time to clear off with the transformer before the cops show.
Get a couple of 6' lengths of wire fence.
Lay the fence on the ground on either side of the bike.
Hook up one side of the transformer to the bike, the other to the fence.
Chances are he'll kneel down to tinker, and set something on the ground.
KAPOW!
Let's just hope his coke-whore heart doesn't give out. Or if it does, that you have enough time to clear off with the transformer before the cops show.
AbsolutEnduser
bike r
wow... you live in a crazy area. So Walnut Creek is that bad, huh?
Maybe you should really get a camera if it is that bad...
:| Well anyway, do get the camera. It has to be $150 or above for good quality. The game camera looks like it has a small lens, maybe it wouldn't have good quality to make out a face at 60 feet or more. Clothes or body, yes, sure.
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Get a 30k volt flyback transformer off a neon sign.
Get a couple of 6' lengths of wire fence.
Lay the fence on the ground on either side of the bike.
Hook up one side of the transformer to the bike, the other to the fence.
Chances are he'll kneel down to tinker, and set something on the ground.
KAPOW!
Let's just hope his coke-whore heart doesn't give out. Or if it does, that you have enough time to clear off with the transformer before the cops show.
Wouldn't it be easier to just keep watch all night at the window with a baseball bat?
Abyss
Anhedonia
That's more like it. Dat click-clack makes suckas freeze in they tracks.
ElectricPrunes
New member
wow... you live in a crazy area. So Walnut Creek is that bad, huh?
Maybe you should really get a camera if it is that bad...
Haha this. So true. Why do i even give a shit....
I do know a lot of my neighbors. Many of them, weirdly enough, are within a couple years of my age and a few of them even own bikes. We're not all friends but we're a lot tighter with one another than anywhere else I've lived. The camera would just be nice to have in case anyone gets robbed or has their car broken into. It wouldn't be because I personally need it. Walnut Creek doesnt have the criminal activity that oakland, or even berkeley has. It has, and I'm certain of this, the dumbest population of any city on the planet. Any security measures would be to thwart the stupidity of this place, not to catch "criminals."
Let me do some research on game cameras to see what resolution I can get out of one of them.
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