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The Stolen Bicycle

by Vimala Ramu
(Bangalore, Karnataka, India)

With me being a late sleeper and my husband being a ‘very early’ riser, there are very few hours in between for a thief to make a successful entry into our house let alone to help himself to a few things. In spite of this, few thefts have taken place in that ‘golden’ hour that is between 1 am and 3 am. I believe during this time both late sleepers and early risers will be in deep sleep (so says the psychology manual of the thieves).


Once my granddaughter decided to junk her cycle which she and her sister had outgrown. She locked the cycle and kept it in the compound for easy disposal. After a couple of nights we found it missing.

The thief must have jumped over the compound wall silently (as we locked the gate also in the nights) and must have carried away his booty, the cycle, triumphantly marveling at his extraordinary luck. As it was a condemned item, no one bothered much about its absence at home.

Two days later my brother’s wife who lived on the next street commented casually that someone had left a locked bicycle in her compound and it was lying there unclaimed for the past two days.

Immediately we surmised that the thief probably a thin, scrawny specimen must have felt it too cumbersome to lug a locked bicycle and carry his operations in rest of the houses. So he must have decided to abandon it then and there and talk of coincidences, the place he chose to get rid of it happened to be my brother’s house!

The bicycle was eventually brought back from there and was disposed off in the manner planned earlier.


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Aug 03, 2014
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by: kanthi Narayanan

Hee hee good one Vimm!!!!!-FB
Aug 03, 2014
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by: vimala

Thank you Komal and Pankaja.
Aug 03, 2014
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by: komala

Good that the bike was at Sheela's and you got it inback. Lucky Sheela., she did not loose anything else when the thief might have come to revive the bike after a couple of days later!!!!.
Aug 02, 2014
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by: nuggehallipankaja

though short, interpreting with your style
Aug 02, 2014
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by: vimala

Roopa Badrinath- The gentleman that he was I was expecting him to leave some money for its repairs
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Vimala Ramu Thank you Roopa for visiting my blog. Repairs? He must have thought it was a basket case. The old iron rate also did not tempt him.
Aug 01, 2014
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by: vimala

Thank you Mr.Manohar.
Aug 01, 2014
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by: Manohar Naidu

Short & Sweet incident

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