Foreign bike. Van's bike got stolen last night or something and he thinks he sees it. so we'll see I don't know. He like, maybe hold his backpack and like that, Are you kidding me? He's got it.

Damn it's whose bike is that? Vamps How do you know it's his? Check out the license plate. Yep, that's that's Van's bike. Someone stole my bike. We're trying to find it, but the tracking thing that's built into it is almost useless.

Carry that. Okay, now just searching on foot. The app is supposed to track them but called Dean and he said it's two hours before they send the Ping from the bike so that we can find the location. I made you cry how come man I Love that bike.

Best bike I ever had. And the thing about it is that it wasn't just my bike, it was X's and my bike. This is uh, the first footage of us ever riding it together. Foreign stole it while we were playing Skee-Ball at the Santa Monica Pier got a ping from the bike 11th in Arizona in Santa Monica I'm meeting Dean there right now I'm going to take I'm going to take X's t-ball bat with me and I'm gonna go meet him right now.

Good enough. So I made one mistake I don't know why I made this mistake I think it's because I'm so routine oriented I made one mistake and that was I Didn't check the Ping from the bike until eight this morning when I should have checked it at four or five o'clock in the morning and then had to jump on Whoever this thief is. What this thief might not understand though I've painted it on the down tube is that this particular bike contains a tracking transponder. This bike is virtually worthless if stolen and contains a GPS tracking device.

Its electronic components require my phone to function. Its value warrants a grand larceny charge. I'm gonna return to the scene of the crime. All right.

So Dean dressed up for this and he has a theory about a parking garage full of questionable bikes. General Van Move Notes are General bike Thief notes General Fan move Spike Details Okay, so I talked to the bike recovery guys when my bike got stolen and they said without exceptions when they went to retrieve a bike, as soon as they found it, the guy just gave it up. Oh okay, there's no fight, there's no argument, he just he knew it right away he gave it. That's been my experience.

Yeah, so you know violence is always. Absolutely the cops would come and help. The cops are really surprisingly helpful. they like called me back and got me the report number and everything so I could send it to Van Move.

All right. So this is the parking garage. Oh that one. Oh so you think this.

this place looks kind of look but here oh I was thinking less legit than this. Well oh okay I don't want to disparage any legitimate bit. Oh okay, were the lights on last time you came here. so I should turn my app on.

Yeah, okay, that's not it while this is happening and so while we look the hotel Union is on strike, the housekeepers Union is on strike. Just out of a out of a humiliating irony, we're just looking here. which is where Peewee Herman's bike got stolen in Peewee's Big Adventure looked a lot different than those. Hurry I'm afraid we can't consider your bike being stolen a police emergency.

If it doesn't turn up, then come down to the station and fill out a report. That's the best we can do. Come on, look at it right. What are you looking at? What's up man, what are you looking at? It's a nice setup.

you got there. Oh I Sleep up top. All right, You sleep up top. Yes I do.

Now when I handed the GoPro over to Dean the screen saver must have come on which makes it look like the GoPro is powered off. so I think Dean powered the GoPro off thinking it was powering it on and what he missed was me telling this man that I had reported the bike stolen I had filed a police report with the Santa Monica Police Department that this bike was stolen and that if he just let me take the bike that would be the end of it and then this happened. Take it, take it for it. So what? All right? We're out.

Just get a receipt next time. enough we're done. We're done this. What's the name etched into that frame right there? Okay, see that name right there? then.

Nice. That and nice staff. Is that a good enough? All right. You have something else.

You got a receipt, it's running. now. if you have a phone, you got a receipt with a bike. You have a photo.

That's not enough. Dude, the cops was not enough. Picture: I've recorded it. You got a picture.

This is an electronically enabled Hi bro. I Understand, this is all that. How about this. How about how do you turn that light on right here? That ain't the only bike they made.

No, it's fine. Listen. Listen. Listen.

All right. listen. if it's the gentleman's bike, he's having his bike, let him have happened I Paid 100 bucks for it. Yeah.

I Need police assistance Immediately on Rose Ave In the boardwalk? Yeah in the boardwalk into Venice I Just had a man stole my bike and he's threatening me with, uh, we just want to make sure that it's you know the person's bike. it's I'm just looking I'm just looking at Rose Ave and I'm on the boardwalk in Venice officer's name his name's Stephen Perez Come yeah I Just bought it green shirt. We're standing right here. That's cool I've seen tons lots of different I can't hear you so I'm telling you hi, hey, how are you uh he has a large pair of pliers.

All right. he has watch for this. How long has this been stolen? 24 hours? Yeah okay. I don't know if he took it, but he currently has it gazebo right here.

I'm going to get my money man. Yeah, go get your money back from that man. huh? He'll get your money from that guy because I I paid 100 bucks. Go get your money.

I'm going if he's got it man. right now. turn turn the bikes around it. We're not against you guys.

We're against the people who are thinking these things. So let's do it with that guy. You feel me? Yeah, So so we're just gonna. We're gonna leave right now with the bikes.

and that's the end of it. Yeah, yeah, that's it. If it's your property man, you're allowed to take your property. Yeah, we're gonna leave right now with the bikes.

Thank you I'm not. The situation may have resolved. he's walking away from us. Um, we're gonna leave to Defuse The Situation He's in a silver Silverado right away right away.

No no hey bro, do you want to go through that again? Let them come. Okay no. My brother and I have been riding around looking for a stolen bike. We just found it.

We showed the guy that it was our bike. His name is engraved in the side. The guy got very violent physical, pushed us, dropped with the bike, came at us with some pliers that's his truck right there and then as soon as uh, he heard your siren he took off on a skateboard going south. you need a bike scooter? No My brother left with the bike.

oh you bite Your brother got the bike back. yeah there was some enough separation that we had the opportunity to leave with it. so he left with it. I Told him to leave.

okay on the beach it has my brother's name engraved on the side of it, then the other one and he was like this is my bike. here's my ID that's my bike. The guy flipped out, he came at us with the pliers, he started clipping, spokes, shocked in the bike, pushing back, getting very physical and then as soon as I called you guys he took off. Okay, the bike's gone down well no my bro.

when he took off, he took off on his skateboard I told my brother to take the bike away to use that element of it. So my brother went back to his truck with the bike. I don't know what footage Dean was able to get with the GoPro but I couldn't shoot riding two bikes back from Venice that away. Uh, the cops.

The cops would like you to come back uh with the bike if possible so they can close out the report and they want to know if you want to arrest, have the guy arrested for receiving stolen property I Definitely do. Okay, then come on back. I Don't disagree. Yeah, you got to come back on the bike though.

Ride it back. All right. So now I gotta go deal with the police. Oh there he is.

Hello, Yeah, Okay so it turns out the guy in the green admitted to the cops that he knew my bike was stolen when he paid 100 bucks for it and we never caught the the actual Thief and I pressed charges not out of Vengeance but out of principle because I gave that man a chance to give my bike back peacefully and he fought for it. He came at us with the pliers I said look, I'm not gonna call the police, you have it right now yeah and then he just started on the bucks for it. give me 100 bucks So I took it and then his last line of defense was to cut spokes and hopefully those guys down in Venice get a little bit more paranoid about stealing bikes and understand that a lot of them have tracking devices in them and so forth. Dreamed of this since I lived in New York City Finally, since 1998, you never get to the party and I'm bummed because I don't have the kids see I know.

but I'll make a new one for my daughter. And while I was happy to get my bike back, you know I was bummed to put a guy in jail for having a stolen bike the day before the 4th of July on this week's Patreon only, video sewing is the second least sophisticated level of repair and the first technically significant level of repair. And I think sewing is a good entry point for working with your hands foreign.