Though nothing to do with bike theft, I thought you may be interested in an incident that happened to me and a customer of mine just before I retired from the motor trade. The customer, a scaffolding contractor, rang me one night just as we were closing down for the day. Their problem was that one of their trucks had broken down on the A63 with a suspected broken accelerator linkage. The driver had managed to park the vehicle, a Ford Cargo, on a lay by just outside of Hull, where my garage was based. The customer said it would be ok for me to pick up the driver the following morning, repair the truck and let the driver return to his depot in Hull. So off I went to the local Ford truck dealer and collected various ball joints and things that night, ready for the job in hand the next morning.
Bright and early the next day I collected the driver from his work place, made sure he had the keys, and travelled down the A63 to the lay by to the broken down vehicle. By now you'll know where I'm going with this tale! We travelled up and down the A63 looking for the truck. We thought we had gone to the wrong lay by at first, but slowly it dawned on us that some low life had stolen it. The tw@ts had either repaired the truck? or towed it away. To this day I don't know how they had the nerve to do it. It's not the same as breaking in, forcing the steering lock and driving off, rather smartly. We never saw that truck again.....
