It's so nice to hear a story of a theft averted, you guys rock!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Peters</b> <<a href="mailto:leepeters@gis.net">leepeters@gis.net</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dude,<br> I saw you riding shotgun and wondered.... I didn't know if you were<br>
involved or not. It was unusual to see a fellow biker in the front seat of<br>a cruiser. I was standing right there when the unmarked car stopped in the<br>middle of Mass Ave. I just didn't know if it had anything to do with me.
<br><br>You helped a fellow CM'er ( and I go to a lot of these ) AND ALL BIKERS,<br>YOU ARE THE KING OF COOL!<br><br>I have a description, a half cut cable, and maybe finger prints !!<br><br>It's Miller time, or a better beer to match your heroics.
<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Andrew J Heining" <<a href="mailto:andrewjh@gmail.com">andrewjh@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org
</a>><br>Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 9:51 PM<br>Subject: Re: [*BCM*] back bay thefts (Lee Peters)<br><br><br>This is SO COOL!!!<br>Lee,<br>I was across the street by the Christian Science Church when you came<br>
out of Economy and saw them. I'm happy to report that I was on my bike<br>when the one guy ran across the street, and I chased after him,<br>following him for several blocks, yelling out for people to call the<br>police. One guy eventually did, and he joined the chase.
<br>I followed the thief through some alleys until he got tired of me<br>yelling "Call the police! This guy's stealing bikes!" and (to the guy)<br>"you're going down, suckah!" We were outside of the Summer Shack when
<br>he stopped and walked toward me, telling me to "mind my business." I<br>told him it WAS my business, as he was stealing bikes and I'd had one<br>stolen from the same area last year.<br>Anyway, he came at me, swung his bag with the bolt cutters in it at
<br>me, and we got into a scuffle. At one point we had him pinned down<br>(the guy who'd called the police joined me in trying to hold him), but<br>he escaped, and my bike's chain had come off in the fracas, so I<br>
didn't follow the thief as he ran up the street and around the corner.<br>But just then a police car showed up. The cop told me to hop in, so I<br>jumped in to ride shotgun! The other guy (the good samaritan) told me<br>
he'd hold my bike.<br>We drove around the area, with me looking for the thief and the cop<br>radioing in his description – sirens and lights and everything! We<br>even drove through the Christian Science Plaza looking for him! When
<br>we got to the church's fountain, a call came in over the radio that<br>they'd spotted the suspect and were in pursuit, and the cop told me to<br>get out and wait there at the fountain. I did, and sure enough, he
<br>came back 10 minutes later.<br>He took me to the scene of my "fight" with the thief, and I picked up<br>my bike from the good samaritan. I followed the cop to where they had<br>the suspect in custody, and both of us were able to ID him as the bad
<br>guy. The cops took our statements, and it looks like the guy's gonna<br>be charged with assault with a deadly weapon (the bag with the bolt<br>cutters in it), attempted larceny, and being in possession of burglary
<br>tools. How cool is that!?<br>I'm so glad your bike is safe and sound, and that we've gotten one of<br>Boston's bad guys off the street.<br>Lee, I'm sure the police would be interested to know that he took a
<br>swing at you with the bolt cutters, so email me and we'll find a way<br>to get that in the police report.<br>Score one for the good guys!!<br>-Andrew<br>_______________________________________________<br>Boston Critical Mass mailing list
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