Outsmart the thief
He had his bicycle stolen and just a week later, it appeared on Craiglist. The person who stole the bike was the one attempting to sell the bike and he noticed it.
He contacted the seller to arrange a meeting at a nearby store and when he arrived, he was looking at the bike and saw that it was his, no doubt it was his bike.
He made up a simple plan.
He said he would like to take it for a test ride. Luckily for him, the bike owner was not the brightest and said he could do that, but told him not to ride off.
But he did.
Just like that he was off, there was no confrontation, no police report to try and prove ownership to someone who knew they had stolen it. Basically, everything he had to do, he didn’t, he walked right out of there with his bike.
What a funny karma. The thief has no choice than to let the bike go, he can't file a report of stolen bike because tracing it back, the police could find out it's not his. What's making it worse is the one he took it is the original owner.
Can we try to debate the morality of that type of behavior. If you think for a second the original owner didn't do right then perhaps you have never had something that belonged to you taken and then been told to go through a system where you have to fight for it to get it back legally.
He saw the bike, the man who had taken it gave him the chance and he took it.
The bike belonged to him and taking it back was just common sense. The only rule the thief had set in place was the wrong one, stealing in the first place.
Of course, I understand that sense of satisfaction, of justice, of contentment. The thief was in the wrong! It’s just that... our friend here felt he was in the right, but didn’t really behave any better. I think I would have confronted the culprit when he tried to sell it...