{"id":24275,"date":"2014-05-09T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145710.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=24275"},"modified":"2014-05-09T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:34:01","slug":"electric-bike-thief-returns-bike-owner-taxi-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/electric-bike-thief-returns-bike-owner-taxi-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Bike Thief Returns Bike To Owner In Taxi (It’s Complicated)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ben<\/a>
Ben Jaconelli and his GoCycle electric bike.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A prompt return of a recently stolen GoCycle electric bike makes this a fun and somewhat full-circle story. It also explores theft in the modern-day age of communications and electric vehicles. The facts as we are aware: A GoCycle electric bike was stolen in London but came back to the owner via taxi cab, delivered back at the GoCycle warehouse. Confused? Read on….<\/p>\n

From road.cc<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Ben Jaconelli had left the bike securely locked on Hackney\u2019s Kingsland Road, but returned after 20 minutes to find it was gone.<\/p>\n

He reported the theft to the police, but resigned himself to the worst until he received an unexpected phone call.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old happens to own e-bike online retailerFullycharged.com<\/a>\u00a0and recently opened a shop on Old Street roundabout.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also the authorised GoCycle dealer for the area, making him a rather obvious \u2013 if poorly-thought-out \u2013 point of contact for the person who had taken his bike once it ran out of power.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thief called me, unaware that it was my bike,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe asked for a charger for a Go Cycle and I knew straight away it had to be the thief.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took down as many details for him as possible and then set about tracking him down.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the guys at our warehouse has an old army truck so we piled in to that and turned up at his house.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was out, but his bemused mother was in and she got straight on the phone to her son to demand to know why he wanted an electric bike charger.<\/p>\n

\u201cA minute later he called me and asked why I was at his house and I said \u2018you stole my bike.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cHe hung up and 20 minutes later the bike arrived at the warehouse in a taxi.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oy, what a world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A prompt return of a recently stolen GoCycle electric bike makes this a fun and somewhat full-circle story. It also explores theft in the modern-day age of communications and electric vehicles. The facts as we are aware: A GoCycle electric bike was stolen in London but came back to the owner via taxi cab, delivered …<\/p>\n

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