What to Expect When You're Filing a Police Report (A Pretty Easy Time, As It Turns Out)

Last Monday, my Giant bicycle was stolen while I was in Muay Thai class. I left it in the bike parking lot on the west side of Sanlitun SOHO. Though it wasn't locked to anything stationary (first mistake), it had two locks – one in the front, one in the back – and was left in full sight of several people in a parking lot I'd used before. In total, I was gone for just over an hour.

After I realized it was gone, I paced up and down the lot several times and asked a security guard if Sanlitun SOHO had any security cameras. "Yes, but they're not pointed in this direction," he said. Really? Your security footage doesn't extend to the parking lot, where theft is most likely? OK then.

In the end, I spoke to a police officer and filed a police report a few days later. And you know what? The process was pretty easy. Here's what happened.

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Giovanni Martini wrote:

As the recipient of numerous restraining orders, I think I can speak with authority here. What Beijing needs is a 24k superhero. Any chance of getting the Black Panther now that he got 86'ed from Guang Dong fast food joints? But whatever you do, remember do not take matters into your own hands. The fastidious Chinese are dead-set inimical to receiving a Chicago sun-roof.

Gio you mention Chicago alot, are you from there.

~~“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~~.

And after you file a police report, you get your stolen goods back.

Not bloody likely.

britomart wrote:

And after you file a police report, you get your stolen goods back.

??

I paced up and down the lot several times and asked a security guard if Sanlitun SOHO had any security cameras. "Yes, but they're not CONNECTED...

More likely.

The Police just went through a formality. Have they found your bike?

And after you file a police report, you get your stolen goods back.

??

Doubt wisely; in strange way / To stand inquiring right is not to stray; / To sleep, or run wrong, is. (Donne, Satire III)