Bicycle stolen from Condo

[Pinched mine too]

I did report it to the Police as I did have contents insurance. The Police showed up very quickly and spent time dusting for fingerprints etc, which I thought was quite immpressive/funny. The insurance company managed to deny my claim anyway due to some fine print stating that any one claim can not be more than 5% of the sum insured, unles it is AV equipment or a Piano... I was gutted.

5% of sum insured???  That blows. Talk about using fine print as a get out of jail card. You were robbed twice mate- the bike and insurance premium.

[Lance Notstrong]

Proves what I always thought:

Bicycle stealing is a vicious cycle

[Raj T]

Had my bicycle stolen from my condo today. Feels awful
, made a police complaint but don't have much hope.

[Best 2]

It's best to cart the bike to your unit. Either leave it in a secure hallway or hang it from the utility room ceiling. We had some idiots march down our driveway and steal 2 bikes one day when the gardener left the gate open while blowing leaves. This in a quiet, leafy neighbourhood. "Low crime doesn't mean no crime".

[Low Crime?]

Such thefts are an epidemic here.  I never heard of a stolen bike in the US (city with pop of approx 1mil) since I and anyone I knew lived in good areas.  Here, I can name at least 6 cases of people that I know.

[JudgeDread]

The Aussie teenage drug smuggler in Bali has been let off with 2 months in the slammer.

[old man river]

So cry me a river for god's sakes. You've had a bicycle stolen and you lot are whinging and crying poor expat.

If you can't afford insurance or a decent bike lock or a place with good security then DILLIGAF?

[typical]

pp, assuming every expat has dispensable money and doesn't value goods. Singapore is a throw away consumer society, so figures there are assumptions about everyone else.

[Trek]

Just had my 5k Trek carbon frame nicked from outside my apartment. Gutted - I just hope it gets to ride buket tima again and not the streets of little india

[On yer bike]

Dude, it's long gone somewhere in Malaysia by now.

I once saw a driver of a flatbed, one of those old wooden ones that come in from Malaysia carrying veggies and what-not, get out of his cabin, pick up a parked bike and toss it into the back of his truck in one swift movement.

[Yes but]

It may be that there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for the missing bike? Could it be that you were intoxicated? Hmmmm? Could it? 

[SPF Detective]

You see, the bike wasn't stolen.  It's only "missing".  You went to a pub last Tuesday and had four beers.  Clearly the latter is the cause of the former.

Case closed. 

[Agreed]

This man is clearly an alcoholic and therefore cannot be trusted to own a bike without losing it.

Nothing to see here. As you were gentlemen.