The Mystery of the Abandoned Bike

[number six]

So somebody parked this bike in front of our house at some point Friday afternoon and left it there. I'm no bike expert but it looks new.

How did this come to be?

The popular answer was somebody stole it then for whatever reason got scared and ditched it. Since it looks newish we'd assume it was stolen from a store. The only store anywhere near us that would sell a bike is Wal-Mart which is about 2 miles away. The question that then raises.. if you managed to make it 2 miles away from said Wal-Mart one would assume you were home free so why ditch it in a neighborhood? Something we may never know.

Looking it up online it's apparently a Huffy Nighthawk.. a poorly reviewed cheap $100 Mountain Bike, so the Wal-Mart theory gets a nod there.

Other theories would include surprise heart attack or alien abduction.. but those may be less likely.

At least our Neighborhood is pretty honest as the bike has sat there undisturbed all day and all night. Of course it also sat in multiple rains so it's getting a bit rusty. Good quality that.

[SpineyNorman]

It was Old Man Jenkins...and he'd have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids.

[k7]

why was that not in your garage friday later-that-afternoon? 

free bike friday. i've heard of it...when i thought of it right now.

[Weeze]

i'd think more like some kid swiped it to shorten the trip and had to leave it somewhere when he was done with it because he probably stole it in his own neighborhood. Couldn"t keep it, the owner would see it.
 Give it to the cops, hopefully they will give it to charity, ya know? get a kid a bike that they wouldnt have otherwise.
just my 2 cents
 Unless Frank and Joe, after giving a sheepish grin, turned to thier good friend Chet Morton and said We'd like to see your sister, Iola, ride that without her panties.
 Meanwhile , down on Bayshore road in Bayport, Fenton Hardy continued to seek the origin of the mysterious "bike in blue" mystery, knowing Frank and Joe with thier other good friend Tony Priola, had the inside scoop on why Iola Martin really really liked to ride that bike."
 Fenton Hardy

[TheBatman]

Yes, call the cops, if it was stolen and is brand new then it was very likely reported to them. If you claim it and somebody spots you riding on it there's no way in hell they're going to believe somebody just left it in the middle of your yard for you. So let them find it's rightful owner, or somebody worthy.

[Weeze]

 chapter 8, "Mystery of the Abandoned Nike" by Franklin W. Dixon

 Frank looked up and saw Callie Shaw walking in her bikini along the water. Callie was the girl he liked the most from Bayshore High school even though all the girls liked Frank. Frank had in fact had carnal relations with most of the junior girls , even that freshmen Iola Martin , his friends sister. Frank liked Callie more then all the other girls because she had a secret talent. Since all the girls liked Frank he had his pick of them all, but he still liked Callie best.
 Soon Joe Hardy showed up with their friend Biff Hooper and Biff had his metal detector. Biff began his gentle swaying of the detector back and forth along the water line hoping to find gold dubloons  and pieces of eight lost in the wreck of the Pleabian galleon " Les Klassic des Deusch" in 1508. He had come very close to finding coins like the ones they found in the previously written "The Tower Treasure" , by Franklin W. Dixon, available at any Wolworths or Kmart. The fact that those coins were found in a tower built in 1940, 243 miles away from the shoreline was of little importance to Biff as he was Bayshore High Schools, 2nd string special teams player on the JV football team.
 Biff had the proof that he was getting close by his toy bucket with 14 pop tops, some aluminum foil, and a nail that he found in previous excursions along the beach. Suddenly the metal detector start to emit its annoying screech indicating he had found something and boy it must be big! Digging down into the soft Long Island sand the treasure was revealed! It was a Bicycle lock and by the lack of rust and discoloring Biff instantly recognized that it must be new! Was it the bicycle lock from the abandoned bike found outside number 6's door? Had it been cast aside by the thief or perhaps it was used to smash the crap outta Chet Morton's head after Chet had uttered the words "Chet and Biff sittin' in a tree........"!
 Next up Chapter 9, Does Biff worry about those strange sores or has Chet in fact been hanging with Frank Hardy again?
Read the next thrilling chapter of Franklin W. Dixon's "The mystery of the abandoned bike" or buy the condensed Reader's Digest magazine available at any KMart or Woolwurths department stores!

[number six]

why was that not in your garage friday later-that-afternoon? 

free bike friday. i've heard of it...when i thought of it right now.

It's a pretty garbage bike, plus i'm old.. seems like a good way to injure myself at this point.

[number six]

Give it to the cops, hopefully they will give it to charity, ya know? get a kid a bike that they wouldnt have otherwise.
just my 2 cents

Yes, call the cops, if it was stolen and is brand new then it was very likely reported to them. If you claim it and somebody spots you riding on it there's no way in hell they're going to believe somebody just left it in the middle of your yard for you. So let them find it's rightful owner, or somebody worthy.

You guys must live in a magical place where the cops care about things that don't generate profits. Alas, I don't live in such a place.

[number six]

chapter 8, "Mystery of the Abandoned Nike" by Franklin W. Dixon

 Frank looked up and saw Callie Shaw walking in her bikini along the water. Callie was the girl he liked the most from Bayshore High school even though all the girls liked Frank. Frank had in fact had carnal relations with most of the junior girls , even that freshmen Iola Martin , his friends sister. Frank liked Callie more then all the other girls because she had a secret talent. Since all the girls liked Frank he had his pick of them all, but he still liked Callie best.
 Soon Joe Hardy showed up with their friend Biff Hooper and Biff had his metal detector. Biff began his gentle swaying of the detector back and forth along the water line hoping to find gold dubloons  and pieces of eight lost in the wreck of the Pleabian galleon " Les Klassic des Deusch" in 1508. He had come very close to finding coins like the ones they found in the previously written "The Tower Treasure" , by Franklin W. Dixon, available at any Wolworths or Kmart. The fact that those coins were found in a tower built in 1940, 243 miles away from the shoreline was of little importance to Biff as he was Bayshore High Schools, 2nd string special teams player on the JV football team.
 Biff had the proof that he was getting close by his toy bucket with 14 pop tops, some aluminum foil, and a nail that he found in previous excursions along the beach. Suddenly the metal detector start to emit its annoying screech indicating he had found something and boy it must be big! Digging down into the soft Long Island sand the treasure was revealed! It was a Bicycle lock and by the lack of rust and discoloring Biff instantly recognized that it must be new! Was it the bicycle lock from the abandoned bike found outside number 6's door? Had it been cast aside by the thief or perhaps it was used to smash the crap outta Chet Morton's head after Chet had uttered the words "Chet and Biff sittin' in a tree........"!
 Next up Chapter 9, Does Biff worry about those strange sores or has Chet in fact been hanging with Frank Hardy again?
Read the next thrilling chapter of Franklin W. Dixon's "The mystery of the abandoned bike" or buy the condensed Reader's Digest magazine available at any KMart or Woolwurths department stores!

Haha

[RAW POWER]

We never found out what Callie Shaw's special talent is.

[Weeze]

How forgetful we get in our old age, eh?
  Callie's special talent was revealed back in volumn 2  "The Secret of the purple phalus", by  Franklin W. Dixon available at all Woolworths and Kmarts everywhere.
 Don't forget to keep a eye out for  "The case of the mumbling hummer" by Franklin W. Dixon available at all Woolworth's and KMarts everywhere this fall!     

[Weeze]

 When I was in the 3rd grade I red Hardy Boys books. They didn't really have them at the library so they had to be purchased, pretty much always new which was a tough thing as money wasn't all that plentiful in my early days. But I got a few, and I traded them to other 3rd grade boys and even 4th grade boys so that helped. The style, the vocabulary used was always the same. I think I read that the original writer may have been  woman and she wrote the early ones and continued to do so for many years. If I remember correctly, she also wrote NANCY DREW novels. I'd think if you got the correct NANCY DREW book the story would be exactly the same as one of the HARDY BOYS books except for the name of the story and the individual characters, locations were the only differences.
 One day , as mysteriously as they had appeared, they were no longer of interest. Everything about the stories were too simple, too similiar, and the vocabulary level was too juvenile for my wicked little bratty mind. I then moved on to books that were not in a series, that dealt with history mostly.
 I guess soon after grade schoolers no longer read these books what with TV and other distractions. Of course today getting kids to read any book, any story, has become thought of as a punishment.
 Seems odd that other people do not remember the Hardy Boys world because for that short time period the stories poked my imagination and would take president over any and all tv programs thats for sure.
 SO , now that I have totally hijacked NUMBER 6's post, I apologize for that, sometimes I just get carried away with my writing and Im sure most people have no interest in my personal insights into the past.
 NUMBER 6,  WHATS THE UPDATE ON THE BIKE? ya call the cops or fixed it into reasonable shape to be ridden or what? Inquiring minds want to know!

[number six]

I posted a message about the bike on the neighborhood website.. mostly where people bitch about solicitors and post about lost cats.

Anyhoo, somebody said they found the rightful owner.. apparently somebody took it on a joyride and bailed? I dunno.. that or some body got a free bike and said they returned it.. I honestly don't know nor care as long as it's off the sidewalk.

Although if somebody stole your bike and drove it down the street I'd imagine you'd notice before a few days? Perhaps some mysteries are just that.

[Weeze]

; Well you can take solace in the fact that you did try and may have succeeded in doing the right thing. These days 1/3 of this coutry no longer believe in that, don't know why that is.
 Chapter 10, "The Mystery of the Abandoned Bike" by Franklin W. Dixon .
 "Meanwhile under the bleachers at the far end of the football field Joe Hardy had Iola Martin's shirt off.  He knew his friend  Chet Morton, Iola's brother was a brute and probably wouldn't appreciate his friend Joe's interest in his sister's pudendum. Joe knew that Iola was very naive to such matters as she thought that bowing air into a balloon was a blowjob. She just couldn't understand why Joe's Aunt Gertrude was a favorite with the whole football team because she allegedly had blown up  all their  balloons for the homecoming dance.
 At the same Time, the Hardy Boy's good friend Biff Hooper was on to solving the crime by what he believed could be the anserw to the entire mystery. After , exactly how many bike locks could have been sold in Bayport? This sounded like a great idea, all he would have to do is inquire at "Pasquale's Bike Shop" , As he opened his phone book to the yellow pages he suddenly had a revelation, there were, in fact, 127 bike shops in Bayport making the finding of the seller of the bike lock he had nearly impossible to trace. Totally dejected, he went over to his friend's house, K7, where he spent the rest of the day crying to K7's mama and sucking his thumb.
 Read the next thrilling chapter of Franklin W. Dixons "The Mystery of the Abandoned bke" available at all Woolworth's and KMarts everywhere!

[Don Panetta aka 404]

The story playing out in front of Six's house