I had the opportunity late into the evening of January 6th 2012 at approx 2:30 am to catch this kid stealing a pair of ski's from the back door of the house in Revelstoke. quickly ran out the door when i seen the jacket flash by the back door when he grabbed the ski's turned around and left rather quickly, I yelled at him to stop since he had a head start and it was icy and i had no idea who else was around. He then turns around gives me back the ski's, apologizes for taking the ski's saying he was drunk, was from Red Deer and staying at the Sandman. For what ever reason, i said well smarten up and let him walk, then I had a brain wave, told him to stop and turn around which he did and i snapped a photo of him with my iphone, just before i let him walk away. The owner of the house then asked if i wanted to call the cops, which i replied they'll be hours as that the case in Calgary. Then i decided to jump into the truck and see if he was going to the Sandman, at which time i was asked again if the cops should be called and then thought what the hell, much to my surprise they were there in under a minute. So with my truck and 3 patrol cars we looked around, till 3:00 am for this kid. Tried a couple of times to e-mail the photo of the kid to the RC's which didn't pan out. So then saturday night, I went to the police station after a day of riding, to try downloading the photo there, with in 3 minutes of talking to three officers, 2 of them instantly recognized him as a home grown local and that he's known to the police. I then asked the police if it was okay to post a picture of him on some websites as a thief. Reply was, well you caught him in the act on your property stealing private property go ahead. So Mr Thief no names mentioned here's your 15 minutes of fame forever!!! i think this worked out better then what most people would have done, like beat the crap out of him.
So if you want to preserve your karma points don't buy anything from this kid as it's 99.95% sure it's stolen.
So if you want to preserve your karma points don't buy anything from this kid as it's 99.95% sure it's stolen.