Follow-up on stolen helmet

When I stopped for din­ner tonight and parked my bike in front of the restau­rant where I could keep an eye on it, I went to lock my new hel­met to the bike and found that the lock would not close. While not imme­di­ate­ly vis­i­ble, on clos­er day­light inspec­tion it’s clear that the hel­met lock was pried open. It’s bent and tool-marked. So, that means that did lock the hel­met, and not just space cadet leave it to be taken.

Cold com­fort, but I can stop kick­ing myself now.

I won­der if I now have an insur­ance claim to get the replace­ment hel­met paid for. My insur­ance com­pa­ny said that they would­n’t cov­er it, but I think that they will cov­er replac­ing the lock. On the oth­er hand, why would I both­er replac­ing the lock? It’s clear­ly useless.

Duende—Deleri­um

3 Replies to “Follow-up on stolen helmet”

  1. Spark plug tubes = Crack­head
    Spark plug tubes = Crack­head McGyver impro­vised crack pipe.

    Appar­ent­ly the tubes stand up to heat quite nicely.

    Although it puz­zles me that a crack­head would find them­selves in a sit­u­a­tion where they:

    Have actu­al crack.
    Have a good source of flame to com­bust their afore­men­tioned crack.
    Have the tools need­ed to break off a spark plug
    But have no crack­pipe handy. 

    I start­ed zip tie’ing old plugs to the frame of my ’76 CB 750 sev­er­al months ago.

    Today as I went to start my bike (parked overnight out­side my g/f’s apt.) it did­n’t. First place I looked was the plugs. Sure enough, the cap was removed from the right side plug. BUT the plug was still there, so all I had to do was re-attach the lead.

    The offend­ing crack­head must have start­ed the nor­mal removal pro­ce­dure (usu­al­ly by bash­ing it out w/ a rock) then saw my gift plug, took it and left.

    Saved me a lot of trou­ble, and I got to work on time!

    If you haven’t start­ed doing this I urge you not to delay.

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