Bike thieves foiled in dramatic pursuit by shop workers
Brazen bike thieves foiled in dramatic pursuit after nicking Bromptons from front of store and threatening to knife chasing shop manager
CCTV footage shared by AW Cycles on social media and with road.cc shows two young men wearing hoods enter the shop before almost immediately grabbing the popular folding bikes. One of the would-be thieves managed to immediately scarper from the building, while the other can be seen stumbling into the back of a startled customer, before eventually making his escape.
“You have to press a button to get through our doors, so it went, and I was aware of two young adults or teenagers walk in with their hoods up, which is not uncommon in a bike shop. However, as Dave quickly grabbed the bike and began to back away in the direction of the shop, the thief then “put his hand in his pocket and told me he was going to knife me if I didn’t drop the Brompton”.
“In the end, they turned and legged it, and we just walked back into the shop with the bikes. The whole thing took about a minute and a half from start to the finish. It all happened so quick, there was no time to think about reacting.”Despite the rapid success of their retrieval efforts, Dave says the robbery attempt is “frustrating” due to the plethora of security arrangements put in place by the shop.
“But I think what threw them was that there was a Brompton much closer to the door than normal, and the first kid went for that one, causing the second to panic. So, the fact that we’d just built that bike and it was in the wrong place actually played into our favour, and allowed us to catch them up a bit quicker.”
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