Watch this Video of Citibike Thieves Caught in the Act in Brooklyn Heights

By on August 9, 2014 9:58 pm in crime

BHB contributor/reader Peter Kaufman caught a gang of alleged Citibike thieves red handed Friday night as they returned to retrieve their stolen booty from the service entrance of 62 Pierrepont Street. And he has the video to prove it.

Kaufman recounts to us what happened (via Twitter):

Last night some kids stole 4 Citibikes and put them in a basement stairwell. We called Citibike and as we were helping load them kids came back

By time i got downstairs, Citibike guy was there.

I was helping him take bikes to the Citi-van when the culprits returned to claim stash.The chase was on.

Here the two I caught up with at corner of Clinton and Montague. Past 2 cop cars. No cops inside.

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“Why you taking pictures of me?” Why do you think, mother-f*cker? The other guys – like 3 others, 1 on bike, had split down clinton.

After our little tete-a-tete, a cop car did come by, but they had lights on, and were on run. Couldn’t give a shit about this minor issue.

When i got back to 62 pierrepont, the citibike guy had gone around the block looking for me. couldn’t believe how fast i had taken off.

i said, ‘not bad for an old man, (i’m 49). He said, “Old man, like Hell.” I credited good living and citibike charter membership.

kicking myself for not using one of the citibikes to tail them, but again, what could i really do when i ‘got’ them? Citibike guy said..

this wasn’t an infreq. occurrence. people don’t dock bikes properly, and kids test for it. he picks quite a few up in BX. even one in NJ.

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  • MonroeOrange

    Actually Peter…people get tickets all the time in the subway for fare beating. And the reason the cops enforce that, is bc we as taxpayers pay for the MTA.

    I could care less that the police don’t waste their time, chasing kids stealing bikes from the rack (victimless crime). If these kids were mugging people that is different story.

  • petercow

    As for what I choose to do.. “mind your own business”.

    And it’s “couldn’t care less”.

  • petercow

    I don’t disagree with you. And we don’t know the circumstances here.. improper docking, or perhaps the docks were busted.

  • George C. Linton

    Big ups for calling everyone else out for lack of analysis or *helpful* observation… and then adding neither.

  • Dr. D’Amato

    You made it our business when YOU PUBLISHED IT ON THE INTERNET. And I am pretty sure he could care less, say if he were dead, he wouldn’t care at all.

  • Eddyde

    As usual, another idiotic comment from MO.

  • Eddyde

    As usual, another idiotic comment from MO.

  • Eddyde

    Ignore MO, she is a troll that always blasts Citibike issues.

  • Eddyde

    Ignore MO, she is a troll that always blasts Citibike issues.

  • Eddyde

    Hey at least Peter has a pair and tried to do something. You are obviously a just a sniveling coward.

  • Dr. D’Amato

    Tough day at work? Let’s keep things civil, Ed.

  • petercow

    FYI, I didn’t think they were running yet, but they were. Our new security cams caught some faces..

  • ujh

    Away for a while, so my comment is late and may not be read. Re NYPD presence in BBP, I see a patrol car occasionally but usually late at night when only the Pier 2 basketball courts and the Pier 5 picnic tables are still busy. My impression is also fewer cleaners than during the first two years and, consequently, more refuse on walkways and lawns while attendance has mushroomed, or the same number but now deployed over a substantially larger area. The fitness section is overrun by unsupervised children until late at night, and at least one piece of equipment has broken lately at any one time.

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