Note to bicycle thief: You're a "piece of s***"

[Jazzy]

CHICAGO - A 19-year-old Chicago woman just couldn't contain her anger and frustration when her almost-new $700 bicycle was stolen this week. CBS Chicago reports she posted a boldly handwritten note near the bike rack where the crime was committed.

"To the piece of s*** that stole my bike from this bike rack. Do you know how hard I worked to buy that bike?

The note-lashing went on from there:

"Actually, you stole it WHILE I was at work," she wrote. "I'm 19 and I payed (sic) for it completely out of my own pocket. I work 40 hours a week. I go to school part-time. And that bike was my only form of transportation."

"I'm usually very passive and calm. But it was just one of those moments where I was like, I can't do this," the note's author, Olgi Freyre, told CBS Chicago.

Her bike was stolen in the middle of the day - from the rack right outside her workplace, the station reported.

"I'm going to just write something mean for the world to see," she said.

She said she's not sure she'll ever see her bike again, but she says she feels better for having gone public.

"I think it should be something that people know about. Even if it is very crude," she said.

The story about her angry note caught the attention of of a man named Bob Curry, who remembered how it felt to have his own bike stolen.

He and his daughter took Freyre to a bike shop, and bought her a new one.

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Proves there are still nice people left in this world.

 

[The Dragon Master]

At least there was a good ending to it. Though I do hope the guy who stole her bike get's what's coming to him.

 

[Jazzy]

Not sure why she felt the need to buy a $700 bicycle. That's quite expensive and not very frugal. Heck, for that amount of money, she could have bought seven $100 bicycles. This way if one is stolen, she has replacements.

 

[Raven]

My friend had his £600 bike stolen this year, that was the only way he got around, informed the police but it was never found.

Nice of someone to buy her one.

 

[Nebulous]

Well all's well that end's well. That is a pretty expensive bike though!