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  1. #1
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    Work colleague boasts of being ski thief - WWMD?

    This is not my work colleague. A poster on another ski forum (not Epic) had this interesting experience:

    "I found out the French chap at work is a serious skier - he owns an appartment in Meribel and goes out there 3 weeks a season. Anyway the conversation pick up, when are you going next, have you seen the snow reports etc and then we get onto the actual skis themselves. I explain I hire skis in resort. He explains that on arrival to his Meribel pad, he walks up to the liveliest looking bar in Mottaret and simply picks up and steals the latest model, he does this every year! Last year he grabbed a pair walked off with them, and found that they had been split into a ladies/gents pair for security so he just threw them away!

    Where do I go from here? I wanted to knock his head off but until then I thought he was an alright sort of bloke."

    The guy is convinced this is true, 'cause the French guy offered him a pair of cheap new(ish) skis.

    WWMD? The suggestions in the thread on the other forum were sensible but a bit bland, and possibly not very efficient (e.g. inform the Gendarmerie).
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    time to tell everyone in that town where he lives............
    which involves finding out where he lives to begin with................
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    Offer to go on a ski trip with him, then attempt to get him injured or killed. You could "adjust" his bindings, or maybe let him get first tracks on some seriously avalanche prone terrain.

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    1. Go with him.
    2. Loosen his binding screws just enough to stay on until he's really skiing.
    3. Kick him in the groin when he's down.
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    tell him karma will repay him ten-fold then,
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    3. Kick him in the groin when he's down.
    thats new hampshire as fuck


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    Light his hair on fire.
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    in the jimmy!!!


    somewhat related, 4 weeks out of 2nd ACL surgery I ripped off my joint isolator brace thingy, ran down this punk kid with a blonde mullet until I was literally 10 ft. from him but spent, and then a guy in a Big Foot Stomper-like truck bungled cornering him in a back alley, (awful cool of him to try, tho). I eventually put the kid in juvi for taking my Giant. I'd never had so much fun chasing someone in my life. They should sell that in cans.

    Kid went to juvi since he had no less than 5 other bikes loaded onto his buddy's oldsmobile. they had them strapped to the roof even, the fucks.

    whatever happened to the (two?) utard magmots who waited with shotguns after bikes were stolen? I think they were trying to bait the bastards with more bikes on the lawn or their garage doors left open at night?
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    Steal his wallet and car keys, then tell him you threw them away because the ID didn't look like you and the keys don't fit your car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Telekóptero
    whatever happened to the (two?) utard magmots who waited with shotguns after bikes were stolen? I think they were trying to bait the bastards with more bikes on the lawn or their garage doors left open at night?
    At some point, the amount of life energy spent pursuing revenge becomes greater than the satisfaction gained from catching a bike theif. Hard to believe, but true.

    Also, I covered the floor of my garage with bear traps. It's just a matter of time.

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    If he is still alive in the 05,06 season let me take him skiing......or maybee just let splat talk to him during an irrational moment!

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    You got a phone number for this guy??? I have a cheap overseas rate...

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    Trust me -- the police will never be able to do anything. He steals once a year, isn't going to get caught, and they'll never be able to prove that the skis he has were stolen.

    Does he drive a car? Cars are expensive and easily damaged, especially the tires. So are apartment windows, especially if one has a slingshot.

    I have two friends who had this happen to them. They mismatched their pairs while drinking beers in the lodge, and some asshole stole them without noticing that one was an Elan and one was a Rossignol. So they were *both* out a pair of skis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spats
    I have two friends who had this happen to them. They mismatched their pairs while drinking beers in the lodge, and some asshole stole them without noticing that one was an Elan and one was a Rossignol. So they were *both* out a pair of skis.
    i'm not so trusting when i'm around a large group of people with my skis unattended. your buddies underestimated the stupidity of a theif. you should never do that. every week i live i see something less intelligent than the last. maybe stash the skis seperatly. if the half a pair thread gets longer, then we got a problem. it sucks, but ski theft happens. a few years back they caught a bunch of people going from the bird to the gmd and taking skis off the wall. i'm told those guys got a good dose of what was coming.

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    Get the guy to take a trip to Alta. I'll set up my Spatula's in front of GMD and wait for him to snag them, I'll handle the rest. I REALLY don't like guys like that (most of us work very hard to buy our gear and go on cool trips then some fucktard callously rips them off.....).

    A few years ago I was in St. Anton and was really enjoying a late afternoon in the Crazy Kangaroo (anybody who’s been to St. Anton know how fun that place can be sometimes, this particular evening was EPIC). Me and my buddy roll out at closing with a few Aussie friends we had just made and found my new Xscream's were gone. I'm bent and want to kill. Soooo, ask the lost and found if there is anything old I can borrow to get down the hill (this bar is still 1/4 mile up the mountain from town, really fun to ski when HAMMERED). They give me an old snowboard to use as a sled and I somehow make it to town. The board gets thrown into the train tunnel at the bottom. As we stumble through town, I see my skis outside a very popular pizza place. All I can see is red at this point. I grab my skis and bolt into the joint. Once in the middle of about 100 drunk and hungry skiers, I start yelling for whomever stole these skis to meet me outside (I tried English, Italian and a little German). All I got was 100 blank stares and a boot in the ass as the owner of the shop escorted me out (really big Austrian guy who had not been drinking for 7 hours). At least I got my skis back. And a killer hangover.
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    This guy has to have some kind of smarts to get a pair of skis with the bindings mounted at the right length. That being said, it would apper to me that he would be easily caught trying all the nicer skis on the rack. Unless he takes them to a shop and gets a remount. This story seems redic to me. Let him rot in hell if its true..... and hopefully all the people that used to have nice skis that he stole will be repayed somehow with good karma.

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    Erm - You tell him that he's a piece of shit for being a thief. That usually gets the point across. I'm sorry, but if someone tells me he's a thief of ANY kind - skis or otherwise - he's far from an "okay sort of bloke."
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