“It was stolen out of my garage in Ivy City yesterday and I’m devastated.”

Ed. Note: Any tips/sightings can be sent to [email protected]

“Dear PoPville,

I was wondering if I can get a little help with my attempt to get my scooter back. It was stolen out of my garage in Ivy City yesterday and I’m devastated.

A little back story: when the pandemic first hit I was working at NBC4. I was living in NoMa with roommates but decided to stay with my partner and her family in McLean since she drove and the metro wasn’t running. I also worked the overnight shift so the metro wouldn’t have been any use to me anyway. Anyway after the first case of Covid at my job, my partners family freaked out (for good reason) and I got the boot back to NoMa. For months I biked in the sweltering summer heat from NoMa all the way to the tv station in Tenleytown. I’d bike in the rain, at midnight, during the curfew due to the George Floyd protests. As the summer months tapered off and things cooled down I grew to enjoy that peaceful bike ride but i still was fearful that one late night someone knucklehead would try to knock me off my bike. One night after a long shift my mom drove from Baltimore to surprise me with a motorcycle helmet for my new scooter that would soon ease my fears biking home alone at night and my tired body from biking up Woodley Rd in the summer heat. I loved that scooter. It gave me freedom and safety in a time when my world was very scary. My mom who doesn’t have a lot of money bought me that scooter. She worked hard for it. I worked hard to maintain it.

Though I have moved on to a new job and I know longer rely on my scooter out of pure necessity it is so important to me and I would love to have it back. I think if someone knew the journey it took for me to get that scooter that might have thought twice about stealing it. I am hopeful that some kind person will see someone with it or see it abandoned on the street or it’ll make it’s way into one of the local motorcycle/scooter shops. If you could help me get the word out or have any ideas on how I can get the word out I would greatly appreciate it!”

Ed. Note: Any tips/sightings can be sent to [email protected]