“Dear PoPville,
Thought I’d give a heads up to residents living in the Adams Morgan area that bike thefts have been happening.
From what we could figure out, someone climbed over the locked back gate with a busted up wooden ladder at around 4am on Friday, August 12th. The individual used the ladder to climb up and onto our balcony, stole my mounted bicycle, climbed back down the ladder and left leaving behind some rope and this ladder at the scene. Which absolutely creeps me out because this was definitely premeditated.
We asked around and it turns out my neighbor who also lives on the second floor and kept their bike on the balcony also had their bike stolen on the same night. I filed a police report, but I know MPD won’t be able to do a whole lot about a stolen bike.
I’ve been told it’s almost like a right of passage for living in D.C to have your bicycle stolen.
Just wanted to get the word out to people that no bikes are safe, even on a second story balcony!
P.S- if anyone sees a plum-purple Specialized Sirrus 1.0 bike that I had for only 3 months, tell it I miss it!”