I have a video I could post but there wouldn't be any audio because a half dozen homeless people were yelling at me for not being oh-so-chill while this thief had my parts on his bike and was dragging ass getting them off of it. When I said I could just call the police to settle it with surveillance feeds from any one of the 50 cameras in the area, they all scattered.
Got off the express south at Sunnyvale, CA around 5:15ish, walked up to my bike and the handlebars were missing. Walked over to Walt's Bikes a couple of blocks away to ask if anyone had tried to sell some parts today, they said no. Couple of homeless dudes who were replacing tubes on their own bikes were outside, said they knew exactly which handlebars I was talking about, and described them to me. The shorter one said he knew who had them and took me to the guy, who was in the open space across from the Caltrain station, next to Philz Coffee. We argued, he tried to say he bought them from someone (the guys in front of Walt's had already told me otherwise), and decided that he would just give them back, making sure that he threw all of the parts on the ground for me to pick up as he took them off of his bike.
dude was definitely armed with a knife and was only hesitant to get stabby because I pointed out there were a ton of cameras and witnesses - knife isn't big, but is definitely in a few of these photos of him
I'm *positive* the bike he was on was stolen, was spraypainted over and had some random stuff written on it, but not an original paint job. I couldn't tell the model, but that was not for me to deal with right then
Honestly, if he had stolen the seat, I would have considered just riding home anyway, but no handlebars?? That makes me want to go find ya
Mildly infuriating because handlebars are not worth the trouble I could have found myself in with this moron, but just enough to piss me off at the end of a long day
INB4 Trashcan Carla because she reminds you of your mom
Steak and fries, and a tiny coke. Going to go get some sunshine later. At peace with it all
As the title says, I auctioned off a vintage Yaesu FT-2500M on ebay, as-is and untested but otherwise mint condition with all original packaging, starting at $1 with no reserve, and the buyer (who seems to know about and sell radios given their account name and market page) is now initiating a return on the radio because the memory won't recall any programmed channels after the device is turned off.
The coin battery in this radio has got to be original, so it would have needed replaced at least 3 times since the radio was first sold if it were going to keep working. This person is returning something that was sold fairly and described fairly because they don't understand what they bought when they act very much like they do in fact understand this sort of stuff - anyone else run across this sort of behavior with vintage radio sales/buying? This would only take the purchase of a tabbed battery, a screwdriver, a basic soldering iron and about 10 minutes of work to fix, and for someone who acts like they know and sell radios, should be a no-brainer
I mean, I won't watch it either
But only because I'm busy hanging out with my kickass girlfriend who can deadlift a basement dweller's body weight
I have an Akira key master background with 3 cels as pictured above - these were photographed for the Macek catalog in 1989, and are from the film about 6 minutes in. Clown bikers each on their own cel with a bush/wall cel in front of the Tokyo night city background painting. I'm in the Bay area, not really interested in auction or eBay. Ready to part ways with this, but not sure where to go to sell it
ETA: not interested in heritage. if you're interested, dm me
I have an Akira key master background with 3 cels as pictured above - these were photographed for the Macek catalog in 1989, and are from the film about 6 minutes in. Clown bikers each on their own cel with a bush/wall cel in front of the Tokyo night city background painting. I'm in the Bay area, not really interested in auction or eBay. Ready to part ways with this else, but not sure where to go to sell it
