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Hey there my watchers, friends and potential stalkers.
I wanted to give you guys an update on what was happening with my stolen scooter now that it’s been roughly 24 hours.

To recap sometime between 7pm and 10pm on Wednesday night my 125 maroon and silver coloured Fonta motor scooter was stolen from my place of work, from a relatively observable to the public car park.

When I discovered it was missing after work I went to the police and filed a report and gave a description of the bike and then my dad took me home (that was nice of him)

And now for the new information: around 4am that next morning (i.e. six hours later) I got a knock on the door from two police officers who had come to tell me that they had managed to locate my scooter upside down and damaged and that it was at the police station awaiting pick up in the morning. Though it seems they found it independently of the police report since they didn’t realise it had been stolen.

Come the morning my dad volunteers his help and we hire a trailer to go pick up my bike. We find it in a deplorable condition. The Ignition was torn out (probably in order to unlock the steering column and allow the bike to be moved) the Fiberglass body was broken and hanging off in various places one of the lights was torn out, break leavers broken. They even took a screwdriver to my helmet case in order to get at my expensive and protective bike helmet and gloves.

All in all it’s a write off. Even if we could locate the parts to repair this specific brand (which we can’t in New Zealand) it would cost thousands upon thousands to repair, better off just buying a new one or a second hand one, much cheaper.

So we spent the better part of the morning gathering up my insurance papers to find out what kind of coverage I have, have full so woo. And then we went to file a claim with the insurance agency. All pretty standard stuff, fill out some forms, answer some questions. Deliver the bike to a mechanic so they can go over it and report back on its condition to them. Though my policy does have a $500 excess on it in the case of theft so depending on how much the bike is deemed worth I probably won’t get much money out of it. But hopefully enough to pay for the deposit on a new bike, but we’ll see.

After we left the insurance agents we found a note from the thief stuck to the window of my dad’s car. It basically read ‘Ha look at what you found, hope it still works hahaha’ and that really got under my skin… This $%*# head was proud of what he did. He was laughing at me and mocking me for being able to steal and destroy my only mode of transport and get away with it >:( Of course that note was handed over to the police but who knows what they can do with it.

And so that’s where I am now. One totalled bike and not enough money for another one. My parents will be able to help me out with transport in the short term, but I really need to get mobile again on another bike ASAP. My best bet is probably getting a personal loan from my bank, their rates some reasonable and the online calculators that explain how much you’ll have to pay back each week all give reasonable numbers. My main worry is that my credit card debt will make me seem like a bad risk and they’ll refuse me the loan.

Still don’t know until you try so that’s what I’m going to be doing today. Wish me luck guys.

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