“No more pranksters on these discussion boards please. . just be yourself.

Simon, I hope you are telling the truth . . if so, all the best to you.

As for this young lad, it's a shame people did this you him, I wish him all the best and tell the thieves Karma will come get you.”

“Simon
Today, people have been posting comments using other people's names. I really hope that this is somehow a prank and you are not truly telling us about your wife's death.
Yesterday she said how she walked into Cabot Circus to have a look around? Was that untrue or was she able?
If this is somehow a truth, I must offer my condolences to you and your family.
It would be hypocritical of me to say anything further.
Best wishes
Emma”

“To all the readers who regularly comment on here - my name is Simon, I am (according to some people) the long suffering husband of Anne who regularly writes on these pages. I know Anne said a few days ago that she was on holiday from work but unfortunately she was not on holiday. She was and has been suffering with breast cancer for the past year. Up until yesterday afternoon she was not too bad but last night took a turn for the worst and is now sadly no longer with us. She would sit in bed with her laptop commenting on these stories which helped to pass the time and usually I spent my days with her, just watching. To the guy who said the other day I deserved a medal for being with Anne for 24 years you are wrong. It is her who deserves the medal for going through what she has gone through for the last year. So, if any more comments come on here from Anne, they are from someone else and not my wife.”

“Morning Emma and Everyone else, I think as long as you have insurance you are pretty much doing all you can!

Sounds like if the thieves were going to break into a secure garage, then cut a steel cable before removing all the bikes there wasn't much more the bloke could have done.”

“Morning Paul
My partner invested in CCTV for our garage as he stores his jet ski, motor bike etc in there.
And would you believe, the neighbours complained about it? Tried having them removed.
So who knows what the solution is.”

“Short of employing a 24 hour security guard I'm not sure what else this boy could have reasonably done. 'Maybe' and this is a view with a LOT of hind sight....security cameras would have been a good investment.

I just hope he had insurance and so can make a quick claim and get the equipment back.”

“Good morning Anne
I'm in a good mood today, it's Friday, so no arguments please.
With regards to you saying the bike should have been chained or d locked to the garage.... if you re-read the article you will find that it was chained to the wall. And if you again look at the picture beside the article, you will see the young lad holding the cut chain.
So other than clamping the bike to the floor using some sort of unbreakable steel, the family took every precaution to secure the bike so no further common sense is needed.
And there's no need for you to despair.
Have a great day !!! xxxx”

“Josh, how could you ? You've only gone and made Anne despair. Tch.”

“I actually feel for this lad my husbands bike got stolen last year and it was very quickly stripped and sold in parts he's not been able to recover them but has seen some of them since and has recently built up a new one it wasn't the most expensive bike in the world but ment alot to him.
I think he now has a spare bike in the house somewhere that needs a few parts so i'll ask him later and see if we can help getting another one for you however I make no promises and can only ask if it's still lurking around for you”

“Much as I feel extremely sorry for this young man losing goods of this value, at least there was no personal injury involved, and the bikes can all be replaced courtesy of the Insurance. What is blindingly obvious here is that "education" has been lacking. Surely items to that value would have been chained or D-locked AND alarmed even though they were "inside" that garage, by anyone with a little common-sense. It reminds me of a simialr theft of three mountain bikes inside a Flat in Clifton reported by the BEP last week. Where have people's common-sense gone in not locking stuff up? I despair sometimes.”