this is us, circa sept 2006. i had just graduated college. we had both just moved here and met each other. and jarred had just bought the bike of his dreams (which he just added shocks to for his birthday last Feb). and then yesterday, 5 years later, it was stolen. it is pretty much a miracle that it made it 5 years without being stolen, since petty crime is par for the course here. but this year has been ridiculous. between our friends out here, in the past 2 months we have had 2 bikes and 1 scooter stolen. the key has always been to have a good lock from america, which we both do (did) and some thief a few years ago had already tried to burn through the lock without success, so we are pretty sure that this thief couldn't cut the lock, but just picked his bike up and put it in a car or something. that or he carried it all the way through campus and no one stopped him. so all in all, jarred is really sad, but it is just part of life and we are glad he got 5 long years out of that bike.
