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$title = "august 19, 1999";
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I'm very upset. My bike is gone. It was locked to itself in a little
enclosure behind my apartment, minding its own business, scratched and all.
And some dweeb who didn't have the wit to figure out a better way to make
$20 decided to nab it to buy a CD or a cheap watch.
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I know I shouldn't let these things get to me, but they make me angry
and frustrate me at humanity's condition. Any sense of "trust" I had
developed at living in downtown Palo Alto has been shattered. I felt like
buying a nice bike and then hiding to snipe would-be takers with a BB
gun; or maybe a paintgun -- then they'd think they had been hit for real,
would freak out, and it'd be hard to conceal the fact that they did it.
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I'm case number 99231057, but it's unlikely I'll ever get my bike back.
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