B93.7 Online » bikes http://blogs.b937online.com Just another www.radio-blogs.net weblog Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:21:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 I am the neighborhood grump! http://blogs.b937online.com/tsteele93/2009/05/28/i-am-the-neighborhood-grump/ http://blogs.b937online.com/tsteele93/2009/05/28/i-am-the-neighborhood-grump/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 18:43:58 -0400 Tom Steele http://tom-wfbc.itmblog.com/2009/05/28/i-am-the-neighborhood-grump/ If you’ve been following the show, you know that I recently did something that almost everyone has dreamed of doing at some point or another.  I stood up to the neighborhood kids who were leaving all their stuff in my yard all the time.  After mowing around a bicycle that had been in my yard all weekend over the Memorial Day holiday, I took the bike and put it up for sale on Ebay.

Wanna bike for your kid?

The bidding was up to $31 when a woman called into the show and said that was her 6 year-old son’s bike and she wanted it back.  I told her that if she had a receipt for the bike I would happily return it, but otherwise I was claiming it as abandoned property and selling it on Ebay.  She wasn’t happy with me.  So she apparently notified Ebay that the bike was “stolen” and they took my auction down.

Click here to see the whole e-mail!

Well, now the harrassment has started.  I came home from eating lunch at Applebees today and this is what I found…

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If this keeps up I think that I may be able to retire soon.  Anyone want a scooter, bike or skateboard?

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