He Reported His Teen Cousin To The Police For Stealing His Bike Worth Thousands Of Dollars Because His Uncle Won’t Fully Reimburse Him For The Theft
From time to time, we complain about our family members stealing things of ours. For instance, has your sister ever stolen one of your tops, or perhaps your uncle has stolen food from your plate at a family barbecue?
Usually, we can get over these kinds of incidents. But what do you do when your relatives steal something very valuable?
One man recently decided to report his teenage cousin to the police after he stole his nice bike from him.
He’s 31 and lives in Australia. He invested in an expensive road bike that cost him thousands of dollars a while back. Although he has a car, biking is his favorite way of getting around, and he loves it.
Then, a little over a week ago, he discovered his bike had been stolen.
“Fortunately, my place’s security cameras caught the thief,” he said.
“Unfortunately, the thief was my idiot cousin Brad. But get this: by the time I realized the bike was gone, reported the theft to Brad’s parents, and his parents confronted him, the bike was somehow stolen off Brad.”
Brad is only 15 years old and lives about 10 minutes away from him. He believes it’s highly unlikely that the bike had been stolen from Brad within such a brief window of time. Instead, he thinks Brad sold the expensive bike and is lying to everyone.
Brad’s parents, his aunt and uncle, are very wealthy, as his uncle is the CFO of a large company in Australia. Therefore, he believed everything could be resolved if Brad’s parents reimbursed him for the bike so he could buy a replacement.
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However, Brad’s parents quickly hit him with excuses as to why they couldn’t buy him a new one.
“Apparently, Brad’s family has been having financial issues lately,” he explained.
“My uncle was [let go] in 2023 and has since developed crippling alcohol and gambling addictions. They’re heavily in debt and are burning through their savings and assets just to keep their mortgage. Brad’s mom believes the theft was Brad’s way of acting out [as he] had to adjust to his new lifestyle.”
However, he didn’t think these reasons excused Brad’s behavior. His aunt and uncle spent years making his other relatives, especially his parents, feel lousy for working jobs that didn’t pay as well and for not living as lavishly as they did. They were always entitled and never apologized for it. So now, he has zero sympathy for his uncle.
He decided to give his uncle an ultimatum. Either he gets fully reimbursed for his bike or files an insurance claim for it.
Part of filing an insurance claim included handing over the evidence he had of Brad stealing the bike to the police, which would result in major consequences.
He gave his uncle a specific date and time to pay him back by, but he never did. So, he decided to file a report the next morning.
Should he not have reported his cousin, or was it the right thing to do?
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