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BICYCLE RACKET Marine Park parents claim that thieves are targeting kids with trick bikes
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BY CHANDLER KIDD
Marine Park parents claim
their kids are being targeted
by older teens intent on stealing
expensive trick bikes, saying
that as many as fi ve of the
high-priced stunt cycles have
been nabbed since Memorial
Day.
“They keep getting stolen,
because they’re expensive
and you can do tricks on
them,” said Sarah, a Marine
Park mom whose 12-year-old
son lost his custom trick bike
to thieves.
Sarah, who asked that her
last name not be used, claims
her son was at the Marine
Park basketball courts near
Fillmore Avenue on May 27,
when a teenager approached
the boy asking to perform
some tricks on his FeCycles
trick bike, only to then pedal
away the moment he was
seated.
Sarah’s husband claimed
that a friend of his spotted
the stolen bike tied at distant
Paerdegat Park on June 6,
but that when he went to retrieve
it, he was surrounded
by knife-wielding teens and
decided to back off.
“Seven kids rushed to me,
threatening me as I continued
to retrieve my son’s bike.
I didn’t engage with them,
but they were trying to attack
me,” said the dad, who
asked his name not be used.
“I backed away when one of
them showed me a knife. I
want something to be done
because I’m afraid they will
graduate to something worse
than stealing bikes.”
Another Marine Park mom,
who spoke on condition of anonymity,
claims that her son
was in the park near Fillmore
Avenue on June 13, when two
kids approached him while he
was playing basketball, asking
“hey can you teach us how
to do wheelies,” before nabbing
his custom So Cal Flyer,
a trick bike manufactured
by SE Bicycles, which retails
for between $500 and $700.
Police recorded two additional
heists targeting middle
school-aged kids and their
bikes within the 63rd Precinct,
which includes Marine
Park, Mill Basin, and Flatlands.
The fi rst occurred on Flat-
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