A friend of mine bought a shiny brand new road bike, and preferred to go pick it up on his beat up commuter bike. About 4 blocks from the bike shop, in Georgetown, he gets stopped by MPD, who are absolutely convinced that he stole the shiny new road bike. Despite being 4 blocks from the bike shop, it took over an hour of convincing (while being detained) to get the cops to simply walk over there and ask the shop if the story checked out. They walked into the shop with friend’s picture on someone’s phone, asking if the shop people knew him. My husband happened to be in the shop at the time, and hilarity ensued.
At least it’s funny in hindsight. It sucked pretty hard at the time. At least for the friend. The guys in the bike shop seemed to have a good time with it.
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