Wasn't my doing, but I heard the fight and watched the aftermath. My next door neighbors are good people, with a 12 yr old son and two smaller daughters. The boy has a fuull suspension 20 inch mountain bike he is very careful to keep thoroughly chained up at the back of the apartments when he isn't on it. Unfortunately, the woman who lives directly below them is a crack head, and has a pretty steady flow of unsavory characters in and out. Seems one of them decided he was gonna steal and sell the boys bike one day about a week ago.
He didn't reckon on the neighbors - this complex has 8 apts in 2 (old) wooden buildings, and the other building has 9 younger folks living in those 4 apts. One of whom is in the police academy, the others being pretty nice kids, all of them. One of them saw the guy trying to cut the chain on the bike, got his roommate, and accosted the guy. Which started a fight - while they were fighting the guy in the police academy came home for lunch, and waded in.
The would be thief got trashed really badly, and then when the cops got there they searched him and found three "rocks" on him. So, now he is in the local jail charged with possession with intent to sell crack cocaine, attempted theft, and three counts of assault with intent to do gross bodily harm - he hit one of the guys with a hacksaw and cut his arm badly.
I hope he likes his time on the banks of the Mississippi in one of the toughest prisons in North Anerica.
All for a bike he might have gotten $20 for at a pawn shop.