Today, with the help of two anonymous informants, we were able to secure the identity and residence of GB, and he is unequivocally NOT the landlord. His name is Jerry, and the police are coming his way. Lay low, Jerry. Lay low.
Unfortunately, these informants were GB sympathizers, as they described him as “a nice guy” who “wouldn’t do that.” They also informed us that there’s apparently a Champaign municipal code that disallows parking bike next to the sidewalk, but this seems ludicrous to me, and a search of the online municipal code database turns nothing up. Not to mention, the police officer never mentioned that our bike was violating code. I put the decoy inside anyway.
Yeah, because nice guys gum up people’s bikes until they are ruined. Justice will be served… and it will be sweet.
Dying for a resolution to this. Is he busted yet?
Yeah, what’s going on?!? When gumbandit blog updates grind to a halt, my life grinds to a halt. And I almost cut off my fingers in the paper trimmer today!
We have left a message for the officer on the case asking her for an update. We gave her the guy’s information right before A. moved out of the building, so we haven’t had first-hand access to the goings on, and she never contacted us with a follow-up. We’ll post an official update as soon as we hear from her!