Editor:
A funny thing happened in Ladner today (May 6).
While I was trying to free my bike from a faulty lock while out riding and shopping at a local store, two police cars pulled up and I was about to be 'questioned.’
I knew right away it looked 'bad'...smile...I was tearing away at a chain with a bolt cutter (picked up at our local rental shop) on a bike secured to a public bike rack...and their were lots of witnesses and passerby 'firsthand accounts'...with cell phone evidence no doubt, so I unloaded my 'story' as soon as one of the officers approached.
It was convincing enough for him to make a quick call to dispatch to call off the 'back-up.’
I showed him the 'rental paperwork' for the bolt-cutter and my ID, all the pertinent data needed to fill out a police report and then the officer offered to get this chain off my bike and succeeded.
He's a member of our Delta community police offices and I'm throwing this 'positive light' out there to help balance recent 'bad press' over-shadowing our local police department.
Brian Britten
