Police in California are searching for a pick-up truck driver who pushed a five-year-old boy off his bike and stole it. The youngster has alreasy been given a replacement thanks to an initiative by local police and churches.
Sacramento Police Department say the theft happened last Tuesday 17 March on the city’s Blockwood Avenue, reports Fox 40.
They say the man, described as 5’ 10” to 6’ tall with short black hair and aged in his mid-20s, pushed the child off the black and red Schwinn bike then put it in his pick-up truck and drove off.
The boy’s father tried to give chase in vain, but the boy now has a replacement bike through the Cops and Clergy programme.
Officer Tracy Trapini told Fix News that the man “pushed the child off the bicycle, grabbed the bike and threw it in the truck.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous that somebody, an adult, would get out of their vehicle to steal a bike from a child. This is just the top-of-the-line bully and we want to catch him,” she added.
The vehicle was a white Chevrolet S-10 extended cab pick-up truck similar to the one pictured and was spotted on the city’s network of traffic cameras.
It was not reported whether police had managed to identify the license plate number.
8 thoughts on “Pick-up truck driver shoves five-year-old boy off bike and steals it”
I can’t imagine what kind of
I can’t imagine what kind of scumbag you’d need to be to assault and then steal from a five-year-old child.
It’s beyond me.
Too bad I did see the bastard
Too bad I did see the bastard take the kid’s bike… I would have shot the SOB. Thank God I live in a country that allows me to carry. God Bless America!
Bryin wrote:Too bad I did see
Thank f*** we don’t, apprehending the bloke is one thing, we can certainly do without vigilante idiots acting as judge and executioner.
Bryin wrote:Too bad I did see
You can’t be serious, but since Septics are weird and you may mean it let’s have a look at the results of your insane gun laws.
Quite apart from the regular deliberate massacres in schools, up to a 100 children are killed accidentally by guns.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/us-accidental-gun-deaths-100-children-yearly
Children themselves also kill with guns accidentally.
“After a 9-year-old girl in Arizona accidentally shot and killed her shooting range instructor with an Uzi last week, it raised what would appear to be a fairly obvious question: How often do children in the United States — where unintentional or accidental shootings occur with some frequency — fatally shoot people by accident?”
“When children unintentionally shoot themselves or other people, media reports typically follow. A three-year-old boy is playing with a gun and shoots himself in the face. A four-year-old girl discovers a gun and shoots her four-year-old cousin, killing him. A three-year-old boy shoots himself in the head. A five-year-old accidentally shoots a three-year-old girl. A five-year-old boy accidentally shoots and kills himself. A four-year-old boy accidentally shoots himself. A two-year-old boy shoots and kills his 11-year-old sister. It goes on like this, story after story of unintentional shootings involving children that lead to injuries or deaths. (Many unintentional shootings of children occur when they are with people of similar ages, Vernick said, though many also involve children by themselves.)”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/04/how-often-do-children-in-the-u-s-unintentionally-shoot-and-kill-people-we-dont-know/
You must be really proud to live in such a country.
UUUUuuuu GUNS SO
UUUUuuuu GUNS SO SCAAAARYYYYYY
Bryin wrote:Too bad I did see
Yeah if that 5 year old had a gun this would never have happened.
LarryDavidJr wrote:Bryin
Yeah, but he would of shot his mum while at the shops…..
Was the child on the pavement
Was the child on the pavement (er, ‘sidewalk’)? Maybe its that cop from Grantham?
(Whoever it is is an arse, obviously. Though is this thread now about gun-control?)