How old is your daughter?

She should get a group of her friends together and they should go confront the kid and get the bike back.

Anonymous wrote:Also put name on bike next time I guess

Ha, sneak over there and write her name on it now, then ask for it back again.

Man here - I remember being in grade school and my basketball disappeared when we were at the playground. It had my name written on it in magic marker. I walked all around the school neighborhood until I ran into some kids playing basketball at someone’s house with a ball that looked like mine. I stood around and then asked if I could play and they said sure and when they passed the ball to me I could see that someone had tried to remove my name from the ball with some kind of solvent but my name was very apparent. I said “this is my ball, who stole it from me?” A kid came up to me and said it’s his ball which meant he was the one who stole it. I put the ball on the ground and then I hit him as hard as I could and then picked up the ball and ran as fast as I could. Truly one of my finest moments as a grade schooler.

Anonymous wrote:You call the police and explain the situation. Do you have a picture with your daughter on her bike?

Walk into their yard and take it back OP. No question. Enough with the knocking on the door BS.

Anonymous wrote:I feel this happened to me in the 80s, and I just walked up to the house and took my bike back...

Right? I would have brought my older sister with me. We'd get that bike back. No grown-ups involved.

I'd steal it back. What are they gonna do? Accuse you of stealing back a bike that doesn't belong to them?

Anonymous wrote:I feel this happened to me in the 80s, and I just walked up to the house and took my bike back...

Yup!

You call the police and explain the situation. Do you have a picture with your daughter on her bike?

Also put name on bike next time I guess

Do you have any photos of your daughter with the bike? I might go back over there and show the mom. I wouldn't take it as just a loss myself.

I feel this happened to me in the 80s, and I just walked up to the house and took my bike back...

It's super weird that the mother is lying for her child. It's not weird that a child stole another child's bike.

I guess this is a lesson to you/your daughter - always lock up/put away your bike. I'm surprised you don't know that, but it's reasonable for a child not to yet.

Sorry your daughter has lost a friend.

Yeah, it's just a loss. Sorry.

My daughter's bike disappeared from her friend's front yard a couple of weeks ago. Several neighborhood kids told me this other girl has it. I ride by the house and see what appears to be my daughter's bike. I knock on the door and ask the mother if it happens to be her bike. Everything about the bike matches my daughter's, down to the ripped seat. She says it's her daughter's.

I guess it could be her child's bike. I asked a few kids if they've ever seen her riding the bike, and they say no. She rides a bigger, different colored bike.

It seems too coincidental for my daughter's bike to be missing and an identical one is in their garage.

Is this just a loss? How would you handle this?