How an angry ad helped retrieve a stolen bike

“I hope you get incurable boils in your crotch.” This is the wish Seattle resident Shannon Loys addressed to the thief who stole her husband's bike, who is battling cancer.

Photo: SHANNON LOYS

Loyce wrote an advert addressing "smelly trash who steals bicycles" in the hope that it will help recover the lost items. Thanks to the help of a homeless man named Kevin, Shannon and her husband Andrew returned the bike, which was specially adapted to his needs.

It looks like the ad's tirade—and the thought of boils—has done the trick. Kevin told Shannon that the thief at some point got scared and threw the bike, and it ended up with a homeless man.

Fully ad text looked like this:

Dear smelly garbage stealing bikes. The bike you stole belongs to my dear husband, win three timesto the head crayfish. He was specially adapted to his needs. I hope you will have incurable boils in the crotch.

“It was a cry into the void. I was upset. It came from the heart,” Lois said. Air force.

Photo: SHANNON LOYS

Returning the bike was not so easy - first we had to find Kevin.

After seeing the angry ad, he asked a passerby to call the phone number and explain that he had the bike and wanted to return it to Shannon's husband because he had "had a hard time."

On the phone, Loyce heard only that Kevin was waiting for her at a store in the suburbs of Seattle, and with him was a cart and his own bicycle. No more precise instructions were given.

The conversation took place at 11 in the evening, Lois could no longer fall asleep and went in search of Kevin.

“It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack, but I still decided to try. I didn’t have any other leads,” she says. After making several circles around the neighborhood, she came across a homeless parking lot and asked them if they knew “the man with the cart and the bicycle.”

Some time later - after she refused offers to buy drugs and assured that she was not from the police - Kevin appeared "with a big smile on his face."

Bike needs some repairs. Photo: SHANNON LOYS

Returning home, Shannon turned on the light and woke her husband to show him the bicycle.

“Fate was cruel to my husband, so this return was even more important to him than the bicycle itself,” she says. The couple soon met up with Kevin, thanking him with a hundred dollars, hot coffee, food and a thank-you card.

The couple brought food to the homeless camp. Photo: SHANNON LOYS

“He was really very nice, just as I thought the first time. He was very worried that he would be considered the thief,” says Loyce.

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