Catching a Bike Thief with AirTags
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- Опубликовано: 12 фев 2022
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After a thief stole my bike, I was able to track him down and share his location with the police. All possible thanks to the AirTag underneath my seat. There's been a lot of bad press about AirTags lately, but I think this video demonstrates how AirTags can also do good for the community!
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Loved to hear the German Police act so efficently - their conversation afterwards was stern yet respectful. He was told what he did wrong, like a father pointing out mistakes to his child. The man stole your bike, he should be punished by helping himself solve his life's problems causing him to make that wrong decision in the first place.
German police is extremely serious even for these little things, it's impressive
They get physical very quick. That's very dump
Like you scream once Police and then tackle the guy and break his bones, wth? You have a car and he's on a bike, you're gonna catch him either way. He just didn't notice that he was spoken to. I live in Germany and this is not a single case. They are very physical and therefore not professional at all
@@danny_racho Achso, nicht gesehen dass du deutsch bist, ich finde jetzt dein Kommentar deshalb mehr als fragwürdig lol.
@@sensending7190 Wieso soll das fragwürdig sein? Ich habe es selber erlebt und mir eine eigene Meinung gebildet. Die Typen werden immer ganz schnell handgreiflich...
@@danny_racho Aber du merkst schon, dass du hier sehr verallgemeinerst, wenn du von der ganzen deutschen Polizei als eine Instanz sprichst? Immerhin gibt es mal mindestens 17 verschiedene Polizeibehörden, mit denen man als normaler Bürger in Deutschland auf der Straße in Kontakt kommen kann... und eigentlich sogar noch mehr. Ich denke schon, dass wir ein Problem mit schlecht ausgebildeten oder emotional ungeeigneten Polizisten haben - denn jeder Einzelfall ist einer zu viel, wenn es um die Arbeit einer staatlichen Institution geht. Ich glaube aber nicht, dass wir da ein systematisches Problem haben, denn alle Polizisten haben entweder eine jahrelange Ausbildung oder ein noch längeres Studium genossen, und eigentlich wird ihnen da beigebracht, dass Gewalt nicht das Mittel der Wahl sein darf... vermutlich gibt es da auch Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Polizeibehörden der Bundesländer was Ausbildungszeiten etc. angeht, was vielleicht einige Probleme erklären kann.
"2 weeks for the bike to get stolen"
As a South African if I turned my back, the bike would be nowhere in sight.
😂
sometimes you only need to blink
@@eeeeeek sometimes you don't even need to
Agreed, maybe someone should do this experiment in South Africa?
@@mossie125 That would be brilliant
Watching this video as a german, living only 50 kilometers away, gives me a nice feeling about the police and their overall handling of this situation. And very nice video!
Ich wohne nur 5 km entfernt :D
4km bis zur Trinkhalle
Wohne auch in der Ecke :D
Golzheim lebt haha
Sadly, living thousands of miles away in Toronto, I have the opposite feeling about our police. I'm going through this right now. I know the building where my E-Bike is and all they offer is 'we'll take a report so there's a record of it' and adamantly telling me to just consider it gone.
Honestly, my takeaway here. Not getting your bicycle stolen while having it unlocked for 100 days. Faith in humanity, somewhat, restored (despite recent events).
This is Germany. Try it in the US.
@@trucid2 that would be such a hassle, you try it!
@@trucid2 They don't really use bicycles in the US. But then again, someone would probably steal it anyway, just because...
Great story! Thanks for sharing!! Cool, real-world use of AirTags.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
MegaLag (9:15): "You can get a small fine... and I'm fine with that"
Me: _Budum Chhhh_
Air tags can help stalkers track you it basically takes an iPhone to find air tags
Thus finding you
@@lizzie12346 I mean sure but for pretty much the same price plus a 2g sim card you have trackers that do not even need iPhones to track. Trackers have been affordable for ages.
Incredible! I was so immersed in the video i didn't even realise 8 minutes had passed until the sponsorship, very well done and congratz on the chase!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
I love that you said the footage you shot was not actually from that evening. I feel so many creators would just pretend it was
Honesty is important! :D
What a story! At the beginning I was surprised no one took the unlocked bike for weeks! But when I think about the statistic, that hundreds of bike are stolen in Düsseldorf each day, I guess the better explanation would be that real professional/semi-professional bike thefts would consider that bike not steal-worthy, and even a bait to lure them to bite. So I think that's why it can survive so long.
I think that, in the Netherlands, the average bike gets stolen twice a year.
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amazing video please never quit :)
Amazing video!
You should rename your channel to AirTagStories
@@firsfnamelastname8490 he would then have to feature detailed stories from other users.
show us, don't tell us
Yet again a terrific video, I love your story telling skills! If only America took stealing as serious as other countries!
Unfortunately, in the US stealing is looked upon as being smart. Would not be surprised if it stemmed from the fact they stole the land of the natives just a couple of centuries ago (just a few decades ago in case of Hawaii).
@@prhasn Do you live in america? We don't think stealing is smart, we just have shitty police
@@prhasn I love how you just generalize 330 million people as "they", and consider everyone in the country (even if they weren't even born here) to be "they".
It didn't use to be this way
@@prhasn Not stolen, conquered.
Man what an hilarious story. I wish I had bought an AirTag sooner. I might have found my 4800€ bike. It got stolen out of an underground car park. My new bike will get an AirTag for sure. Thanks for sharing your story
Hi Michael, Ouch! Sorry to hear about your bike… Glad you enjoyed the video, definitely grab yourself an AirTag for you next one. Galaxy SmartTags also work really well depending on where you live :)
@@MegaLag It also depends which phone you have. SmartTags only work with Samsung phones, AirTags only with iPhones. If you have something else get a Tile.
@@Ozymandias1 most people nowaedays seem to have iPhones. I would go with airtags
@@108mtsan 😅 Oh, dear jod, what? No, they really don't. Android accounts for more than 70% of phone users. And even in the US, the market share is only 60-40, so even in that context, that's still some terrifically bad advice.
You need to get insurance for a bike THAT expensive
Try this in the UK and the police would probably arrest you for harassing the tries, if they even answered the call that is!
Man that's an incredible series of events!
I also had a shitty bike stolen in Germany back in 2015 but it was such a crappy bike, the thief brought it back to the same parking spot a few days after he cut my lock. I had no idea I could have reported it to the Polizei :D
Haha what thoughtful thief! Glad you got your bike back in the end
What do you think the police is for if they don't even handle thieves?
@@user-bl4oq7fd8d he maybe though that reporting for a old shitty bike would be a stupid idea. ( maybe )
I had a bike stolen a lot of years ago. I bought it at a yard sale for $10 and rode it for a month or so until I left it in front of my van and drove over it. I left it sitting nearby and somebody came along and stole it. LOL
@@LaughingTerry They probably thought someone threw the bike away, since you just said you drove over it and just left it there.
That's a pretty exciting story to get out of a cheap bicycle, good value for money.
In The Netherlands you can get a €20 'provocation of theft' fine for leaving your bike unlocked. (I must say I have only seen one case of it actually being enforced in my entire life)
Dat is niet waar @0
I also recently learned that it is mandatory, by law, to lock one’s bike in Denmark. I saw this widely ignored, though.
@@BuildHousing
Really? TIL.
"The bike was asking for it"
The same in Germany. But I have only ever seen it enforced with abandoned cars with a "Free car" sticker.
Great Stuff! Love to see how reliable German police is even though I am not German and don’t live in Germany. Where I live we have good police but I wish the police were that good everywhere! I’m glad you got your bike back!
Thanks Alex!
I wish I had airlock on my old phone......it got stolen by a female in Hong Kong
I mean airtack
Absolutely incredible story and so well told! Love these videos, man! ⭐️
Thanks Adam!
So the saying goes, "With friends like these, who needs enemies?"
But yeah, kudos on you for telling this story. Stories of thieves getting caught should be told far and wide so that thieves will think twice about stealing, lest they too be caught.
Please keep this airtag thief recovery content coming, I loved the vid!
Love the videos! I think you're the only one I've seen so far who's actually testing these in fun and creative way. Great job!
It might be fun and interesting to see some of these tests with the Samsung smartTags (smartThings find) to determine how they perform vs the airtags. My guess would be that the accuracy would vary between different parts of the world. Who knows..
Anyways, its just an idea. Hope you don't mind me suggesting. Keep up the good work!
Hi Remco, thanks for the kind words! I did a test last year with the AirTags, Galaxy Tag, Tile and Chipolo - sent all three from Germany to New Zealand. I just haven't gotten around to making the video yet :D
It was an interesting test, and as you suspected they each perform differently depending on the country they are in. But I can say, Galaxy Tags works pretty well too!
I always wanted to see such a video!! Hats Off to you!!
Keep catching those theives and uploading great content!
your channel is so good im honestly disappointed that so many channels like yours are this underrated
Thanks James! Glad you’re enjoying the content :)
I always get so excited to see when he has posted, it fills me with joy!
I love this video, glad to see a video that doesn’t go on for hours that isn’t click bait and cuts out all the bullshit keep up the good work. Gizzmo
Great video, you definitely should upload more frequently!!
I don't know how it's with our German neighbours but if you leave in BEL your car (so not bike AFAIK) unlocked on purpose, you can get fined - even as the owner - for being neglecting your property!
Same here in Germany! Don't leave your car unlocked. Also don't leave windows or the rooftop open. It says in the StVO: "Kraftfahrzeuge sind beim Verlassen gegen unbefugte Nutzung zu sichern".
Sounds like Germany. It's not the criminals fault for stealing, it's your fault for leaving your window open or your bike unlocked. What a bunch of bums.
@@littlejackalo5326 obviously the criminal would also get his punishment. It’s not like leaving your car open would protect him. It would just make you an enabler.
Glad that you are back! Nice storytelling as always.
Thanks brother!
@@MegaLag soon I’ll think u got a programmed bot to answer every comment of me with thanks brother 😜😅😂 but honestly always makes me happy getting the notification of your reply. Thanks brother! 😘
6:43 LOL! "I hope that's my bike" Pure gold.
Great story! It was interesting to listen 👍🏼👍🏼
Finally, I‘ve waited this kind of video. I lived in germany and I have my Airtag on my bike. My bike never got stolen but I wonder what should I do if my bike got stolen and wonder if the police would help me to chase the thief just with the help of an Airtag. Now I know what should I do if my bike got stolen. Thanks man!
I love your style of videos! Amazing as always :)
Awesome editing, I really like your storytelling. Looking forward to more content!
I was reluctant to subscribe to another channel... But honestly, I find that the quality of content here is just si good that it's simply incredibly worth it.
Well done mate, great content, keep it up.
Great story and presentation as usual. Sad to say, I don't think the Police response would be anything like that back here in NZ
Thanks Allan! Yeah I would agree! The majority of things stolen from me, was while I was living in NZ 😅
@@MegaLag oohhhh that explains the accent! I thought it was familiar
@@MegaLag NZ?
Just tell the police that the bad guy have misgender you or used the wrong pronoun, I am sure there will be 7 police cars and he get 6 years.
@@thymark found the snowflake
Hey MegaLag, by saying this, I think I'm talking for us all. We love your content. It's very entertaining, and informative and has overall excellent quality. So I'm gonna get straight to the point and ask you to please upload more. If that means decreasing production quality then please forget you ever read this comment immediately, but otherwise I think we'd all dearly appreciate it. Sincerely, a very cool subscriber
i didnt knew you were german until the you said "straße".... your english is so good bro oh and nice video
I'm from New Zealand ;) I'm just used to saying "straße" haha
Wow what an amazing story ! Definitely will be sharing with friends. Congratulations on serving your justice and at the same time underscoring the usefulness of the airtag !
To the point video. No shitting around. Love it!
Yeah but leaving a bike out for weeks and weeks someone might just assume it’s lost or just left on purpose, so it’s not really the same as oh i put it here and they were trying hard to take it it’s more of i left a shoe on the playground and it’s not there anymore cause some kid randomly took it home. Of course parking it outside some place is a different story
Imagine the guy coming back with his friends and breaking into his house as you uploaded this video and now they know everything about you. Sounds like a movie story. :D
So MegaLag rather tracked criminals than criminals would track him. Amazing!
Germany sounds so amazing! Can’t wait to travel there next year
No doubt you'll have a great time!
Love catching these thieves ! Nice work !
"Okay... You made a big mistake"
Man, you really did us dirty there, I thought you had the wrong guy for a second
Awesome Video! After watching your first video about Airtags saving your bike I put one on my bike aswell. Then, yesterday I had my bike stolen at University. Thanks to the Airtag and the CCTV in the thieves' apartment building german police was able to locate the the bike and retrieve it from the thieves´ apartment this morning. So, thank you for sharing this great idea!
Everyone drop everything, MegaLag uploaded
This was a great story. Had me smiling all along.
Awesome video, as always - love your work 🥰 From an Aussie in Indonesia
The best story teller I have ever watched !
Danke, dass du unsere Straßen etwas sicherer gemacht hast! 👍🏻
You got someone to sponsor this thief chase? I died 🤣
Well done… Keep up the quality content! I always enjoy watching your videos.🤝
Thanks eyeslow!
amazing video, have been watching since your first airtag video
What an awesome story! You have the best channel on youtube! Kudos to the police and the operator also!
Quality video, great to see justice being served.
Where did you see it served? I don’t get it.
@@DarthEyesDragon when the thief got caught?
They were set up.
This is actually quality content i wanted to rewatch it
Moin, Great Content as usual. Know you since
Great Video, fantastic story telling! What happened to your Vanmoof S3?
"He won't be stealing bikes anytime soon". Yes, yes he will.
No, he won't.
Lets be real, he probably wasnt a big bike thief or anything, probably just a guy with little moral who saw an unlocked bike and chose to take it.
I dont think he would do it again after this.
Great story. And I am glad the guy got a hopefully healingful scare and the option to do better next time.
You should be a sponsor for Apple Air Tags dude. Really best advertising ever with your videos.
These street names are hilarious. You saying "I hope that's my bike" after the cop hit him made me laugh.
Wow, glad it worked out! The justice system in the US vs the rest of the world is just a day and night difference!!
It is very interesting for me to know many ways to use the Airtag.
This is so great. Do more 'to catch a thief'!
Airtags are pretty amazing. I have a ton of them in my keys cars, backpack, motorcycle etc.
The real thief in this story is the old man who sold you that lump of rust with two wheels for 50 Euros!
what if.... one of the "friends" in the kiosk was like "oh yeah, i have this bike. you can have it" and you caught a confused bloke.
But the look on the thief's face as you "stole" your own bicycle back from him would've been priceless.
They actually make a little AirTag holder that gets screwed between the frame and a bottle holder. Very sneaky, but also pretty easy to access if you need to replace the battery.
Do you have a name or link? I’m getting a bike next month and that would be perfect
Love to see a great video with a side of justice!
:D
Subscribed
love the way you tell your little Adventures 😀
As a Düsseldorfer I am very interested in your videos. It is very funny to watch your topics and my home town locations.
This is such a quaint example of crime. If this was the US, the operator would say DO NOT follow them because they may be dangerous. We have giant bike stealing rings that are connected to other crimes too!
epecially e-bikes
there's no way to tell if this story is actually real. It seems pretty fishy to me for several reasons.
yeah germans usually arent armed
Wow, the police actually took action for you. I have had many thousands of dollars worth of bikes stolen from me and the police did nothing about it.
Well he had the thief right in sight. The police can't just magically find the thief if you don't where he is
it could just be a fake story for the sponsor/ad money :-(
@@Victor-tl4dk True, you never know what to believe online. I doubt they would go through the effort to stage it, but definitely a possibility.
It’s very cool to see such a successful and interesting story, which took place in your own hometown
I see some very German moves here (eg calling the police), living in Germany you have adapted to the culture perfectly :)
Great Video!
Here in America it only took me 4 hours for my bike to get stolen, hearing it took 2 weeks makes me jealous
9:18 "A small fine ... I'm fine with that" Was I the only one who noticed the pun
You have earned my sub. High quality video man.
Cheers man! Glad you enjoyed the content
As an American the most shocking part of this is that police actually showed up to help. If you call the cops in the US and tell then someone stole your bike you can basically assume they're never showing up, regardless of how much evidence you have.
In fact in the US the operator would probably say police are on the way and then they'd be a no-show.
He's going to try to steal another bike as soon as he's done with your case. Once a thief, always a thief. Also if he's not gonna get harsh punishment he's gonna take that for granted that he's safe and sound to steal.
Yeah he's just gonna check more
Unbelievable history!!! Great video
Love these AirTag Stories
5:48 calling the Police while doing a crime, you got the point
how is that a crime
Just in case you're not feeling paranoid enough, have you considered that the thief coming up to you asking for a cigarette might not have been a coincidence? It's very possible he was outside the store when you pulled up on your bike and saw you get off & go in without locking it, then ran up took it right there. Then, later that night when he was out drinking with his mates he might have seen you on the far corner and wondered if you were the guy he saw get off the bike he stole, and if you might be stalking him somehow. So he goes up to you for a closer look, to see how you react or something, but apparently decides you're not the same guy for some reason (like a combination of you keeping cool & not getting freaked out, him being drunk and I'm also going to speculate perhaps not the brightest guy to begin with).
nah he probably just wantet a cig
I got my (not so cheap) bike stolen in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere once, almost 20 years ago. With all the new technologies that came over the years, I have actually been thinking of this kind of setup sometimes. I can't tell you how liberating it feels watching this!
Man this meme was on point and the bowling pin ... just awesome
Thiefs are just ashholes...
Thanks for sharing your story! Hope more thiefs get a lesson.
I just dont know why people steel things from others...
Imagine how fantastic the world would be if we have not to lock our things anywhere. :)
I live in a small village in germany, and here its not a problem to not lock anything.
My bike just stands the whole year without locking infront of my door. ^^
But I still got my bike stolen 3 times. All 3 times was in the next big City and all 3 times I locked my bike....
As annoying and sometimes even upsetting as having something stolen can be, you may take solace in the fact that with the sort of flippant attitude with being a thief, it's only a matter of time before they get caught. Between the risk of making a mistake, or just getting too cocky it's only a matter of time for these people. And the reasons why they steal usually stem from having a pretty miserable life.
There was this guy in high school who stole my gameboy color and all of my games for it. Because that woulda been worth TONS in 1999. And I still resent the act to this day, for many more reasons than just the monetary value. But either way, I decided to look him up a few years ago and found out he got addicted to fentanyl and was arrested on some drugs charges that made the papers. I guess when the cops were chasing him, he ran up a tree, then snorted all of his fentanyl and fell out, then the cops arrested him while he was on the ground.
So you've just gotta trust that karma, luck, justice, God, or whatever you wanna call it will come full circle and these people will eventually get a fate much worse than anything you could ever do to them. Whether you take solace in that or not though, that's probably going to be different for everyone. I personally don't take pleasure in somebody suffering THAT bad. I just hope he was able to get better in jail and turn his life around. I think that would give me more pleasure than anything.
Fun fact: The CGB plus games are way more worth today.
Got my GameCube plus tons of games stolen back in the day. Currently trying to rebuild that collection. Hell, that's expensive.
What an exciting adventure. Glad everything went okay, def hope no one tries this themselves tho
Wow your channel has grown. Ive been watching sonce your forst video when you had 100 subs.
I caught a bicycle thief just 20 minutes after I installed my security camera last year. He got 5 days of public service in the end for stealing (he was already 20 meters away from where the bicycle was parked) where I stopped him. This is in The Netherlands btw.
Amazing i dont regret being subscribed ^^
amazing story telling, with tech. you earned a subscriber.
Thanks mate!
This whole situation could literally be a serious comedy movie
Anytime soon? Bruh he probably stole three more the next day. They aren’t gonna keep him locked up over a bike, and it ain’t grand theft either. lol cool video though I enjoyed it
Damn, do you forget your google account password every month?
Why do you keep me waiting for this loong time?
I know, sorry! Will try improve this 😅
So cool if you know that area by heart as a person from Düsseldorf. Nicely done!
this guy is the king of airtags
Hey! You have to be informed that we do have a felony in Germany called "Anstiftung" (§ 26 StGB).
It means, even if you only try to incite someone to commit a felony, you are committing a felony yourself!
So please keep that in mind and always keep contact to a lawyer before you try to film such "experiments"!
Hi there, thanks for the heads up! But as I mentioned in the video, this was not done intentionally. And I don’t believe it’s illegal to leave your bike unlocked :)
@@MegaLag that's correct I just wanted to inform you for videos in the future
“ the law is a ass”- Charles Dickens, 200 years ago. Little has changed.
@@MegaLagdoch ist strafbar und sowas wird eigentlich nicht verfolgt. Eigentlich ein Unding esse du abziehst.
Blödsinn. Für Anstiftung benötigt es einen Vorsatz des Anstifters und des Täters. Bei einem nicht abgeschlossenen Drahtesel wird man wohl eher Gelegenheitsdiebe anziehen und keine Profidiebe mit Diebstahlsvorsatz, die es auf höherwertige Fahrräder abgesehen haben. Insofern liegt keine Anstiftung vor und es ist nicht strafbar.