Petty Reports Bicycle Missing After Meeting

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Alderman Matthew Petty, who cut a lock and took someone else’s bike for his own use last year before returning it in the midst of a police investigation, reported his own bike stolen Tuesday night.

Petty emerged from a City Council meeting after 8 p.m. Tuesday to discover the bike he rode to the meeting and stashed in an alleyway had been taken.

The Ward 2 alderman told police he parked his bike between the City Administration Building at 113 W. Mountain St. and the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce about 6 p.m ...

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So there is some missing detail in this report. It says that last year Petty cut the lock for the trike, but Petty said he had found it abandoned. Which was true?

Posted by: FishFillet

March 18, 2010 at 10:55 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

@FishFillet I've attached some related articles. They should help you out.

Posted by: schleuss

March 18, 2010 at 11:22 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

All of this for a tricycle.......and 3 articles...WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Hindering

March 18, 2010 at 5:58 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

Wow, I read those articles, thanks for attaching them to here! That clears up my missing detail. If Petty's act wasn't prompted by a feeling of entitlement then I don't know what is.

Posted by: FishFillet

March 19, 2010 at 9:48 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

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