>>>A year or so ago, one of my daughter's friends spent the weekend with us and after she left, about 5 of my daughter's shirts and numerous jewelry items were missing, including some of mine. I went to the parent's house and suggested thatwhen she packed up, she accidentally grabbed some of Haley's and my stuff. Her mother found the items and returned them and laughed it off. Her daughter is known for stealing so it was not a surprise. I think her mother has given up.
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>>These bikes will suddenly appear in someone's yard. Someone close may ask these kids a few questions, or not. It may be as easy to return these bikes as it was to take them - now that we have even less reason to keep an eye on the back yard.
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>>Well, we'll see whether the bikes will be seen on the streets. As all our bikes always have, these had some distinctive marks.
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>>Never mind, I don't want to stay in bad mood for too long. We've just undergone an attitude change.
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>LOL. Well, that's good.
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>What distinctive marks? Serbian flags flying from the rear fenders? ;-)

No, rust solvent, which then oozed quite black down the vertical column of the front fork and few other places, then all the stickers which I took off (you wouldn't believe how many of them fit on a single bike frame), then the new seats and the side mirror. Ah, and almost forgot: I still have the key to the lock on one of them. Just didn't feel like locking the bikes while they are in the yard. That's breaking and entering.

Of course, in any serious operation, these parts would be shuffled around beyond recognition. But I guess these are just kids.