Facebook sequel: Stolen scooter found old-fashioned way
August 4, 2011 by admin
Filed under Choosing Lingerie
Memo to aspiring scooter thieves: Stop stealing from Robin Maynard.
The effort is futile.
The Orlando woman who tracked down her $3,300 olive-green stolen scooter in March with tips from Facebook friends, remarkably, has done it again.
The first time was a made-for-the-movies ending. So here comes the edgy sequel.
Once a crime scene investigator for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Maynard now heads up Libby’s Legacy Breast Cancer Foundation, which raises money to provide health services for uninsured women in Central Florida and uses scooters in an annual fundraising ride.
Last week, she became the unlikely victim of scooter larceny for the second time in four months. The same two-wheeler was taken from the yard outside her Orlando home.
Remembering her original success, Maynard rounded up her Facebook posse for another adventure. A number of posts from friends claimed to have seen the scooter in and around east Orlando, but no one could be certain.
In the end, the tip came the old-fashioned way. A reader of an Orlando Sentinel article on the second theft Thursday noticed the scooter on her curb while she was taking out the trash. She then Googled Maynard’s name and eventually called Libby’s Legacy Breast Cancer Foundation to provide the information.
Maynard responded to the scene and found her scooter with the ignition popped out and the steering column drilled off.
The former crime scene investigator looked for fingerprints, but she said it had been wiped down using bleach.
She taped the whole thing on her phone and posted videos to her Facebook page. The good Samaritan will receive a free rubdown from Bodyscape Massage in Orlando. As in the earlier manhunt, congratulatory notes peppered Maynard’s Facebook page on Thursday.
“Nice work detective Robin,” one commenter wrote.
But another writer offered some practical advice:
“Now lock it up for gosh sakes!!”
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