Gone in 30 SECONDS! Bike thieves break steering lock on chef’s scooter and wheel it off in slick daylight raid
- Aaron Storey’s bike was taken from outside Victoria Hotel in Lowestoft, Suffolk
- CCTV shows two people moving the locked Honda PCX125 on Sunday morning
- Mr Storey, 29, is chef at the hotel and has reported the theft to Suffolk Police
This is the shocking moment that bike thieves wearing helmets break a steering lock on a scooter and wheel it off in a daytime raid.
Aaron Storey, 29, parked his Honda PCX125 in a bay closest to the road outside The Victoria Hotel in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on Sunday morning.
CCTV cameras show a man wearing grey tracksuit bottoms, a black jacket and black helmet stepping over the low wall and using his feet to push at the steering lock.
One man wearing a black helmet and grey tracksuit bottoms kicks at the Honda PCX125’s steering lock (left) before another man in a white helmet (right) touches the front of the bike
Another person then appears and bends down to the scooter’s front wheel before jumping back over the wall.
The first man smoothly wheels the bike around the wall and walks it down the road, away from the hotel, with the entire theft taking 30 seconds.
Mr Storey, who is a chef at the hotel, said: ‘I park my Honda pcx125 in the same spot at work and have done since before I had that particular bike, it was fitted with a steering lock that was on at the time of the theft.
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‘As far as I can gather, that’s how he broke the steering lock [by pushing on the handle bars with his feet].
‘The steering lock is activated once the ignition is off and the key is removed, it locks the handlebars meaning they can’t be straightened out.’
‘I thought that [the steering lock wasn’t very efficient] when I watched the CCTV back and see how easy it was to break it.’
The second man quickly walks away (left) as the first smoothly wheels the bike around the corner (right) onto the path outside The Victoria Hotel in Lowestoft, Suffolk
Aaron Storey’s Honda PCX125 (pictured) was taken from outside the hotel on Sunday morning
Mr Storey said the theft was reported to the police who said there was nothing they could do as their faces we not visible on the CCTV footage.
He said: ‘Think her words where something like “‘the problem is they have their face covered by a helmet before they turn up so you can’t actually see their faces”.
‘I was pretty shocked to hear this, as if they had expected them to turn up in daylight with their faces on show.’
Suffolk Constabulary have been contacted by MailOnline for commment.
Mr Storey is a chef at the hotel, pictured, and said he always parks his bike in the same spot
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