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Serial 18-year-old caught again with stolen skis in Tyro
An 18-year-old German has been arrested again in Tyrol with stolen skis. The young man was caught on Wednesday at the valley station in Scheffau (SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser - Brixental). A few weeks ago, he had also been stopped by bystanders after a major ski theft in the Zillertal.
Previously arrested in Hochzillertal
At the beginning of March, the suspect tried to flee from the Hochzillertal - Hochfügen ski area with a car full of stolen skis, together with a peer. According to the police, there were a total of eight pairs of skis worth 10,000 euros in the car. The flight failed because several bystanders stopped the car by standing in front of it. Read our earlier article about this.
Dozens of skis offered for sale
During further investigation, police discovered that the 18-year-old had repeatedly put expensive skis up for sale on an online sales platform between early February and mid-March. According to the police, some of these could be directly linked to thefts in the Zillertal and Kitzbühel regions.
Possibly involved in many more thefts
The young man is suspected of being responsible not only for the previously known eight stolen pairs of skis, but for another thirty other ski thefts. According to the police, he would have sold 18 pairs of skis and earned several tens of thousands of euros. The other twelve pairs would still be in his possession.
The defendant has confessed
During his interrogation, the 18-year-old confessed, according to the police, as he did at the beginning of March. He has been released pending trial.
https://www.heute.at/s/schon-wieder-skidieb-18-auf-frischer-tat-ertappt-120174772
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@stanton,
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| eight pairs of skis worth 10,000 |
Musta been a carload of Stöcklis then! I have personally never paid even close to > €1000 for my skis, and I always take top of the line gear!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Steilhang wrote: |
@stanton,
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| eight pairs of skis worth 10,000 |
Musta been a carload of Stöcklis then! I have personally never paid even close to > €1000 for my skis, and I always take top of the line gear! |
Replacement price easily gets there. Yeah, I wouldn't pay the full prices myself, but a quick check of latest versions of my 3 current skis reveals RRP of well over €1000 for each of them. (Yeah, the Stoecklis (now called the Laser GS) are the most expensive, at something like chf1600 including binding).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Not just young thieves.
Saw a ~70yo grandma (in France) lift a pair of gloves last week.
Trust nobody.
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Pity it’s not in the Daily Mail. Then we could learn the inflated value of where he lives.
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@Steilhang, The skis I have been using for the past few seasons - Stöckli Montero AX, are €1200 for a pair (without bindings!), though you can get a discount off that if you look around. Most other Stöcklis are that or more. A discerning thief could easily rack up €10k's worth of skis in the back of a car. Like much else associated with skiing buying skis is getting to be very expensive.
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@munich_irish, my Head Rebels are listed over 1K€, but paid 700 with binding. Nobody pays full price.
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| stanton wrote: |
| Serial 18-year-old … |
Can you be a “serial 18 year old”? For many years, on her birthday, my MIL used to say she was “21 again” - is that the same thing?
| stanton wrote: |
| At the beginning of March, the suspect tried to flee … with a car full of stolen skis, together with a peer. |
Lord Lucan, perhaps?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Red Leon wrote: |
| stanton wrote: |
| Serial 18-year-old … |
Can you be a “serial 18 year old”? |
Older Disney Channel star?
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You know it makes sense.
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Some ski's might have a retail price that is over a grand, my view of those that pay that much he is irrelevant, but secondhand skis are going to be far far less, and if they are worth so much either new or secondhand perhaps the owners should be taking more care of them, as the saying goes, fools and their money
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Chaletbeauroc wrote: |
| Steilhang wrote: |
@stanton,
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| eight pairs of skis worth 10,000 |
Musta been a carload of Stöcklis then! I have personally never paid even close to > €1000 for my skis, and I always take top of the line gear! |
Replacement price easily gets there. Yeah, I wouldn't pay the full prices myself, but a quick check of latest versions of my 3 current skis reveals RRP of well over €1000 for each of them. (Yeah, the Stoecklis (now called the Laser GS) are the most expensive, at something like chf1600 including binding). |
Similar here, my new skis were price listed at €1300 for this season’s model, but paid much less at my local ski shop.
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Poster: A snowHead
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He'd be welcome to my £50 10 year old Salomons, it would force me to replace them!
Joking aside its good to be reminded that things like this go on, I never lock my skis as they are practically worthless but if I owned a decent pair I'd definitely consider some form of lock.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| japes1275 wrote: |
He'd be welcome to my £50 10 year old Salomons, it would force me to replace them!
Joking aside its good to be reminded that things like this go on, I never lock my skis as they are practically worthless but if I owned a decent pair I'd definitely consider some form of lock. |
I lock mine anytime I leave them - including in a shared boot room (unless I have a private locker). I've done this ever since my old skis were nicked in 1991. It's not just the cost of replacement that's an issue, it's the sheer ball ache of having to get off the mountain without skis, file a police report, insurance claim then find a replacement. Over the years we've seen everything from people taking the wrong skis / boots out of the boot room to spotting thieves taking one of our split skis and looking for the matching other.
I also take my poles into any bar/restaurant as they are an easy £100+ bunce for a thief or just an idiot who has broken theirs.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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My family mixes pairs for lunch stops. They are “only” rentals but yes annoying.
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at Glenshee in February I put my skis and poles down for 5 mins when handing back the kids' hire stuff, came back out and some guy was walking away with the poles. collared him and said er those are my poles and he made some excuse about thinking that the rack was where you got the hire stuff, which was an obvious lie. I was with my kids and was so surprised I just let it slide after that. The guy was wearing jeans and we were leaving at 1400 as it was so rainy, so he will have got his comeuppance poles or no poles
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@RickBoden, I don't think there's really a secondary market in poles. But, idiots ...
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I had someone 'swap' my Carbon 14 Leki poles for same size but Alu versions ... so, not just idiots but also thieves ...
My partner had someone take her rental skis instead of theirs despite being a completely different colour and the bindings set too large. Fortunately we found the miscreant as she was a beginner who, unsurprisingly, kept falling out of her skis so we found her on the slopes.
As a result I know always bring a lock with me and lock up my skis and poles !
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