What's interesting here is that, shortly after the Adchoppers
disappeared from the Downtown area, Mark Bell decided that I was
involved in it. He sent this email to me the day after I noticed the
bikes disappearing enmass from the Downtown area:

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adchoppers <adchoppers@...> wrote:
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:07:05 -0000
Subject: Re: The Adchoppers Fiasco

1. I thought you guys were smarter
2. How many surveillance cameras are in Honolulu?
3. How long does DNA stay in abc (already been chewed) gum?
4. Pay to replace the cut locks and the bikes that were not
recovered (don't worry they are not $600 each) and I will not press
charges.
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The email shows that he knew about my article. I'm guessing that some
one forwarded a copy of it to him. Perhaps he thought that some one,
inspired to act upon reading my post, decided to cut some locks and
steal the bikes. If that was the case, then they sure waited a long
time before they did something. The article was posted on Dec 12,
2006 and the bikes were stolen about THREE WEEKS later. So, whatever
loyal minions I am supposed to have sure took their sweet time. I
replied to Bell by saying that I didn't cut his locks or steal his
bikes and that I didn't even see it happen. Here was his response:

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Mark Bell <adchoppers@...> wrote:
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 20:03:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: The Adchoppers Fiasco

Police Officer Laroizabal from HPD asked that you meet with him
tomorrow morning at 9:45am for questioning at the Hawaii Kai Police
Station, next to the Satellite City Hall. He will also be asking you
to make a written statement. You may contact Officer Laroizabal at:
395-2612.
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I thought it interesting that HPD would have an outsider (i.e. some
one not directly connected to the police department) convey their
wishes that I should come in for questioning. HPD simply doesn't work
that way. As some of us already know, if HPD wants to talk to you,
they call you themselves. I decided to call the substation first to
see if they really wanted to talk to me.

First, Bell got the name of the officer wrong. There is no "Officer
Laroizabal", but there is an officer whose name *SOUNDS* similar. If
Bell wants to be a conveyor of an HPD summons, he should get the
names right.

Second, the officer pointed-out that HPD would have contacted me
themselves if they had wanted to talk to me and not some one with no
authority whatsoever.

Third, I did not need to go into the station, and there seemed to be
no evidence that I was involved in the thefts. They didn't even know
that Bell had contacted me and told me to go to the substation. They
weren't exactly thrilled that Bell had done that.

When HPD finally did call me, I told them I had nothing to do with
the thefts and didn't see who did it, which is true. I was asked if I
wanted to fill-out a written statement and I declined. The officer
told me that I didn't need to make a written statement. He was
unaware of the two emails Bell sent to me and told me that he was
going to talk to him about those.

As far as the Downtown area, at least, the Adchoppers are gone and
I'm glad they're gone.