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From Joe:

"The race they are doing is the 1st annual Sugar tri Kidz. The charity it benefits is the Snowdrop foundation benefitting Texas Children's hospital Cancer research. Catherine wants to donate any remaining funds to this charity, after bike replacement. "

$270 Collected so far!!  Awesome job everyone but we are not quite halfway to our goal of $600.  If only 30 people could give $10 we would be there and you would have a great chance in the raffle!  You could easily take care of all your Female holiday shopping with this raffle!  If it would help get more donations for Joe and his family, I could try and add some Men's colognes to the mix. 

C'mon BT let's get Catherine on that bike!!

*****UPDATE*****

The dectective just called me and said they got the guy and have recovered ALL of our stuff, including the bike!!!!!!
I am sooo excited, I am almost in tears! I dont know what the condition of the bike is, but they got it. We should have it back by next week, IN TIME FOR THE RACE!!!!!

Sweet news!!! (and too funny, as I just sent a small donation via PayPal)...please keep the $$ and "pay it forward" - make a donation to the charity involved with your daughter's race or something similar...

Very cool that the guy was caught AND your daughter will race on HER bike!!

Damn, I can't even give this crap product away

Seriously Joe, I am so glad everything worked out for your daughter and you must be so proud seeing her compete in tri's! I can't wait until my son (3) is old enough to start doing kids events.  Be sure to have her fill out RR for us to enjoy! Congrats again and Props to your Local PD!

For the 10 generous people that made donations, please pm me with details on how you want your money back or if you want it to be donated to Snowdrop Foundation or whatever else you want done with it.

Please let me know as it is no longer for me to decide.

From the bottom of our hearts, we all thank you very much, for the money and the prayers and encouraging words. It was all appreciated.

The Fort Bend County Sherriff did a fantastic job from start to finish.

Joe, Bonnie, Catherine & Zack.

Great news!!!!!!!

Please donate my portion of the money to charity.  Thanks.

ps - please make sure your daughter does a race report.  

Joe,

Donate mine to the charity.  I'm just glad I was able to help, and SUPER glad that the scumbag was caught and you guys got your stuff back.

1st timer; do the raffle anyway!  I am with Jessicadawn.  My wife and my oldest daughter both use Estee Lauder and Clinique almost exclusively, and it costs me a fortune.  If I am lucky enough to win some, I'd do cartwheels (and I've never done a cartwheel).

Heh...Joe's daughter will be picking a winner and get in touch with them for a somewhat scaled down version of the original version..still pretty loaded though.  If you want to PM about what your wife/daughter use from EL/Clinique I'll see what I have.  I hear you about the cost, I can't believe what we charge(and people pay) for our product.

I went to the police property recovery room today and picked up all our stuff. Everything was in great condition.

The bike did not have a scratch on it! it looks just as good as it did before!!

Catherine will pick a name out of a hat on Friday, I will take pics of the process and post them along with the wining name friday evening.

Thanks again for everything.

We love BT!!!!!

You know, despite this starting as a really, really bad thing, it's turned into a really, really good thing.  Has really made me see that there are truely some good people left out there in the world...and my god some of them are actually ON THE INTERNET!?!!??!

It's very exciting- again, wish her a good race.

What a happy ending! My local tri club the TriPsyclones is hosting Catherine's race, so I made sure and shared this wonderful thread with that group and the RD.

Have fun out there, Catherine - we are rooting for you!

When I got home with the bike last night, jumped up and down screeming "my bike, my bike, that's MY bike!!!" Then she kissed it, a few times!!!

She was so happy to see it!

That's a bunch of sick, mixed-up, bike-fetished kids you're raising ther, fishman. Keep up the good work! I guess you're waiting til they're growed up to tell them the secret to bike speed lies in the color red?

Use mine to help buy her a pair of gloves or something else she can use.

Clifford

Heh....I do try!

the bike has some red accents...

Yes, gee, who does she get that from... Dad who can't contain himself from hammering with the lead pack on regular 80-mile rides... or Mom who  is right there beside him doing the exact same thing?    Happy to read the glad news.