At 3:29 a.m. one recent night, a 28-year-old man who was taking a train to a friend’s home in Stamford had gotten off at the wrong train station, but he found a bicycle there which seemed abandoned, so he was planning to ride it to his friend’s home.Bi
That’s what police say the man told them Sunday, Nov. 29 when they say they found him at the Noroton Heights Railroad Station, straddling a gold colored La Jolla brand bicycle on the north side of the tracks. The rear tire, however, was deflated.
Police described the incident with this account (with accusations not proven in court):
The man said he had been drinking earlier at a family member’s house in Bridgeport.
Police took both the man and the bicycle into custody. The man, a Bridgeport resident, was charged with sixth-degree larceny and released at 9:30 a.m. on a promise to appear Dec. 11 in state Superior Court in Stamford.
The bicycle, which had nothing on it to identify it other than a serial number, appears not to have been reported stolen in Darien or anywhere in the state. The man told police it had been leaning against the platform on the north side of the tracks. Police estimate its value at $160.