I overheard your nanny on the phone with you today on the subway. She was carrying your 2-ish daughter, a large backpack, a diaper sized, orange messenger bag and her handbag and trying to explain to you that your stroller had been stolen. By the sound of this side of the conversation, you were not at all very nice to her. She was practically in tears when she got off the phone with you. I live in Bay Ridge where stroller theft is becoming more and more of a problem. I am a responsible parent of two children and my stroller was stolen just last Wednesday. So, please try to be a little more understanding. Your nanny seemed like a very sweet and conscientious person. And to parents and nannies in Bay Ridge, beware. Strollers are being snatched left and right!
Bay Ridge; photo by Iliana Zuniga
25 comments:
Couldn't find a picture of Bay Ridge Strollers?
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Hey, my stroller didn't sign any model release form to be pictured in this blog! Besides, Park Slope is not Bay Ridge.
well i think it says park slope right there and up top it says bay ridge, so maybe they didnt have any er ummmm photos of stroller in bay ridge on file for use?
this photo illustrates the tryst we have when we park and prop our strollers all over our neighborhoods, whether in brooklyn heights or the UES.
I know someone who had 2 stroller stolen in the month of August. 2. From nice areas in Bay Ridge. I just cannot wrap my head around who is doing this? And where do the strollers go?
These little gangs are using them for bike parts. You know the bikes that use tiny wheels? They are called mini bikes or something.
Wow, stealing baby strollers?? That's low! I will say however, I never leave my stroller unattended for fear of that happening, this is the first I ever heard of it happening though.
People are parking their strollers to have trysts, LOL.
5:50-that's a joke, right?
Did you mean to say we have trust (not trysts)?!
Wow, how could that mom get upset with the nanny. Its not like she was planning for the stroller to disappear, and she ended up carrying everything by hand. Some people probably take them and resell. Thats sad, thats why I never wanted an expensive stroller to lug around, afraid someone would take it.
Last Septmeber my car was stolen with my expensive twin stroller and car seats in it. We got back the car, but not the stuff in it. Some 8 or 9 months later I saw a woman in a neigbourhood store with my stroller. I chose not to confront her because I figured she probably bought it at a yard sale or something. I never thought about anyone stealing my stroller any other way. I guess I'll be more cautious now!
Why don't you bike-lock these strollers to the fence? That is so crazy that people are stealing strollers.
2:40 Hi
How did you know it was your stroller that the woman had. Just curious
2:33...well, it had distinctive markings that I recognized easily as mine.
901....not a bad idea.
What a horrible mom to be upset with the nanny. Poor nanny! :(
I hope this nanny doesn't offer to help pay for another stroller. Its not her fault. She should tell the mom to buy a lock then she can lock the next stroller. Its ashame that we have to do that nowadays.
My niece's strolled was stolen while we were at an amusement park last fall. Terrible - 9 hours away from home with a 20 month old and no stroller. We split up and searched the park for her stroller. It was a very popular Graco stroller, we saw many of the same stroller, but none of them had the stickers on them that hers had.
That is good to know. I'm so naive leaving the stroller "alone" in the park...after all I can't take it with me up on the junglegym...
I work in Bay Ridge...
I don't know if it helps to mean Moms but I collected a ticket last week... almost priced as a middle quality stroller...but I have a cool boss...
"collected a ticket"? Huh? What kind of ticket? What does it have to do with a stroller? You lost me.
JD,
Thanks for putting this Bay Ridge story out there on the net. It piqued the curiosity of more people and a brooklyn newspaper is publishing a story on it!
Hopefully this will stop the thievery. My husband thinks it is one bad nanny who calls in the locations of "accessible" strollers to someone she knows.
??? Has yet to be proved.
I don't get the ticket thing. Is english that poster's first language?
11:26, they give tickets for leaving strollers unattended? I'm confused.
Sorry to confuse you folks. After the stroller problem, I was thinking about the screaming Mom...and the fact how lucky I'm with the family I'm working for. I drive their car, and I got a ticket for something I was supposed to see (sign right front of me)a plain parking information.
My Boss did not yell at me only she said: Oh, this is our first ticket on that car...
One more time sorry about make my words misunderstable.
My stroller got snactched up yesterday.
Bastards.
I have about 4 used strollers in good condition that I can't seem to give away, so you're saying I could drive to this neighborhood and just leave them and someone will take them?
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