Girl’s Specialized Bike Stolen From Wyandotte Family’s Yard

WYANDOTTE, Mich. (WXYZ) — A Wyandotte woman says a thief recently stole a custom bike right out of her backyard earlier this week.

“We want the bike back…you need to know that what you did was wrong and it’s not okay to take things that don’t belong to you,” said Nicole Collins of Wyandotte.

The bike Collins is referring to is equipped with a special accessory for his 9-year-old daughter.

“It’s really the only way she can ride a bike. She’s 9 years old, but she’s about 2 years behind in her development. She had a lot of medical issues at birth. She still has a feeding tube and some physical deficits,” Collins said.

Collins says one of her daughter’s favorite activities is riding her bike.

“She asks me to go for a bike ride starting at 6:30 in the morning when she wakes up, and all day long she asks me, ‘Can we go for a bike ride? Can we go for a bike ride?’ until we go for a bike ride,” Collins said.

Collins has home surveillance video showing what appears to be a man opening their back door and grabbing the bike.

Watch the surveillance video below:

Video shows man in his backyard before Specialized bike was stolen in Wyandotte

“I feel really bad and violated, honestly, like I thought we lived in a semi-safe neighborhood. Nothing I know in the three years I’ve lived here has ever happened like this,” Collins said.

She reported the bike stolen to the Wyandotte Police Department.

Collins said she hopes the bike will be found as soon as possible.

“I don’t want anyone to feel like they have to buy us a bike or anything like that. I have the money to buy another bike. That’s the whole point of the bike, we have memories with it, obviously, but I just want our bike back,” Collins said.

If you have any information on the whereabouts of the Collin family’s bicycle, you can contact Wyandotte police at 734-324-4405.