Diane Selkirk got a text from a neighbour in her Vancouver condo building last Sunday morning, letting her know that someone had cut a hole in the parkade’s gate. 

By the time Selkirk went down to investigate, another resident had realized his family’s bicycles had been stolen out of the secured bike lock-up area. 

“We started realizing that it was a fairly significant break-in because we went into the bike cage and started counting the number of locks that were cut,” Selkirk said.