Rick Hoppen shared the news indignantly on Facebook this morning. His motorcycle was stolen last night during the Boerenrock Festival. ‘For the last time around half past two in the morning! If someone knows something, let’s know, “he wrote.
Hopping looked up weird this morning. “Tonight at half past two he was still there, but this morning we woke up and suddenly got away. You think ‘Where did it go’, but in the first instance you think it might just be a friend’s area. And that it is simply behind the caravan. But that was not the case.”
Hoppen’s engine was not locked tonight. “He just stood on the goat and everyone trusts each other here. But apparently that is not possible.”
The organization of Boerenrock reacts angry with the incident. “The perpetrators have broken into the back of the site through the fences and then drove away with the engine towards Gasselternijveen. This behavior is totally unacceptable,” the organization writes on Instagram. “We all do everything we can to turn Boerenrock into a great and safe party. And then this happens.”
Fortunately for hopping, good news came later in the day. The organization of Festival received an anonymous tip that the perpetrators had left the engine in the forest.
“It took a day, but he is back,” says Hoppen relieved. He would ride the Enduro today, but that was canceled. “Fortunately I have friends with a motorcycle and I could still ride.”
The engine is back and the party continues, but hopping will now lock its engine. “I won’t let this happen a second time.”