On Jul 10, 2010, at 14:59 , Cotty wrote:
On 10/7/10, John Celio, discombobulated, unleashed:
When the officer said he would be forced to run a check on all the
serial numbers on all the bikes in his van for stolen property, the
seller
quickly said he'd let me take the bike if we'd leave, and that was
that!
Did the police pursue this? In the UK that seller would have been
arrested on suspicion of dealing in stolen property.
Can't give you exact figures, but I read (or heard) that over 10,000
bikes are stolen a day in the US. Too much time and money on the part
of the cops to track them down. They will and do follow an informants
lead that assuredly takes them to an address where a "one man repair
shop" has hundreds of bikes that come and go in large quantity. Sort
of like if your unemployed neighbor has dozens of bikes in his garage,
and another 50-100 in the back yard, and tells you he "fixes them up
for charity", and buys a new car every few years.
As was the case here in Seattle last year.
Joseph McAllister
Lots of gear, not much time
http://gallery.me.com/jomac
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