On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:36:03PM +1200, David Mann wrote: > On Jul 12, 2010, at 1:28 AM, Adam Maas wrote: > > > It can occasionally be a big crime, there was a bike theft case here > > in Toronto that made international news. Of course it's not everyday > > the cops catch a guy with a few thousand stolen bikes. > > There was a case here a year or two ago where one of our national > track-racing champions had her custom-built bike stolen. > > The publicity and the highly specialised nature of the bike made it > impossible, and probably dangerous, to try and sell. Whoever had taken it > dumped it behind a bike shop and it was returned to its rightful owner.
Much the same happened here in the Tour of California. Lance Armstrong's time trial bike was stolen out of the team van while it was parked in the hotel parking lot. After it was pointed out (on television, radio, etc., etc.) that the bike was unique - hardly a single part of it was a commercially available piece - and that it would be impossible for any purchaser to let anybody else see it, and furthermore that no questions would be asked if the bike were returned promptly, the police received a phone call telling them where the bike could be picked up. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
