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Dirtbagdownhill t1_jabvjbq wrote

Dude your my new favorite stranger. If you wanna sort out the bike shit there are some very questionable resources right here on reddit.

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leviwhite9 t1_jacb0g1 wrote

Ah my poor neighbor buddy had his nicked and I'm just slightly above that so....

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TommenBrady t1_jacm23z wrote

Don’t know about where you live, but if you report your bike stolen here, you get invited to the police bike auction and can get really nice bikes dirt cheap in a somewhat moralistic way

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knd775 t1_jacqe22 wrote

How do the police get the bikes?

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Natanael_L t1_jacr8yj wrote

Abandoned bikes plus recovered bikes with no identified owner.

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LouSputhole94 t1_jad6jec wrote

Also that whole fun civil forfeiture thing they’ve got going on

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TommenBrady t1_jacrfsn wrote

A lot of bikes that are stolen are quickly abandoned and not everyone files a police report so they store them. And even people who had filed police reports will have often done it for an insurance claim and have a new bike by the time theirs is found, so it doesn’t get claimed . They do the same thing with seized and found cars

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leviwhite9 t1_jacxc2j wrote

That's a shame because I'm a few decades past being a kid and was never talking about needing a jacket.

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