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TommenBrady t1_jacm23z wrote

Reply to comment by leviwhite9 in Hand me down name tag trail on this child’s jacket by Mofomania

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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