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The bike that I had stolen at the end of last year is now being advertised for sale on social media a couple of hours up the motorway from me.
The police have reopened the case and have suggested that if I can arrange to view and positively identify the bike then the local force can be on standby to back me up.
Has anyone successfully done this? I am happy to go and view it but I can see from the guys profile that he's not the sort of person to take it well plus I am concerned that presuming he has connections with the thieves then I may be bringing trouble home with me.
Any advice or tales of positive outcomes would be good to hear.
Sounds well dodgy to me. But, chances are after all this time he's not the person who stole it, it might have been though several people before it got to him. It could still be receiving stolen good though i suppose.
Yep my son did this a couple of years ago when he found his stolen bike on Gumtree, he called the police who suggested he set up a meeting. When he did so he got the police to attend, met the scumbag and the police intervened, asked detailed questions about the bike and my son got it back. Later, he put it up for sale and had someone come round claiming it was their nicked bike. Apparently it had been sold to this poor guy, nicked back and put up for sale again!
The police have reopened the case and have suggested that if I can arrange to view and positively identify the bike then the local force can be on standby to back me up.
If you can supply them with the positive identity stuff, (presumably a frame number would be needed) can't they do the leg work?
Or try this and nick it back. http://www.ladbible.com/community/inspirational-woman-steals-bike-back-from-thieves-as-police-were-understaffed-20180127
yup, that's how I got my bike back after it was nicked. Two police officers pretended to be interested buyers while I sat in the back of their van, which was parked around the corner, waiting to identify the bike.