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Police said not a chance they would be recovered...
a week later they are heading up I -75 and another racer who pitted beside them called on his cell phone to say he was getting gas and looked into one of the work bays and saw an orange bike with # 81 on it ! police arrivved and the kid was actually doing wheelies on the road with it, but turned out ther was no oil in the bike...
remember that bumber sticker "ride it like you stole it" ?
It can happen... just don't hold your breath.
The Shop
opened the door to the garage out back. Grabbed the bike tossed it into the truck with no tie downs and got the hell out of there.
In the other case the theif's brother in law got pissed at him and turned him in for the cash.The cops were called on this and went to retrieve it.
The first one was stolen from my buddies garage. He contacted the police and they walked around the neighborhood and said that nothing or no one seemed suspicious. They said that was about all that they could do and then left. My buddies neighbor was a bit of a troublemaker but there was always some respect between the two. My buddy told his neighbor about what had happened and told him he would give him $200 if he found it. The next day the neighbor went and stole it back from the original thiefs and put it back in my buddies garage. An alarm system was then installed that week!
The second one was again stolen from a different friends garage. The sheriff was able to track it to the edge of the property where it was loaded into a vehicle. Time came and went and nothing was heard. Then a guy in town was busted for drugs and there in his basement was my buddies bike. After the police recovered it he was then able to identify it and get it back!
Yeah, there was a bunch of dirt-bike thievery in our little town in the late '90's
(as there probably is now) - me and a friend both had our kids' mx bikes stolen -
a month or so later I was picking my son up from school and randomly drove
by a house that had my friends' boys' CR-80 out front, minus the numbers - but
I knew it was his...we got together with a gun and a baseball bat and knocked on door,
dad said that a kid gave the bike to his kid, acted nonchalant (3$ grand bike, yeah..)
- we called the cops and ultimately uncovered my bikes, too...That was fun, by the way...
If you get enough heat on it they'll dump it, it's not worth it to them.
Cops basically told me "fat chance we'll find it".
A year and a half later a police officer called me at work out of the blue - he said that he rides, so he takes a personal interest in trying to find stolen MX bikes. He likes to randomly pull over trucks with bikes in the back to check VINs, especially when the scenario looks suspicious.
He found a couple guys that..... didn't look like the typical moto enthusiast (I'll leave it at that) in a beat up truck heading to Elsinore - pulled them over and sure enough, it was mine.
At the time I lived off of Cal Oaks road and the 15 - the bike was recovered just miles up the road and it was pretty different from the typical CRF at the time (it was a magazine bike loaded with tons of aftermarket stuff)...so you'd think it would be easy to see / spot.
Thing is, they're so easy to hide; your odds are slim.
It was impounded and sent to a salvage yard (my insurance company had already paid me off - another nightmare to deal with) - I wanted to go to the salvage yard auction to buy it back (for the right price only), but they wouldn't tell me ANYTHING about when the auction would occur.
I just gave up and forgot about it.
Well, just last year (Yes, NINE years later) I got a call from the Dayton PD saying that they recovered one of my RM125s!
So, we make the four-hour drive to pick it up and have to pay almost 700 bucks to get the bike (which is probably worth maybe 1,000 now) out of impound. Awesome!
A fresh piston and she fired right up.
I still can't believe they recovered it after all these years...
Pit Row
My bikes were stolen out of my trailer, right behind an apartment complex in my hometown. It was an inside job and relative of a friend at a local practice track. A farmer reported motorcycle sounds on his property and the local police went to investigate and found my bikes stripped of stickers in some bushes.
Scumbags
One time I heard the guy and managed 2 good punches to the head before I had to grab the bike to prevent it from falling.
The second time I caught a ride home and we came by the scene of an accident. The thief was just out for a joy ride, missed the braking point and t-boned a car. I could have filed an insurance report but the cops put the heat on the parents instead and they put up the cash to fix the bike instead of seeing their kid go off to jail.
http://www.stolenmotorcycleregistry.com/index.php
Oh, and one time in College my roomates "stole" my bike as a prank. They finally came clean after I had already called the cops. Thirty minutes of pure panic. F-ing assholes. :-P
They guy who stole the bike had given it to his son to race...talk about good parenting
Coincidentally it happened to be the people I told the worthless police probably took them.
But even in the US you can get screwed if you go all medieval on a thief. Unless you feel you are cornered and your life is in danger.
It's like playing sport. The ref never seems to nail the original offender., but they are pretty quick to nail you for "retaliation". What's up with that?
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