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Then after a while, they called asking if my bike was "green, with a number 32 on the plates?" It had been impounded along with a load of other stuff after a raid on a known burglar the day after it was stolen from me, but the guys on the desk didn't have the brains to link a KX125 stolen from me, to a KX125 found at a burglars' house, because "they were 2 seperate cases"..
I'd been walking in there every day, and it had been literally just round the corner in a yard.
Oh well, luckily it was all in one piece along with all my riding kit.
In 2009 I had my CRF250 and my son's CRF70 in a storage facility for just 30 days so I could rework the inside of my garage. The 70 was my son's first bike and he was just getting started riding. The storage facility got broken into and 10 of the mini garages were opened. I had both of our bikes against the back wall and piled boxes up so you couldn't see them from the door, but they still found them anyway. I went through the regular routine with the police and they had my VIN numbers. We live in Massachusetts.
2 years later I get a call from the Department of Motor Vehicles in Connecticut. It seems as though an investigator had an engine number that tied back to my VIN number, that tied back to my stolen property report. The investigators said they found my son's bike and it was in a private impound lot in New Haven Connecticut. I called the impound lot and the person that answered the phone hold up their record and found my son's CRF70. He told me that the storage charge on the bike was $1,500. I told him that this was stolen property and it was my son's bike and I would like to pick it up. He was unwilling to negotiate the $1,500. I told him fine and handed the phone to my son and tell him this is the guy that has your bike. After a minute on the phone with my son he dropped the storage charge to $150.
Once I got to Impound lot I realized this is a giant scam. When a bike is impounded they don't ever expect it to go back to the original owner. There were a lot of impounded ATVs and motorcycles at this lot. When I was there, there were a number of people walking through the stolen goods deciding which ones they wanted when they became available.
The CRF70 was beaten to hell of course. I contacted New Haven Police and wanted to press charges against the person they had busted with my son's bike. They gave me no help at all and told me that I should just be happy I got the bike back.
I never got my CRF250 back. The worst part was that my son lost his interest in riding after that because I couldn't afford to buy another bike right away.
After this thief got his ass kicked by his his family members. I was able to pick my bike up.
A year later, my garage was broken into. Same bike was stolen. Never seen again. I browse Craigslist in the Los Angeles area often, hoping it pops up one day.
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People like that deserve some unsavory work to say the least.
Years ago, the little woman had a new PW80 for her older son. It was stolen and gone a good while... eventually she finds out that the son of an a-hole who owns a towing company has been riding it on their family property. The bike was recovered, along with multiple other bikes. They all went straight to this "towing company impound" AKA the towing company owner's garage.
Towing company dickhead wants 900 dollars in storage fees to release the stolen bike. He has had it for at least a year and a half, no cop ever went in and reported that it had been recovered, nobody ever called the little woman to tell her.
Little woman had to take the towing company A hole to small claims court- he acted as though she were trying to steal from him. This is a bike she bought new, had the certificate of origin, and a police report of the theft
Our system in the US is pathetic. Better lock/guard/insure your stuff because our criminal justice system in a non functional joke. Nobody gives a shit....not even a little
Afterwards I told the detective that I recovered one of my bikes. He was like why didn’t you tell us where it was? I told him because i doubt they would have been able to get it/actually did anything. He concurred
It was a wreck, plus they'd sprayed the plastics black. I wished the police had never found it.
Buddy rings me, says its being ridden at a free ride place next to his farm,
Went down mob handed and relieved him of it,.
Called the cops, they were uninterested.
Contacted a family friend that happened to be a member of the Vagos. We rolled up with a few associates and collected my wife’s bike. I can say that the kid wasn’t harmed physically, but there was definitely a fear of God instilled into him.
He's now graduated with his master's and maybe with a little spare time we can get back to it.
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