01-03-2018, 08:14 PM
(01-03-2018, 10:38 AM)goggolor Wrote: My stolen bike saga has a somewhat happy ending... a few months after my second (brand new) bike was stolen I got a call from the Cambridge police. My bike was found when they busted that giant warehouse of stolen bikes this summer. Unfortunately the thieves had already chopped it up quite a bit, but my credit card insurance paid for King St Cycles to bring it back to the original condition.
Now my bikes live indoors... even having my new bike chained to the snowblower with a Kryptonite lock wasn't enough to keep someone from stealing it.
One question I have about big warehouse busts is how the entire inventory is handled. Obviously some of the bikes will be identified, proven to be stolen, seized, and returned to their owners if they can be found. But what about ones that can’t be individually proven to be stolen? I would hope that at some point, enough stolen property mixed into a warehouse should make the possessor of the stolen goods liable to have the entire property and its complete contents confiscated, on the theory that it is simply not believable that if, say, 10% of bikes mixed through a warehouse operated by a proven thief are stolen, the other 90% are mostly legit.
I fear that the legal system may be too lenient on crooked business enterprises. But I don’t actually know.