Originally Posted by
bigbenaugust
Actually, there's an old Jamis Earth Cruiser with a flat and a missing chain out in front of my building that the campus police have marked as derelict that they'll be coming for soon. I was thinking of snatching the rack off of it. It's been there for at least a year.
Given that the campus police have already "tagged" it as a derelict and are going to be removing it shortly why don't you just contact them and let them know that you are interested in it. They just might give you permission to remove it to save themselves the effort.