Originally Posted by
Mondo734
Here is how I see it. Call the police and ask if its stolen. Provide them with the serial number and have them run it to see if its registered to anyone. If its not registered or been reported stolen then post some flyers around the neighborhood. I'm not talkin about a 10 mile radius but within a few blocks. If no contacts you within a month keep the bike. If you just hand it over to the police it will end up at an auction and from what I have seen at the police auctions the kids bikes only sell for like 10-50 dollars. I don't see how its any better to just give it to the police if its not stolen or registered to an owner when all they are gonna do is sell it.
Unfortunately, LEO’s (Law Enforcement Officers) of various demographics simply don’t concern themselves with bicycle theft, so giving them a bicycle’s serial number amounts to little more than an exercise in futility. Naturally, it’s worth a try, as LEO’s in some precincts actually work for a living, but as was demonstrated per my precinct, it was purely a wasted effort on my behalf, as they wouldn’t lift a single pork-riddled finger to check if the bicycle I had brought to their station had been stolen. When I tried to hand them its serial number, which I had written on a piece of paper, they declined to accept it! That’s how useless these gun-toting imbeciles are around here and this is why “
We The People” are finding it increasingly necessary to take the law into our own hands, as these poor excuses for law enforcement have failed us on so many levels!