nathanm
Eats Squid
So a few weeks ago my Merida one forty 7.9 was stolen from my backyard.
Pretty rare bike so I've been stalking the buy and sell pages and last night it turns up on Facebook.
Messaged the "seller" as a keen "buyer" and organised a meet up today in a restaurant car park under the proviso I'd be bringing $2k cash.
Got straight onto the local CIB police officer who was investigating and organised for him to come to the viewing as well.
The police have been brilliant in this process and when I arrived at the meet up they were already there, 4 officers in 2 cars already interrogating the seller.
The seller had organised his daughter to bring the bike and she was all like "oh is it stolen or something"? Yeah luv your dad's either a thief or loves receiving stolen goods.
Anyway I get the bike back tomorrow and the only thing they've done is change the pedals.
If anyone's interested I can post up the screenshots of the convo with the seller. The dude was absolutely clueless in every respect.
Pretty rare bike so I've been stalking the buy and sell pages and last night it turns up on Facebook.
Messaged the "seller" as a keen "buyer" and organised a meet up today in a restaurant car park under the proviso I'd be bringing $2k cash.
Got straight onto the local CIB police officer who was investigating and organised for him to come to the viewing as well.
The police have been brilliant in this process and when I arrived at the meet up they were already there, 4 officers in 2 cars already interrogating the seller.
The seller had organised his daughter to bring the bike and she was all like "oh is it stolen or something"? Yeah luv your dad's either a thief or loves receiving stolen goods.
Anyway I get the bike back tomorrow and the only thing they've done is change the pedals.
If anyone's interested I can post up the screenshots of the convo with the seller. The dude was absolutely clueless in every respect.
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