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Bike recovery

2012-08-16 15:36:18.096529+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

From Shadow:

Live Leak - Guy finds stolen bike on Craigslist 160 miles away, sets up home-made sting, confronts the thief and gets his bicycle back, thief gets felony arrest. (video)

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#Comment Re: made: 2012-08-17 15:04:00.47427+02 by: ebwolf

Makes me wonder how hard it would be to contact someone on Craiglist, call the cops, and make up some BS about the item being yours? Sure, stealing bikes is wrong but the vigilantes in this video didn't appear to have any real evidence that:

  1. The bike was actually his stolen bike (not even a picture of him on the bike)
  2. The "a**hole" actually stole it.
  3. The girlfriend had anything to do with the situation.

It'll be a sucky world when any person with a cell phone camera can accuse you of whatever they like and post it to the web without repurcussions.

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