Cycling in Melbourne Australia
Where I found my STOLEN BIKE
Hello!
Last Tuesday someone stole my bike from the backyard of my girlfriends apartment in St Kilda. My girlfriend went nuts calling local pawnshops and 2nd hand dealers and found it in:
Money Centre- Cash Converters in Richmond 609 Bridge road.
There were a few other expensive bikes that didn't look like pawnshop material there, so just letting you know in case anyone living around this area got a bike stolen too.
After a few days of back and forth with the police, court and shop, I got my bike back! Good luck to all others that got their bikes pinched!
Tags: bicycle, bike, pawnbroker, stealing, stolen
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Steve Jay on -
This is why secondhand dealers are licenced and have to keep full records. It's the EASIEST way to get stolen gear back :-)
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Permalink Reply by John E. on -
Yep, but the bastards will make you get a court order and wait the full time limit on that order; crime would drop by 50% if they had proper video surveillance in the pawnbrokers and had to provide proper ID when selling something to them. I asked one shop why they had such a crappy video system and not a better one, his reply: "nobody would sell us anything then, mate". Cash Converters et al are the biggest 'fences' of stolen goods in the country.
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Permalink Reply by Adrian Tritschler on -
Despite all their attempts to project a squeaky clean image and all the licencing and records that they have to keep, seems that anytime a bike is stolen you're often advised to go straight to the nearest theft-converters and check for it. The whole industry is a joke, and the police know it.
Good on you for getting it back, so many of them just disappear.
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