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Bike on adverts almost certainly stolen

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    #62
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users Posts: 3,990 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    It’s funny on google maps how one of the houses at that eircode is entirely fuzzed out....


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    #63
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    FileNotFound wrote: »
    Why - when we see a dirty thieving rat, normal people call it as it is.

    Name em. And hopefully someone will teach the rotten gits.

    please read post #24 about naming the seller.


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    #64
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    I caught (seen :-)) a guy robbing a neighbours bike. Followed him. Got a photo. Called the Garda told them where the guy was and what he was wearing. They took my details. Never contacted me. Left note for owner to contact me and I gave them the photo. They reported it. Garda called over to them. Photo shown of guy cycling away on stolen bike. Offered to Garda said no. Case closed. No investigation. Bike never seen again. This guy was easily identifiable.
    Welcome to Garda bike theft investigation.


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    #65
    Oberkon
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭Oberkon


    Kaisr Sose wrote: »
    I caught a guy robbing a bike. Followed him. Got a photo. Called the Garda told them where the guy was a s wHt he was wearing. They took my details. Never contacted me. Left note for owner to contact me and I gave them the photo. They reported it. Garda called over to them. Photo shown of guy cycling away on stolen bike. Offered to Garda said no. Case closed. No investigation. Bike never seen again. This guy was easily identifiable.
    Welcome to bike theft investigation.

    It’s Stories like that makes me realise Cagney and Lacey need to come out of retirement.


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    #66
    FileNotFound
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭FileNotFound


    Kaisr Sose wrote: »
    please read post #24 about naming the seller.

    Was only ranting, I know naming is not allowed on boards.

    Need a Facebook page for that.


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    #67
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Interestingly, if you search for the individual on Facebook, it returns a post he made selling the bike to a group called "Bikes Under A €1000" where he was also kind enough to post his Eircode.

    Click into his profile, and it's not the first Giant bike he's "sold" in that group either.

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    Different eircode on every ad.


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    #68
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    FileNotFound wrote: »
    Was only ranting, I know naming is not allowed on boards.

    Need a Facebook page for that.

    It was I that allegedly named them, that is if they really are silly enough to use their real name, and photo on the ad.


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    #69
    fat bloke
    Registered Users Posts: 5,860 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Bikerman2019 wrote: »
    And the alterative is they will ABSOLUTELY do nothing of the sort.

    So what should we have done, or what should we do next time a bike is for sale and suspected stolen.


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    #70
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,688 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Oberkon wrote: »
    It’s Stories like that makes me realise Cagney and Lacey need to come out of retirement.

    Jack Frost is the man


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    #71
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,688 ✭✭✭corks finest


    clevtrev wrote: »
    I visited 2 garda stations when my bike was put up on Adverts.ie. The first garda station asked where it was stolen from and when I told them they said it was outside of their area and to go to the garda station in that locality (Donnybrook). Not sure why it was relevant regarding where the bike was stolen from when it was sitting on the adverts.ie. Anyway when I got to that Donnybrook the station was closed for the night at 21:00. Obviously not a lot of night time crime to be tackled in Donnybrook!

    I Didn't really feel the garda had any interest in helping - I think the days of stings by the Garda to help you get your bike back are far and few between.

    Similar to a kidnapping time is of the essence so I bid on the bike and got it back myself.

    Ask for an appointment with the local inspector that is they only time the sergeant will listen, might take time but someone will get a bollocking at least


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    #72
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users Posts: 6,662 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Bikerman2019 wrote: »
    If you contact any site and say I THINK that is stolen, there is not a whole they can do about it.


    The only people who can act are the gardai.

    Contacted adverts in a similar situation in the past, they never replied.


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    #73
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 29,034 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Different eircode on every ad.

    Eircodes have seven characters, not six.


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    #74
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 29,034 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    68 lost souls wrote: »
    It’s funny on google maps how one of the houses at that eircode is entirely fuzzed out....

    There's one house for any Eircode.


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    #75
    magicbastarder
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    fat bloke wrote: »
    So what should we have done, or what should we do next time a bike is for sale and suspected stolen.
    not much, i can suspect. as per above, the gardai are not going to act, or be able to act, on the word of someone who has suspicions about a small ad, but has no connection to the bike whatsoever.

    adverts could possibly hellban an ad, but i don't think that'd make sense as it'd be too easy to suss out.


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    #76
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,993 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Eircodes have seven characters, not six.
    It has 7 characters - one was covered.


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    #77
    Bikerman2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 992 ✭✭✭Bikerman2019


    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    Contacted adverts in a similar situation in the past, they never replied.
    magicbastarder wrote: »
    this, again. the garda's reaction would be 'so there's this bike you know nothing about; have no evidence either way except a hunch - and you want us to do what about it?'
    even if the person has given their address, the gardai would need a warrant to search, and what judge is going to sign one off based on an online ad?

    This. ~


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    #78
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Eircodes have seven characters, not six.

    Thank you for the lesson in eircodes. However this particular chap has a different eircode on every ad he has up


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    #79
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users Posts: 3,990 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    There's one house for any Eircode.

    I know its just the first time I have ever seen that in a residential property


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    #80
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    68 lost souls wrote: »
    I know its just the first time I have ever seen that in a residential property

    Sometimes when construction work is going on this is done


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    #81
    rdwight
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭rdwight


    EltonJohn69 wrote: »
    Boards.ie members should set up a sting.... if Reddit can tank the stocks market then boards.ie can sabotage the sale of a stolen bike.

    Sounds like a good idea, but fraught with all kinds of risks. Citizens taking up slack from Garda didn't turn out so well for anyone when Brazilian guys tried it on East Wall.


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    #82
    FileNotFound
    Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭FileNotFound


    boombang wrote: »
    I named the seller's user name earlier in the thread. I knew it would be deleted by the mods. I'm not trying to wind the mods up, but I find it so frustrating that there's we need to muzzle ourselves on what seems like reasonable cause for suspicion. Our society has its priorities arseways. Anyway, that's another discussion.

    Apologies to the mods. I probably could have made the point without naming the seller's username.

    In fairness i support the mods on these things - imagine we lost boards.ie as a resource because you'd like to name a potential criminal.. I guess that is the risk they would highlight (same reason they stop talk of anything not by the book/legal)

    It's not like naming them will really matter - what can we do.

    And then again i would love to be able to name and shame them myself.


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