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Quais
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can you lookup if a bike is stolen?
#6752032 - 04/05/07 07:55 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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A friend wants to buy a bike from somebody that may be stolen. Say he did buy the bike, and it was stolen from a bike store. Could the cops lookup the serial number on the very bottom center of the bike frame? I know he could scrape it off, but he wants to know if they can run that number. It's engraved in the the metal.
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: Quais]
#6752353 - 04/05/07 09:15 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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If they wanted to and the store knew the serial number of the stolen bike then they sure could.
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: Psiclone]
#6752760 - 04/05/07 11:16 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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http://juststolen.net/
You can also go to the copshop and have them look it up in the NCIC database. If the number comes up stolen they will want you to make a report and ask you quite a few questions.
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: Quais]
#6753746 - 04/06/07 10:40 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Here's an idea! Tell your friend to buy a bike like everybody else instead of ripping off small business owners trying to feed their children.
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: PopTop]
#6754931 - 04/06/07 04:36 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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well do u think they would have any reason at all to go after him about it
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: WhiteTrash]
#6754934 - 04/06/07 04:37 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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ya know what i mean, like there probably never gonna run the serial or be suspicous about it ever
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: WhiteTrash]
#6754940 - 04/06/07 04:39 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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and yea if it was from a store they keep all the records with serials on all the bikes so they would of gave it to the police in with the report, so yea he could just scrape it off, could of got scrapped anywhere also from riding it. i doubt anything will happen with it
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: WhiteTrash]
#6756409 - 04/07/07 12:55 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Are you fuckin retarted? If they see a scratched out serial # (thats indented in the frame) the same goddamn color as the one missing(probably have a picture) your gonna get grand theft bicycle. If I go out and buy a pistol, and scratch out the serial #'s,they find it its considered stolen untill they find out otherwise. Same with x-boxes/playstations anything with a serial #. When I was a kid a cop drove by, seen my buddy driving around a rc car, stopped and put him in cuffs, had a book full of pictures of stolen shit and it was in it(he baught the car from a buddy), there gonna see it if your riding it
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: WhiteTrash]
#6757033 - 04/07/07 08:01 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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They have a chemical they can put on a scratched out serial number that will make it re-appear. The reason is that the metal is compressed where the die struck, and the chemical makes it stand out. They use it on guns but I suppose it could be done to a bike too.
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: PopTop]
#6757189 - 04/07/07 09:15 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Dunno I have a Diamondback and I have absolutely no serials on my bike except where the stickers were applied. Then again my bike is 2 years old. Just saying not all bikes have serials indented into there metal frames. But If hes worried about it, he shouldnt buy it, because you could never know what may happen down the road.
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: Shepx83]
#6757928 - 04/07/07 01:52 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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why the fuck would they target him though? out of all the millions of bikes out there.................
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Re: can you lookup if a bike is stolen? [Re: WhiteTrash]
#6761363 - 04/08/07 02:04 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
WhiteTrash said: why the fuck would they target him though? out of all the millions of bikes out there.................
Here say or if someone sees it and says hey that bike use to be mine. Think there just being cautious and checking there strings. How does anyone else get caught with a stolen bike? lol
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