Bike stolen in Columbus, OH, found on Craigslist in Austin, TX.

jobycom

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Sat Sep-13-08 08:39 AM
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Bike stolen in Columbus, OH, found on Craigslist in Austin, TX.

I wonder if this is an organized ring or if the bike just had an interesting journey.

http://austin.craigslist.org/bik/838333798.html

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Tuesday Afternoon

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Sat Sep-13-08 08:45 AM
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1. one = interesting journey

more than one = organized ring.

:hi: :donut:

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jobycom

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Sat Sep-13-08 09:26 AM
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2. The thing is, there are always a lot of bikes on CL here.

Some of them just scream STOLEN. Some guy posted four bikes the other night, for $30 each, and said they had to be sold by 8 that evening. The bikes looked random, not like what a family or individual would acquire. And some people are so vague in their info you can tell they don't know anything about the bike they are selling.

Austin is a big bike town, so it would be a smart place to show up with a UHaul full of stolen bikes for sale, and probably a bad place to sell a bike you had stolen from within Austin itself. So the ring makes sense. And cops here and elsewhere have busted a couple of bike theft rings.

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