Meets a dude walking in the hood to sell him a ATV that's waiting on mama n em to bring money. Dude sees a easy target and drives away. Cops fault?
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A guy I work with had this almost exact thing happen to his brother in Houston. His brother met them in a sketchy area, the guy showed up in Army fatigues so his brother having experience with military trusted the guy to test ride it, and bam... Almost exactly the same.
His brother contacted several bike clubs and organizations throughout Texas and they ended up watching different forums and Craigslist and ended up getting the four wheeler back about a month later!!! So, just an idea for you to proceed forward. Having been in LE for a LONG time, I can tell you recovery by LE itself is very low... but once you add in factors like angry bikers who detest thieves, your chances go up. Good luck man.
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Originally posted by GMGIRL View PostA guy I work with had this almost exact thing happen to his brother in Houston. His brother met them in a sketchy area, the guy showed up in Army fatigues so his brother having experience with military trusted the guy to test ride it, and bam... Almost exactly the same.
His brother contacted several bike clubs and organizations throughout Texas and they ended up watching different forums and Craigslist and ended up getting the four wheeler back about a month later!!! So, just an idea for you to proceed forward. Having been in LE for a LONG time, I can tell you recovery by LE itself is very low... but once you add in factors like angry bikers who detest thieves, your chances go up. Good luck man.
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Originally posted by GMGIRL View PostIt took about a month for the thieves to relist it on another bike sight, and then the bikers and LE set them up for "the buy", so don't give up. I think they ended up recovering it out by Austin or somewhere west. I really hope you find it!
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Wow! What a horrible situation. I'm sorry for your loss, brother. I hate thieves so much! If I ever have to sell anything with someone I do not know, I always bring at least one of my brothers with me just in case something bad happens. My brother in law's cousin was robbed by gunpoint using that app to sell his xbox one and he's just a kid. The guy pretended to go to his car to get the cash and pulled out a gun, in broad daylight and made off with the console. Even though its a shot in the dark, I hope you get it back and I hope this POS gets caught! Can't trust anyone these days man and that's a shame.
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Originally posted by hwy84 View PostOp hope you learned a few lessons here.
1 Cops have like a 4% recovery rate on ATV's, don't expect much.
I'd be willing to bet the low recovery rate is due to lack of VIN info. I've taken a few a stolen atv reports and not everyone had titles or vins. I've also recovered a few that people found for sale later.
I bet there is 6 atvs in our storage lot that an owner can't be located. It's the same for guns. Recovered 4 guns from a dope house a week ago. ONE was reported stolen out of Louisiana in 13'
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