Anyone missing a bike?

"Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian & Borders
police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they gave it to
me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the next year then
we have to give it back.

So, If anyone is missing a Ridgeback ladies bike, I may have it.

Presumably because they either don't want it or as yet haven't been to the
garage/shed/outhouse etc to realise that it is missing.

Dave

Dave said:

"Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Quoted message said:

My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian & Borders
police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they gave it to
me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the next year then
we have to give it back.

Quoted message said:

So, If anyone is missing a Ridgeback ladies bike, I may have it.

Presumably because they either don't want it or as yet haven't been to the
garage/shed/outhouse etc to realise that it is missing...

....or they didn't bother to report it missing as they didn't think
they'd get it back

....or they did report it and nobody managed to link the report to the
recovered bike

Rob

On 17/03/2008 13:43, Mark said,

Quoted message said:

My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian & Borders
police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they gave it to
me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the next year then
we have to give it back.

Are you sure that's right? It always used to be that if something
wasn't claimed within six months, it's yours. It sounds like your
parents are being used as a storage facility in case anyone claims it
within a year!

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

Mark said:

My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian & Borders
police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they gave it to
me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the next year then
we have to give it back.

So, If anyone is missing a Ridgeback ladies bike, I may have it.

I acquired a mountain bike that way. Some chavs were throwing a bike
around in the allotments behind my house. They ran off and left it. I
recovered it; it still had a (cheap) cable lock around the back wheel -
that's why they were amusing themselves throwing it around rather than
riding it. I rang the police, gave them description of bike. No, don't
bring it to the Station, they said. I also made enquiries locally -
they couldn't have carried it far, but no luck. Rang police a few weeks
later - no, had not been reported stolen. It was in my garage for six
months. I fixed it up a bit; new chain and replaced bent handlebars and
brake leaver - and cut through the lock of course. I took it off to
France and left it at my place there to use as a run-around. I was
always nervous of riding it around locally in case one day someone
shouted "Oi! That’s my bike".

Paul Boyd said:

On 17/03/2008 13:43, Mark said,

Quoted message said:

My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian &
Borders police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they
gave it to me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the
next year then we have to give it back.

Are you sure that's right? It always used to be that if something
wasn't claimed within six months, it's yours. It sounds like your
parents are being used as a storage facility in case anyone claims it
within a year!

That's what the man behind the desk said, he even wrote it down and got
my dad to sign it to show he understood.

--
Cheers,

Mark Pearson

Me too. I have a three bikes aquired in the same way, left at the space where we recycle .

Trek 7100EX which is too big for me but had a good rack and mudguards
Specialized Hardrock sport which is perfect
and
Ridgeback MX 25 which had no seat or rear mech. Now fixed up and used to trash in Richmond Park by my grandson.

I reported all three to the police who weren't very interested, went back and reminded them 6 months later and was told they are now mine so I got that in writing and added them to the insurance. I'm still waiting for the "Oi! that's mine" moment though.

AND my wife says I can't rescue any more bikes.

quote='Kevin Dublin'Mark said:

My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian & Borders
police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they gave it to
me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the next year then
we have to give it back.

So, If anyone is missing a Ridgeback ladies bike, I may have it.

I acquired a mountain bike that way. Some chavs were throwing a bike
around in the allotments behind my house. They ran off and left it. I
recovered it; it still had a (cheap) cable lock around the back wheel -
that's why they were amusing themselves throwing it around rather than
riding it. I rang the police, gave them description of bike. No, don't
bring it to the Station, they said. I also made enquiries locally -
they couldn't have carried it far, but no luck. Rang police a few weeks
later - no, had not been reported stolen. It was in my garage for six
months. I fixed it up a bit; new chain and replaced bent handlebars and
brake leaver - and cut through the lock of course. I took it off to
France and left it at my place there to use as a run-around. I was
always nervous of riding it around locally in case one day someone
shouted "Oi! That’s my bike".[/QUOTE]

Mark said:

Paul Boyd said:

On 17/03/2008 13:43, Mark said,

Quoted message said:

My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian &
Borders police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they
gave it to me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the
next year then we have to give it back.

Quoted message said:

Are you sure that's right?  It always used to be that if something
wasn't claimed within six months, it's yours.  It sounds like your
parents are being used as a storage facility in case anyone claims it
within a year!

That's what the man behind the desk said, he even wrote it down and got
my dad to sign it to show he understood.

--
Cheers,

Mark Pearson

Anyone handed in a tenner?

Some low-life scrote nicked my Peugeot Savoirre- the bike that took me
over the Pyrenees the first time- and Norwich police let me look at
their reclaimed bikes in the cavernous cellar of the cop shop- there
were literally hundreds of bikes down there.

the Met sell theirs off at a bethnal green auction.

"permajeo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Me too. I have a three bikes aquired in the same way, left at the space
where we recycle .

Pun very much intended, I take it!

Kevin Dublin said:

I was always nervous of riding it around
locally in case one day someone shouted "Oi! That’s my bike".

I've known quite a few people who have expensive bikes have someone shout
"Oi! That's my bike" when it blatantly isn't. Usually chavs hoping you'll
stop so they can belt you one and nick your bike...

"Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian & Borders
police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they gave it to
me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the next year then
we have to give it back.

INAL, but I'm pretty sure that the true owner always has the right to claim
it back from you. No matter what the police may say.

OG said:

"Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian & Borders
police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they gave it to
me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the next year then
we have to give it back.

INAL, but I'm pretty sure that the true owner always has the right to claim
it back from you. No matter what the police may say.

I think that there are time limitations, e.g. someone squatting in a
house for 12? years has the right to keep it. If it is auctioned at
certain places in Europe, the original owner looses all rights. But then
there are still cases when stuff stolen by the Nazis[1] is returned to
the families of the original owners.

[1] Does this trigger Godwins Law?

"Martin Dann" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

OG said:

"Mark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian & Borders
police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they gave it to
me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the next year then
we have to give it back.

INAL, but I'm pretty sure that the true owner always has the right to
claim it back from you. No matter what the police may say.

I think that there are time limitations, e.g. someone squatting in a house
for 12? years has the right to keep it. If it is auctioned at certain
places in Europe, the original owner looses all rights. But then there are
still cases when stuff stolen by the Nazis[1] is returned to the families
of the original owners.

Quoted message said:

[1] Does this trigger Godwins Law?

Heh heh.

However, I think adverse possession only applies to land (and buildings on
it). Land (or Real Property) is different to Personal Property, and I'm not
sure that title to personal property can ever be lawfully 'lost' in this
way.

spindrift said:

Mark said:

Paul Boyd said:

On 17/03/2008 13:43, Mark said,
> My parents found a bike a while ago and handed it into Lothian &
> Borders police. They have now got it back as it was unclaimed so they
> gave it to me. We get to keep it but if anyone claims it within the
> next year then we have to give it back.

Quoted message said:

Are you sure that's right?  It always used to be that if something
wasn't claimed within six months, it's yours.  It sounds like your
parents are being used as a storage facility in case anyone claims it
within a year!

That's what the man behind the desk said, he even wrote it down and got
my dad to sign it to show he understood.

--
Cheers,

Mark Pearson

Anyone handed in a tenner?

Some low-life scrote nicked my Peugeot Savoirre- the bike that took me
over the Pyrenees the first time- and Norwich police let me look at
their reclaimed bikes in the cavernous cellar of the cop shop- there
were literally hundreds of bikes down there.

I had a similar experience although it was only a small room and had
about 20 BSOs in it. The officer was inviting me to just take one.
I didn't.

M.