When MPD recovers a bicycle and it has a registration decal on it, they will look up the owner's name and phone number in the registration records and try to contact them. Sometimes a bike owner gets a call before they even realize their bicycle was stolen. Sometimes they get a call a year or two later and are amazed, and thankful, that the bike was recovered. If a bike at the auction has a registration decal on it, MPD probably could not locate that individual. People move around within Madison quite a bit and rarely contact us with a change of address for bicycle registrations. When students leave Madison, there are many bikes just abandoned, they don't need/want it anymore. We would much rather get a recovered bicycle back to it's owner than have to store it and auction it.
Arthur Ross Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/24/02 11:24AM >>> I'm always amazed at how many of these bikes have registration stickers on them. Do the previous owners just not care about recovering the bike or is the MPD lax in locating these people or unable to? Frank Maiale In a message dated 09/24/2002 11:12:35 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The Madison Police Dept is holding one of their semi-annual bike (and other > recovered property) auction this Sat, Sept 28. Great chance to pick up a > commuter bike or even parts. Here's the announcement from MPD: _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
