I am still trying to figure out who is fencing the bikes stolen by the homeless. Who, in their right mind is purchasing the bike at all? There are massive mountains of cycles in various stages of decomposition in the junkie camps, and what sort of Humpty Dumpty Franken ride is getting paid for? I can see some cash out of the electro-bikes, as they get chopped into pedicab.
I had a couple of bike cadavers left outside my house. I tried to post them to Freecycle and got no response. Left them sitting upright in the parking strip for weeks, and nothing. Put a $10 sign to sell, and they did not last the afternoon. Mayhap, these converters and other “scrap” are being fenced to backyard refiners who smelt them? Or are the bikes and other metals finding homes in backhaul containers for CCP to gather rare earth matter to sell back to industry. That would not surprise me, nor would there be traffic of platinum parts headed south to be dealt with. If they can get meth and coke over the border northbound, converters go south? Clay inter urinas et faeces nascimur > On Jan 7, 2021, at 12:56 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Same thing around here, as well as for scrap copper and AC condensers. They > want a driver’s license, they take your picture and get a thumbprint. > > I had a spare set of aluminum wheels for one of the Focii, as the youngest > had bought some aftermarket wheels for his. I ended up scrapping them as they > had minimal street value. No problem doing it, but there’s no question they > would have been able to track me down after the fact had they needed to. > > -D _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
