On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:05 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess it's different in Canada, in most places in the US if the > property remains unclaimed after a period, (either common law or > statutory), of time has elapsed they sell the stuff at auction with > either city or department getting the proceeds. It's a win, win, as far > as the police department is concerned. It seems entirely too venal for > the Canadian authorities to not have the same law.
We do have such a law, and the cops have one or two auctions a year. But normally they have like a couple hundred bikes in these auctions, with appropriate storage facilities for that many bikes. However, as you said, they have to keep them available for reclamation for a period of time until they can be auctioned, and they don't have the facilites for over three thousand bikes to be stored. They're having to rent storage areas for that purpose, and I doubt that they'll make as much from these auctions as they pay out for warehousing... It's all quite cumbersome. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
