Maybe they could just rent from Igor... -p
frank theriault wrote: > 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 > -- 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.
