Thieving scumkbags, and I don't just mean the thieves

[Polarbear]

My daughters 125 got nicked the other day from outside a friends house. We reported it to the police and I got a phone call this morning -

It's been found, burnt out bastards

But the nice policeman had it recovered and now I have to pay £150 for the privalidge of going and getting back a pile of burnt out bike, or I can pay them and extra £50 for them to scrap it. (and it's £15 per day storage starting tomorrow)

I'm not sure who are the thieves are in this story.

She was only 3rd party, and anyway the excess is more than the bikes worth.

I'm not happy
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[MinhDinh]

Scrap it, cut your losses.
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[Mr Hammers]

To be fair to the polizei, they have to recoup the high costs of oppression somewhere...


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[killa]

Sorry to hear about her bike bud. It’s happened to me as a young lad, couple of 125’s nicked.
Same story, plod getting back handers from the recovery people.

You have the choice, it needn’t be recovered if you don’t want it to be. They sometimes ask this. I said last time this happened. They found it in a field, torched, I said I didn’t want it. A week later they want me to fetch it, it’s incurred charges to.

Tell them to suck your c0ck and don’t call again.
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[Rogerborg]

1) Sorry to hear about the bike. Nob cancer on the scrotes.

2) Tell Plod Plc that you'll see them in court if they think you owe them money. Invite them to bring a contract with your signature on it.
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[Rogerborg]

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[RichieZX6R]

^^

Good idea, should have wired it up to just shock the little fecker!

Cops are no better than the theiving scum, except they are doing it right in front of you! Give them the
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[Hetzer]

Tell them to go and fuck themselves, you signed no contract nor requested recovery and there's not a chance in hell a court would find in their favour. Let them do their worst, which will be the square root of fuck all.
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[Rogerborg]

And now I agree with Hetzer! Congratulations, coppers, you're doing a great job forging a strong, united society.
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[Bofh5]

They tried this with my sons ped...he was still lying in the road and the coppers giving me a price list of having his bike recovered

My latest run in with the police hasn't improved my opinion of them...
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Always, always tell them you will collect the bike yourself.
Doesn't mean they won't get it recovered anyway (seen this - but at least there's a chance of not paying if they do).

AS FAR AS I KNOW - you can just not pay it and they don't make a big thing of coming after you. Probably worth a call to explain you don't want the bike back.

I was at the scene of an accident (car hit scooter rider) and mentioned to the police that the scooter rider had AA. They weren't interested because it meant they would have to be waiting around for an unreliable breakdown service, as opposed to their 'official' ones which would be there pretty promptly.

Someone on here's bike got nicked while they were in the Ambulance on the way to the Hospital when they police didn't use their official recovery people.

Remember that £150 is paying for someone to be on call any time of day or night - like motorway services, you're paying mostly not for the service, but for the availability of the service 24/7.

[Marmalade]

Before I start, I am no great fan of the money chasing old bill, but..

The plod don't get the cash, it's the recovery operator who is charging it.

I worked doing police jobs for a long time and there is no way on earth the bloke that owned the company was giving anyone a backhander, tight fkr.

Trucks cost in the region of £60-80k and may last 3/5 years, thats a lot of cash to make just paying for a truck without drivers wages, 24hr control room staff, storage facilities, security etc etc.

What would people suggest, have a copper sat waiting for several hours while you find someone with a van at 3am who will go pick up whats left of your bike for you and store it, well, outside the flat it was stolen from or have the plods trained to do an estimate of repair on every vehicle that gets found so they can assess whether to leave it there or get it recovered?

It's simple, any vehicle gets found it get recovered, simple system that has it's faults.

If you had a busa found 20 miles away with lock damage and it was recovered and back almost intact you'd be chuffed, if your £500 rat gets burned down the local park and recovered the old bill are cunts.
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[Polarbear]

As much as I hate to defend them, that isn't the police's fault, it's the courts who let off muggers, riff raff and scum with a slap on the wrist, and then send down bikers for speeding.
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[Poseidon]

Since it was the thieves who originally took the bike and dumped it, thereby incurring the recovery charge... Surely the OP can tell the plod to bill the thieves once they catch them. It's win win all round!

I genuinely cannot see any flaw in my logic!
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[keggyhander]

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Awww, poor you.

But then; like, once I went in to the M&S and they didn't have the Chicken and Bacon club... frankly don't know why they didn't just block of the entrance to the services!

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