From GoodNewsNetwork.org
An avid cyclist used his community bike theft prevention tool, Facebook, a VPN, and a bottomless reservoir of determination to dismantle one of the most prolific bicycle thievery schemes in American history.
California, USA, 2020: riots and looting, a looming presidential election, a pandemic still raging on into the new Delta variant, and Mr. Brian Hance is urgently attempting to get the police to investigate what he says is an organized international bicycle smuggling ring depriving hundreds of Americans of their high-end bikes.
As one might imagine, the police in counties like Sonoma, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz didn’t listen to him. “We’re not Interpol” they would say.
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