From bikeportland.org's "Bike Thief Foiled By Technology, Community"
I cannot express how much I love this story, and how stoked I am that the SBR plug-in that I wrote for BikePortland.org nailed this idiot.James Selman ... listed his one-of-a-kind, custom black Seven Cycles Tsunami singlespeed (with estimated value of $4,600) on June 29th.
According to Selman, someone threw a baseball-sized rock through the glass door of his office in Northwest Portland. The smash-and-grabbers grabbed his Apple laptop and rode off on his bike.
Selman immediately listed the bike on BikePortland. Then, on July 10th he got an email from a guy named Joe in Northeast Portland. It read, “Your bike is in front of my apartment building, in the possession of a skeezy dude. I have called police…”
According to Selman, Joe had heard the suspect bragging about the bike a week prior (must have been right after he stole it). This time, when Joe saw the bike, he pulled out his iPhone and checked our listings. Selman’s detailed description was an exact match. “So, while he [Joe] stalled the guy,” Selman told us, “he emailed me and called the cops.”
This, coming right on the heels of this news about the guy who was ripping off bikes in the Pearl district being sentenced for three charges make it a pretty good week for the good guys.
Yaaaay!
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