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It is usually the police which bring you back your stolen goods, if they find them, that is. However, Donald Pyper, a 32 year-old man from Edinbrough, Scotland, who had his Harley Davidson stolen from a parking lot outside his house was able to recover it with the help of Facebook and Twitter.
Before reporting the incident to the police, Donald posted several pictures of his grey bike on Twitter and Facebook, and before long, people began reporting sightings in the Silverknowes area of Edinbrough. He was then able to track it down and recover it successfully.
Donald went on to say “People kept reporting sightings of the bike around the same areas, so I worked out where it was likely they would be. I stood at the junction of West Shaw Road and Marine Drive, and before long I saw them go past [. . .] There were three people on the bike, completely overloading it. What made it worse was that one of them was a very young boy, in his early teens at best. Not one of them was wearing a helmet [. . .] Luckily I had an idea where they were going, having found a hiding place nearby earlier that day. Sure enough, the bike had been dumped there when I arrived."
Story via visordown.com
Donald went on to say “People kept reporting sightings of the bike around the same areas, so I worked out where it was likely they would be. I stood at the junction of West Shaw Road and Marine Drive, and before long I saw them go past [. . .] There were three people on the bike, completely overloading it. What made it worse was that one of them was a very young boy, in his early teens at best. Not one of them was wearing a helmet [. . .] Luckily I had an idea where they were going, having found a hiding place nearby earlier that day. Sure enough, the bike had been dumped there when I arrived."
Story via visordown.com
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