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Re: Attention riders in Norcal! Bike thief in your area!
« Reply #15 on: April 06, 2013, 08:49:28 PM »
Thank you Mutt. I have talked to Pete and he has his eye out. How should I contact you if I want to give you the address the bike was delivered to? Maybe that can help us identify the thief.
Patrick Schoolen
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Re: Attention riders in Norcal! Bike thief in your area!
« Reply #16 on: April 06, 2013, 10:19:28 PM »
I just got back into riding...as you know I am fighting some serious
health issues in respiratory,lung and also issues with COPD and
ENDISM along others..so sorry I did not see this post earlier.


1) This makes us Nor-Cal flatland riders look bad and one bad apple
does this and I talked to OSG and others about this matter and we are
all keeping our eyes out for this bike and person.


2)There are some 24 of us flatlanders in Nor-Cal and I know everyone
who flatland here and OSG pretty much knows everyone too..as he and
I hang out and ride together a lot...so he rode with many of these other
Nor-Cal riders.


3)Richmond is a very rough and also high crime area of the Bay Area
and was known for awhile to be on even grounds with Oakland with the
amount of murders and high crime a year.130-150 murders.It is interesting
that the address goes back to there,as it is obvious the person probably does
not live there,but knows a person or a person they are in league with these
credit card frauds they are doing.It is obvious probably they are using this same
Richmond address as a stash house or one that packages can be delivered
to,that no one would notice anything weird going on,since they do not want
to bother in getting shot or stabbed,if they paid notice to these packages.
a real ghetto or very high crime area would be the perfect cover to have
such packages delivered..with someone watching the house when the one
package arrives..having got the delivery info in tracking numbers and the
delivery date and the two times  in between it will be delivered.


4)It is also a possibility the complete bike was not bought to just turn around
to sell,since flatland is not a real popular sport or activity and especially here
in Nor-Cal,with only 24 or so flatlanders here.This person might be a flatland
enthusiasts and used his friends or partners in credit card scams and fraud
for him to get a bike.The percentage of turn around sales is low,but again it
can not be ruled out,this with the price of the bike and products ordered.


5)Restaurant Waiters,bartenders and any shop employees can take a credit
card and then get the information off of it in numbers,but the CVC numbers
and access # are hard to get off.The other possibility is a scam,which they
used a friends credit card and then reported it stolen and the credit card
company,refunds the money back into the credit card account and all of the
product is still with them.this would explain the access but again people are
pretty savvy at credit card fraud..can get the numbers.


6) It has been reported in the local papers here,of credit card fraud and scam
groups in the Bay Area and a lot are in the Oakland and Richmond areas,which
are the lowest income and well ghettos of the Bay Area.I am not surprised at
all,this one credit fraud or scam was based in Richmond and people are just
very desperate for money or not spending money..as this one person seemed
to see flaws in your credit card system somehow,probably being savvy in the
computers and doing frauds,as he took advantage of the flaws. I would really
want to look at your credit card system now and you can afford another one
like this at $1,000.00.You heard of drifters in the 1920's-1940's and they were
gangs of scam artists and frauders during the great depression and they really
flourished during real bad times...it is not as bad now..but they are out there!


I am no SHERLOCK HOLMES...but these are what  I talked to OSG about and
we agreed that a lot of this is accurate and might be the case of this incident.
We will keep our eyes out for the bike and there are several Nor-Cal flatland
events coming up and I do not think the person will be dumb enough to show
up at these events with the bike,but you never know.
« Last Edit: April 06, 2013, 10:24:20 PM by rideflat43 »

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Re: Attention riders in Norcal! Bike thief in your area!
« Reply #17 on: April 06, 2013, 10:26:06 PM »
You have my number Pat and you called me on several occasions
and PM me if you do not have it still and yeah again I am sorry
this happened to you and all of Nor-Cal in us flatlanders are now
looking out for that bike and person!

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Re: Attention riders in Norcal! Bike thief in your area!
« Reply #18 on: April 09, 2013, 05:11:28 PM »
That REALLY SUCKS Pat!
I'm sorry it happens to you... Hope you find that sucker....

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Re: Attention riders in Norcal! Bike thief in your area!
« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2013, 07:21:10 AM »
KARMA WILL COME BACK ON THE THIEF
THREE TIMES!