Since just about everything is sold online these days, why not sell stolen motorcycles on the virtual shelf too, right?
At least that’s the thought that could have popped up in one motorcycle thief’s head. The culprit was caught recently in Penang trying to sell bikes on Facebook.
Police caught the guy, in his 30s, completing a sales transaction at a petrol station in Jalan Burman, Northeast district police chief ACP Mior Farid Alathrash Wahid told the Malay Mail Online‘s Opalyn Mok.
“He was selling the motorcycles at cheap prices, as low as RM350 each. We received a public tip-off that there will be a transaction that day, so a team of police personnel ambushed him and arrested the suspect when the transaction was ongoing,” he told the portal,
Mior said the man had stolen at least 17 bikes, all of which were being advertised for sale on social networking sites.
So how did he justify those low prices? He just told potential buyers that owners of these bikes could not pay up and that the vehicles were seized.
Okay.
