A vigilante group "Bike · Batman" who keeps track of the stolen bicycle and reunites with the owner?


BySaim

In the US / Seattle, 1561 bicycle thefts were reported in 2015,Doubled the number of damage in 5 yearsIt is reported that it is. Although stolen bicycles are sometimes sold at classified-type community sites, for example, "Bike · BatmanA man called "tracing the burglary on-line and regaining it back to its owner" is carried out.

Meet 'Bike Batman': Seattle's vigilante reuniting stolen bikes with their owners | US news | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/15/bike-batman-seattle-theft-vigilante-anonymous

A married 30-year-old man working as an engineer in Seattle has been conducting a vigilant group activity called "bike · batman". The purpose of the bike · Batman is to "reunite the stolen bicycle with the owner", continuing these activities besides the main job, successfully returning 22 theft bicycles to the owner so far It is said that. The news site The Guardian said that he interviewed Motorbike Batman for a telephone interview and had the details of the activity revealed on condition of "anonymity".

Below is bike · Batman himself. I have not revealed his real name considering the safety aspect, but he said that he accepts sunglasses attached photos.


It was around the spring of 2015 that Biket · Batman became the vigilante group for the first time. Community site ·CraigslistAs I was watching the bicycle that was on sale at the bicycle registration service ·Bike IndexI heard that the feature matches with the vehicle that the theft report was issued at.

Bike · Batman decided to take back the bicycle and attempted to contact with the thief as a guest. Bike Batman, who attached a promised purchase, told the criminal who brought the theft car, "There are two options for you, either wait for police arrival or leave the bicycle and leave" He said that he did. It was a bike · Batman who succeeded in regaining the bicycle for the first time, but my heart pulsed with my fingers, and I do not know why I did such a thing by danger.

However, bike · Batman who found that it is possible to regain the theft bicycle sold on-line, then began full-fledged activities as a vigilante group and began to be called "motorbike · batman". I want to restore the reputation of Seattle which is now increasing the number of bicycle theft cases.

ByRamanathan Kathiresan

Up to now, bike · Batman cooperated with the police in the form of an undercover investigation, and more than half of the thieves of 22 bicycles who regained have been arrested. In some cases it was not mere bicycle theft, but it turned out to be a criminal casualties, which also contributed to the arrest of more vicious criminals.

Brian Hans, co-founder of the Bike Index, said, "Bike Batman proves our theory that" the most likely possibility of discovering a bicycle theft is the community, not the police, " . While Seattle police Patrick Misho's detective said, "I can not specifically comment on bike · Batman", "If you notice a stolen bicycle on the Internet, it is not possible for the police to accompany the criminal It is possible. " In addition, although Misho detective is positive about a mechanism to search for a stolen bicycle online like Bike Index, when I find a stolen bicycle, I urge you to notify the police without risking it.

Although motorcycle · Batman continues activities that may be dangerous without charge, it does not make any impossibility, and he always places top priority on "own safety". Bike · Batman has a privileged body of about 193 cm tall and may be somewhat advantageous even when the criminal appealed to violence, but he himself said "I intend to hit someone to fight crime is I do not say that I just told people, "This is not yours."

By the way, bicycle theft is a familiar topic in Japan, the National Police Agency issuedCrime statistical data for January to December Heisei 20According to "Bicycle theft", there are 292,221 cases of recognition. The number of cleared cases was 15,320, and the cleared rate was 5.2%.

There are not many cases that celebrities have become victims, and in 2005 the late · Kiyoshiro Imono is a favorite car ·Orange(1.6 million yen) was stolen and it was found that it was left on the street of Shinjuku three days later.

Also, in 2013, Mr. Yusuke Iseya also has mountain bike (about 200,000 yen) stolen. At this time, Mr. Iseya detailed the characteristics of the bicycle stolen on Twitter in detail.


Whether it was worthwhile or because it was news that the theft was encountered, the bicycle has been found safely.

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