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Originally Posted by bandito2
Here's the news story.
http://www.ksla.com/story/30329238/r...after-33-years
and an item about the story.
http://jalopnik.com/man-reunited-wit...ars-1738379908
If the lady had an accident, I wonder how the police did not know that the bike was not properly licensed/registered/insured... unless the laws in GA. would let one ride a bike with that displacement (150cc) without plates or if the police did not check anything like that at the time and just let that slide by. Or maybe they did but just didn't tell you the whole story.
Getting the lady to pay tow & impound fees I'm guessing would be more trouble than what it was worth. If she could convince a judge with a claim that she had bought the bike in good faith then she might skirt the possession of stolen property bit. And after all, it is your property and the tow & impound only care about getting paid for the tow and storage.
Getting a replacement title really shouldn't be a problem. You certainly should be able to prove you are who you say you are and can provide documentation for that. There was no transfer of title so it was and still is legally your bike even though you were not in physical possession of it for about 3 years.
Did you have it insured when it was stolen? I'm guessing not, but that might have been an avenue to seek reimbursement. Nice to think you might be able get the impound fees repaid, but the effort to get it may cost more in time and $$$. IMO, be glad you got the bike back like you did.
Anyway, found this for you:
http://www.dmv.org/sc-south-carolina...lost-title.php
Other owners of your kind of bike might be better able to help you out with your headlight issue, but I'll go take a look anyway.
BTW I didn't think your earlier post was too long.... you should see some of mine. |
Thanks for the links, been working on the bike all day after work had no time to google it, ill read later!
GA and SC have slack laws on 50ccs and most cops cant tell the difference, they had that moped tag in the pic on it and the displacement info on my plates has been tampered with, they scratched it all up randomly and carefully scratched the 1's in front of "150cc" and the 1 from the model "150xt" making it a "50cc" "50xt" which is a model by the same company...clever bastards.
So they probably let it slide, also the one vin was removed, but not underneath, so at the time they probably couldn't find a vin to run it or they just impounded it to further investigate. On the police report it does state "held for investigation" so that makes sense.
All in all I'm glad I got it back, and the lady who was riding it (I facebooked her) doesn't look like a theif, so I probably wont persue charges, even though I really didn't have $400 to shell out on my own stolen property :'c.
Its simply not worth the hassle, and I'm glad i got it back and running.
You're right about the title $15 and I just have to wait for it in the mail, then I guess ill re-register it and get my liscence back (let it expire because I didn't have a need for it) and get tags and be riding legit!
In the mean time I'm fixing her up!
Since you're checking out my thread over in maintence ill spare the details here but I found out what hi beams I need and I need to know what the smaller ones are in the front, they look just like 12v 10w turn signal bulbs but they are used in the front as low beams on this bike?
Since you don't know much about the 150ccs maybe you.could at least recommend me some.bad ass turn signals? I'm liking a pair of led ones on a website for $19.99 plus shipping I might just get those I think they'd look slick.
Thanks for replying to my threads, it feels good to have someone to talk scoots with!