Only in Canada......
Where is Gypsy? Perhaps her bike is there!
Canadian police have caught the man believed to be the world's most prolific bike thief, after they recovered 2,865 stolen bicycles from the owner of a Toronto bike shop.
Ever since Igor Kenk was arrested last month, some 15,000 Torontonians have visited the police station garage where his swag was taken, hoping to pick out their own bikes among the vast collection. A surprisingly large number of them have been lucky: Toronto police told the Guardian yesterday that so far about 500 people had been reunited with their bicycles.
Kenk, 49, who owned a crammed shop called the Bicycle Clinic, is currently out on CAN$275,000 bail (£142,000), awaiting trial in September on 58 charges of theft, attempted theft, possession of stolen goods and possession of burglary tools.
Kenk was arrested on July 18, when Toronto police, noticing that bike theft had spiked sharply in June, planted bicycles on the streets and watched to see who stole them. As plain clothes officers hid in wait, Kenk and another man walked past. Kenk seemed to tell his companion to cut the locks on two bikes, which he did, before the pair attempted to pedal away.
When police raided the Bicycle Clinic, the shop was so jam-packed that the fire service had to remove the upper-floor windows and lower the bikes out by rope. Later, 200 more bikes were seized in Kenk's home, along with large quantities of drugs, in a smart neighbourhood in Toronto. Ten landlords around the city also reported that they had rented garages to Kenk, which were chock-full of bikes.
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ya! I's da bye from the bay. i sailed away many moons ago! And had to pass through port hawkesbury to get there too. Good to meet you.
Cheers
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Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
thats a lot of bikes...is he getting a high from it?
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Glace bay bye! yer kiddin me, I'm from Port Hawkesbury, right off the causeway. :)
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I am also from N.S I am from glace bay, cape breton. Wow! I left about 25 years ago. Lived in halifax for a few years and been here in vancouver for the past 20. Haven't looked back since I left. But I sure do miss me some really down home friendly people. What part are you from?
I am always excited to go to sleep! In anticipation of the new experience I will find awaiting me.
Tigasin.. LOL funny stuff.
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Better check..There was a rumour that a Polar Bear was seen pedalling off on your trike..
Nah, I'm from Nova Scotia, unless he could bike 600 kms then my bikes fine. :P
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Where would he store them ?
lol.. im sure there was drama when they were re-united with their precious bikes.....
if he was American he would have stolen gas guzzling SUVs.
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