Stolen Vehicle Database

Don't know if anyones seen this yet but I saw it on another forum I visit;

http://stolenvehicledatabase.org/

Was launched yesterday with the aim of getting to be the best place to report, and hopefully recover, stolen bikes. The site wants to lower the number of bike thefts through "education and intel"

Anyway I just thought it would be ideal to mention this

A bit like this HERE

Id never heard of either. The more places its visible the better though surely

[jonny.boyd]

Wow, so many bikes getting stolen from London area!

randomly clicked one and his bike was on streetview at the location it was stolen from, doh!

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by beabert

randomly clicked one and his bike was on streetview at the location it was stolen from, doh!

You REALLY think that bike thieves trawl Streetview looking for bikes, considering Streetview is now, what, 2 years out of date?

Much easier to just drive around, see a bike, grab it, I would have thought...

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by B1k3R

A bit like this HERE

Scum-site that...

Made to look like something its not (ie I see no ACTUAL connection with the Police).

AND

Its up for sale.

Money grabber at the expense of his "content" coming from the misery of other.

Am I missing something? How is reporting your stolen bike on this site going to help get it recovered/found?

[tigersaw]

Originally Posted by Stig

Am I missing something? How is reporting your stolen bike on this site going to help get it recovered/found?

Because we all believed theives stripped the bikes down and flogged the parts on ebay etc, but these sites must think they ride around on them with the original plate, or offer them for sale without disguising their identity.

(It may help if you find one in a bush somewhere, but you'd call the 5-0 anyway then)

So if someone offers you a motorcycle to buy, you can then go on these websites to check if it has been stolen or not? I thought there was already a database for that. HPI? Please do excuse my thickness, just not grasping what the sites are going to achieve. If I were want to know for sure if a bike I was potentially interested in, was stolen, I would just do a HPI check which is far more likely to be correct would it not?