Nice to see the guy get his bike back, but BS penalty for the criminal

[rastuscat]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4540515/Quad-biker-finds-his-stolen-bike-on-Trade-Me

$400 for receiving a stolen vehicle? You get fined $400 for riding a bike with a car licence, where's the deterrent for thieves?

Harumph.

[scumdog]

There's already a thread on KB about this..

[breakaway]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4540515/Quad-biker-finds-his-stolen-bike-on-Trade-Me

$400 for receiving a stolen vehicle? You get fined $400 for riding a bike with a car licence, where's the deterrent for thieves?

Harumph.

$150 now actually, but fair point.

You can straight up kill someone and get a few years in prison, so $400 for 'receiving stolen property' is pretty good.

[cbfb]

Yep there is a thread about this already but you're dead right, worth posting twice it's so fucking stupid.

It costs me $400 a year to legally register my own bike so at that price I might as well just risk it and go fucking nick one.

:Police::weird: