Bike out of state or just someone who wants to stop me looking for it?

[gst]

My bike was stolen last Sunday in San Francisco. My walk home is along 7th and Market so I decided to give the bike thieves at UN Plaza a few flyers that promise a reward for the bike.

Today in the morning (at around 6:30) I get a call from a Kentucky-based number with a caller who asked me if I'm looking for a bike and how the bike looks like. He then told me that he lives "in the mid-west" and that he has that bike and he bought it in SF while he was visiting. When I asked him to identify the bike (with details about the bike that only someone in possession of the bike can know) he said he's not going to identify a stolen bike and hung up.

So this leaves me with two conclusions:

1) My bike is actually in Kentucky. Given the time it takes to drive from SF to Kentucky, the accent of the caller, the number, it looks like a lot of facts do support that case.

2) My bike is still in the Bay Area but someone wants to make me believe it's not so that I stop looking for it at local flea markets.

Which of those two do you think is more likely? Did something similar happen to anyone else here?

[gst]

OTOH I also posted about the stolen bike online. So maybe it's some random person who read my posting and assumed I'd pay upfront to send my bicycle back to California?

[Joshua Bastian]

Seems most likely that it is "OTOH I also posted about the stolen bike online. So maybe it's some random person who read my posting and assumed I'd pay upfront to send my bicycle back to California?"

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