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?