I have an interesting little story, back in the late 90s I bought an ATV out of newspaper. And of course I was concerned whether or not it was stolen ... I called the police with the name make and serial number but they did not seem to be concerned at all and brushed off my inquiries....
So I bought the ATV and wrote down the drivers license number of a man I bought it from. Well about two weeks later a squad car showed up outside my house with the male and female RCMP officers .......... well for about 45 minutes they ran serial numbers on the ATV and it did not come up stolen...... but for some reason the female officer was extremely irate and claimed she could take the ATV as stolen property even though there was no evidence to prove it.......
Well about two weeks later , I got a phone call telling me that I was in possession of stolen property and that I had to immediately turn it over to the RCMP........... well they showed up with a flatbed truck and I asked the female officer if she could show me some official RCMP documentation to the fact that I was in possession of stolen property.... simply because I know they ran the numbers and nothing came up........... this RCMP officer became extremely agitated and aggressive and told me she did not have to give me nothing, show me nothing or proved nothing to me...........
Well I believe there was something extremely wrong.... and went to talk to a lawyer why I had not received file number. And some sort of RCMP paperwork.
About two months went by, and I started to write letters to an RCMP staff Sgt.......... I wrote three or four letters and never received a reply. And figured that my complaints were falling on deaf ears.
About a month later there was a knocking at my door, there stood the female RCMP officer in plain clothes with a flatbed truck with my Quad on the back....... it had four brand-new rims on it, a new back rack, someone had torn apart the left front axle......... and the winch had been destroyed........................ well you can, imagine my surprise............ I took the machine back then I talked to a lawyer and wrote another letter to the staff Sgt. About the winch not working. The RCMP officer told me to take it down to the bike shop and have it repaired at the expense of the female RCMP.................. the lawyer told me that I could have not accepted quad back and file some sort of lawsuit against the RCMP and could have received a brand-new quad....... but he also warned me that the RCMP are a vindictive bunch and that I would probably have been subtly harassed for years because of it.
I often wonder, what really happened there. And what happened to that overly aggressive perhaps criminal RCMP officer.
