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Police helped me very much when I had two bicycles stolen. They were actually my roommate's but he was pessimistic of getting them back, so I called the police myself.

I had no receipts, just a description, half of one of the bikes in an old photo, and the combination of the lock on one of them. The bikes were stolen unlocked, leaning on the outside of the house.

The small-ish-city policeman seemed to have an idea who to suspect, and found one bike at a pawn shop and the other in the trunk of a car. Used the lock combo to confirm the one, and I forget how we confirmed the other, other than the description and that it was in the possession of the same thieves. Arrested two people and got the bikes back to us a month or two later, with very little work on my part.