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In this post by SPD's blogger Jonah Spangenthal-Lee, we learn several interesting things. We learn that pawn shops must use an online system—LeadsOnline—when dealing with used bikes, but this system is easily confused and abused by people who provide it with wrong information. We learn that there are people in Seattle who can afford to pay $4,000 for a bike and, at the same time, live in Belltown. We also learn that the habits and activities of convicted felons hardly escape the radar of the police department (they might be out of prison, no longer on parole, but they never leave the system), and, finally, that a bike chop shop just might be as seedy, as even dangerous, as a car chop shop. Because bikes are green and cars are not, one would expect a bike chop shop to be a more friendly and salubrious criminal environment.