Increase in seizures of illegal ebikes

[raleighnut]

Numerous people reported this. I guess you never been anywhere near a socially deprived inner city area. It’s an Internationally known thing I’ve even seen as a theme on drama based in Italy.
You might need to get out a bit more well maybe not if your that naive.

I lived for many years in a socially deprived inner city area, Highfields in Leicester..................Lots of hookers on street corners and people talking about how they wouldn't go out at night if they lived there but in all those years I never had any hassle. Over the years I have tried many different drugs from LSD to Mushrooms, Speed, Cocaine Hashish/Cannabis (I've even had Morphine when I broke my Femur) but don't bother anymore so maybe I'm out of touch (sooner have a bottle of Wine or Single Malt Whisky)
Maybe Leicester is different but it is still Pubs where most of the nefarious activities go on, there are a couple of 'Spoons' in Leicester full of Shoplifters and Drug dealers and the pub opposite where I live is full of 'cokeheads' (I live on a council estate) but they never trouble me.

 

[cyberknight]

I lived for many years in a socially deprived inner city area, Highfields in Leicester..................Lots of hookers on street corners and people talking about how they wouldn't go out at night if they lived there but in all those years I never had any hassle. Over the years I have tried many different drugs from LSD to Mushrooms, Speed, Cocaine Hashish/Cannabis (I've even had Morphine when I broke my Femur) but don't bother anymore so maybe I'm out of touch (sooner have a bottle of Wine or Single Malt Whisky)
Maybe Leicester is different but it is still Pubs where most of the nefarious activities go on, there are a couple of 'Spoons' in Leicester full of Shoplifters and Drug dealers and the pub opposite where I live is full of 'cokeheads' (I live on a council estate) but they never trouble me.

supposedly a dealer according to scuttlebut rumours across the road from us but i have never had any issues from them , then again i have never tried a cigarette let alone anything more interesting .The joys of being boring i suppose.

 

[Drago]

I live on a council estate) but they never trouble me.

For the love of God, don't let Accy find out or he'll suffer a class 1 prolapse of his monocle!

 

[Webbo2]

A quick search shows several instances of drugs being delivered using food delivery as a cover

and not all from the daily fail

Plus there a significant number of takeaways that are a front for money laundering especially those are reluctant accept cards.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Plus there a significant number of takeaways that are a front for money laundering especially those are reluctant accept cards.

Which explains the large number around that do not seem to be all that busy but seem to last when others close down

 

[cyberknight]

Which explains the large number around that do not seem to be all that busy but seem to last when others close down

We have something called sweet retreat which sells fancy ice-cream and I never see anyone in there and it's hardly open yet it's been there years.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When I went over to Canada in the late 1970s I stayed at the farm of my friend's brother-in-law (his sister was a lot older than him)

the brother-in-law was a daytime meber of a local tennis club and took us there a few times

It was a very smart and posh club - entry during the day included access to abotu 12 indoor tennis courts
plus a swimming pool
plus a sauna
plus changing rooms and all that
all very smart and top of the range

and it was quite cheap

One time we went he said to quicklook at the signing in book when we got there - we were confused but had a quick glance
then he said to do the same when we left at about 5 o-clock - i.e. the endof the day time sessions


When we were out he asked what we had noticed
everything seems OK - except that when we go there there was only 2 other blokes signed in and they were the only ones we saw there when we were playing tennis and having a sauna and swimming
but when we left it appeared that there had been quite a few other members that had been there

The theory was that the club was a front for money laundering
if people had been there during the day then they had paid - not much if they were member but it all mounts up - and alot of the people were guests
and that business is all documented and admissable in courts etc
and tax is paid on it
so themoney from it is clean


so - our theory said - on quite days people are signed in that do not exist and the money goes through the book to clean it from whatever it actually came from


so - not a new thing - although that wouldn;t work as well nowadays as the club would be expected to have CCTV on the courts which a curious cop could check

 

[CXRAndy]

so - not a new thing - although that wouldn;t work as well nowadays as the club would be expected to have CCTV on the courts which a curious cop could check

See Somalian Minessota childcare facilities for debunked

 

[raleighnut]

When I went over to Canada in the late 1970s I stayed at the farm of my friend's brother-in-law (his sister was a lot older than him)

the brother-in-law was a daytime meber of a local tennis club and took us there a few times

It was a very smart and posh club - entry during the day included access to abotu 12 indoor tennis courts
plus a swimming pool
plus a sauna
plus changing rooms and all that
all very smart and top of the range

and it was quite cheap

One time we went he said to quicklook at the signing in book when we got there - we were confused but had a quick glance
then he said to do the same when we left at about 5 o-clock - i.e. the endof the day time sessions


When we were out he asked what we had noticed
everything seems OK - except that when we go there there was only 2 other blokes signed in and they were the only ones we saw there when we were playing tennis and having a sauna and swimming
but when we left it appeared that there had been quite a few other members that had been there

The theory was that the club was a front for money laundering
if people had been there during the day then they had paid - not much if they were member but it all mounts up - and alot of the people were guests
and that business is all documented and admissable in courts etc
and tax is paid on it
so themoney from it is clean


so - our theory said - on quite days people are signed in that do not exist and the money goes through the book to clean it from whatever it actually came from


so - not a new thing - although that wouldn;t work as well nowadays as the club would be expected to have CCTV on the courts which a curious cop could check

There was a Golf Course and Fitness Club in Leicester Forest East that was drug related, they had stashes buried around the course in what had been dug as 'bunkers' several tons of Hashish by all accounts along with a few hundredweight of Heroin and Cocaine. What gave rise to suspicion was that nobody ever seemed to be playing golf.

No E-bikes but there were a few electric golf buggies (Oh and a 'backhoe' or two for digging holes)

 

[Drago]

Plus there a significant number of takeaways that are a front for money laundering especially those are reluctant accept cards.

And a large number that are reluctant to accept cards because culturally they like to deal with cash, such as Chinese chippies.

 

[Dogtrousers]

And a large number that are reluctant to accept cards because culturally they like to deal with cash, such as Chinese chippies.

My local Chinese takeaway, which is has been there for years and generally quite busy is cash only. I've no reason to suspect that they are anything other than a legit business.

Of course "legit" is a flexible term and if their preference for cash was related to some unorthodox book keeping practices I wouldn't be particularly surprised.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

My local Chinese takeaway, which is has been there for years and generally quite busy is cash only. I've no reason to suspect that they are anything other than a legit business.

Of course "legit" is a flexible term and if their preference for cash was related to some unorthodox book keeping practices I wouldn't be particularly surprised.

Just taking cash is not necessarily an indication of a problem

The hairdresser that my wife goes to only takes cash
but the owner is married to the manager of the LBS next door who is quite happy to take cards - in fact generally prefers cards to cash

 

[classic33]

"Legal EAPC" at Bradford Interchange. Apparently belongs to one of the Northern staff working there.
There's even a mounting bracket for the number plate visible over the rear wheel.

 

[Mike_P]

"Legal EAPC" at Bradford Interchange. Apparently belongs to one of the Northern staff working there.
There's even a mounting bracket for the number plate visible over the rear wheel.
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But no numberplate so not legal?

 

[Alex321]

But no numberplate so not legal?

If it is a "legal EAPC" then it doesn't need one.