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The officer asked if I'd just been out riding my motorcycle. I hadn't and said so. The officer then told me that another officer in a nearby town needed to talk to me ASAP. I took down the number and called it after verifying that my bike was still in my garage, and wearing its number plate. I got the other town's police dispatcher on the phone and she took down my number and told me that the other officer would call me back soon. Never heard back.
Any ideas why they would do this? The following theory is pure speculation on my part: The police collect and share a database of sport bikes by visual description combined with home addresses and phone numbers. If they lose a bike in a chase, they go through the database and try to get to the owner's house before the owner gets home. If they can't narrow it down to one particular owner, they call owners of similar bikes and see who is home and who is not. Being home means you are automatically not a suspect. This would explain the urgency of the call and the fact that I was never called back.
Anyone else ever have this happen to them?
If my theory is correct, the fishing expedition at 1:30 AM pisses me off. I have a rule that you don't ever call anyone between 9 PM and 9 AM unless it's deemed acceptable beforehand to do so, or it's an emergency. I think it's rude to call people at 1:30 AM out of the blue. I don't plan to lodge any sort of complaint though, I'm sure that would put me on the "never give a warning" list and I can use all the warnings I can get.