Here's one. I knew this guy back in the early 80s. Let's call him Jim. Well, he really wanted this high-powered bike, but he knew that he couldn't ever afford it. So what he did was to take drives to London and scout it for a few days until you found that particular model parked outside a house. He goes back that night with a sledge slide hammer, pulls the lock and steals a bike. He gets it home, puts it in his garage and completely strips it so that the only thing left is the frame and the bottom of the engine, which he drags into the weeds at the bottom of his garden. Then he pours fuel over it and burns it a bit. A few weeks pass and the weeds have started to grow over it. It's at this point, he calls the cops and reports someone has dumped a bike frame in his garden. The cops show up and he explains that he had got back from being away and found it. The cop takes the frame and note down his name and address. A few days later, the cops call him and say that the bike had been stolen from London a month or so ago and that the insurance company had classed the bike off as a write off and he told the cops to dispose of it. Now, because the frame was found in his garden and the insurance company didn't want it, the cops were duty bound to ask him if he had wanted to keep it or if they should throw it out. So he tells them that he always wanted to build a bike. He gets the frame back from them, repaints it and then puts it all back together and re-registered it as a stolen and recovered vehicle.