星期三 [ 2010-1-13 11:19:53 | watches1013 ]   At auction, unclaimed loot goes to the highest bid Bag of watches and gold rings? $250. Box of vintage Playboy magazines? $25. Clearing out unclaimed property from Buffalo Police Headquarters and making a little coin for the City of Buffalo? Priceless. Hundreds of bidders packed the indoor parking garage at Buffalo Police Headquarters Saturday for the city's first property auction in three years. Professional auctioneer Cash Cunningham raced through about 100 items in the first hour of the event. Jewelry. Laptops. Police scanners. DVD Players. iPods. Coins and trading cards. It all went out the door to the highest bidders. "People are apparently looking for bargains," said Buffalo Police Commissioner H. McCarthy Gipson, who was on hand for the auction. "I'm surprised by how many people are here. They've got things they're interested in." The property included items confiscated from criminal enterprises as well as stolen goods and abandoned or unclaimed property left at police headquarters. "It's stuff found from citizens that's given back to the citizens," Capt. Mark Antonio said. "After 90 days, we Replica Louis Vuitton Bags have the right to auction it." At the last auction, authorities netted about $29,000. Antonio expected the city to far surpass that figure Saturday. Exact figures were still being tabulated Saturday evening. The money raised goes directly back into the city's general fund. Buffalo native Nina S. Yahya, a junior at Fredonia State College, was thrilled to bag a couple of digital cameras -- one for $40, one for $80 -- that she says she'll put to use in a photography class. She also won a bid on a stereo for $85 and hoped to get a computer projector later in the auction. "It's pretty exciting," Yahya said. "This is my first time . . . it's a learning experience." She stood next to a woman who was hoping to recoup a few leaded glass windows that had been stolen from her house. "I see some here that are comparable to mine," said the Buffalo woman who didn't want to give her name. "If only I could buy mine back. I'm a senior citizen on a fixed income. Ten, 15 bucks, that's all I can afford." Mont Blanc Replica Handbags One man was searching among dozens of bicycles for his, which he claims was stolen about a week ago, but he had no luck. Antonio said auction items are returned to stolen property victims if they are able to prove to police that an item belongs to them. "If they recognize it as theirs, and they can verify it on the spot, we do pull it out of the auction," Antonio said. e-mail: Other articles: http://blog.365master.com/?uid-212506-action-viewspace-itemid-26052 http://www.qh0977.com/Blog/View/?265 浏览(428) | 回复(0) |