An American whose electric bike was stolen at Burning Man in Nevada's Black Rock Desert last year says the GPS tracker shows the bike, which he built himself, has ended up in New Zealand.
A group of Kiwis on Reddit is now on a mission to track down and return the stolen bike to its owner after he posted online that the Tile GPS tracker shows the bike is moving around the country.
"Last year at Burning Man, in the US, somebody stole my beloved electric bicycle. It was crappy and janky, cause I built it myself, but I still loved it," the man posted on the New Zealand subreddit earlier today.
"Well funny thing: that was in August of last year. Today, the tracker that I put on the bike, started responding again ... literally halfway around the world in New Zealand. Seems like a long way to take a stolen bike, but lots of people come from all over the world for BM, and often things are sent in shipping containers back and forth to get there," he added.
He says it would not be worth the money for him to travel to New Zealand to find his bike so has shared tracking details with all Kiwis in the hope someone finds it and keeps it.