Tag: dirk degroot
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This American Life interviews Seattle’s retired ‘Bike Batman’
Dirk deGroot made headlines a few years back as Seattle’s “Bike Batman,” a guy who would find reported stolen bikes for sale on sites like Craigslist or OfferUp and then go recover the bikes and give them back to the owners. He did this dozens of times before retiring a few years back. This American…
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