>be me
>riding in the city
>on a paved bike trail
>there's some path going down towards the river
>decide to explore
>some singletrack jutting off from it
>go on the singletrack
>some guy has a tent set up
>ride past him
>go a very little ways further
>see a clothes line with a bunch of clothes
>get far enough to see around corner
>some old guy has a camp set up
>he has like 6 bikes there, maybe more I didn't see, wouldn't surprise me if he had 10
>thought he saw me, but I didn't want to bother him, I turned around
>then a few seconds later (acting like he hadn't seen me before) he said "who's there!?"
>I said "I'm just wandering around exploring, I didn't realize you had a camp set up here, sorry"
>he said "That's alright bro!", sounded like a nice friendly guy
But why the fuck did he have a fuckload of bikes at his camp? Is he a bike thief? Should I steal them back then look up their serial numbers and find their original owners and give them back? Or did this hobo actually buy like 10 bikes for himself?