Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LOS ANGELES, April 13 (UPI) -- Recovery of a classic motorcycle made it twice this year that the Department of Homeland Security blocked overseas passage of stolen gems at Los Angeles. The Yamaha motorcycle, swiped 34 1/2 years ago off a Long Beach street, was returned to its surprised and delighted owner, an airline plot who often flew one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Advertisement It was headed for Lahti, Finland, to a man who purchased it there on EBay, The Los Angeles Times said. The recovery mirrored that of a stolen, pristine 1968 Corvette, which federal agents returned to its owner in January. The $18,000 sports car was taken from a New York City garage in 1969 and found in a steel shipping container headed to a car buff in Stockholm. Through the end of 2005, agents at the Port of Los Angeles say they had seized 221 outward-bound vehicles -- mostly luxury SUVs -- worth a total of $4.7 million.
