All points well taken. But surely, there are zero publicity points for the police in sending off a confiscated vehicle for auction, and plenty for letting the world watch as you chop it into pieces?
In this case, as Dr F says, we don't know anything about the quad bike. It may have been dumped, dead or stolen. And (barring the latter) it might not have been a police issue at all but an act of trespass on army land - where, for all I know, different rules might have applied?
O/T, but a very long time ago one of my near-neighbours bought a Range Rover at a police auction. It had been seized from the home of "Goldfinger" John Palmer, who had melted down the spoils from the Brinks-Mat bullion robbery in his garden. Never in the history of motoring has a vehicle been so assiduously vacuumed, dismantled and checked for hidden compartments.
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(He found nothing. Well, that's his story anyway.)
BJ