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Originally Posted by Supervox
Me - recycling
Law - probably theft
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Me - recycling
Law - vague on this believe it or not. From my security days i can tell you this much...the Theft Act defines theft as "to deprive the owner of his/her goods with
the intention to permanently deprive"
That is why the laws of Taking Without Owners Consent etc were introduced cos you can always say you took the chain as it was an eyesore and you were keeping it safely for the owner until he returned. Never at any time did you intend to deprive him of this chain permanently, you simply took it away for safe keeping and on seeing the owner you would have rushed out to him and told him you had his chain.
hence you have commited no offence...except for criminal damage of course where you cut the lock off but again if you offer to replace the lock the you have not commited an offence
Also any sane cop (if you can find any that is) will agree that 2 yrs is an unreasonable amount of time to leave something as an eyesore and clearly the owner has no intention to return to collect it anyway so you simply did a community spirited thing