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Subject: Riding someone elses bike. Theft? Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:09:45 GMT

I saw on one of these police programs a guy was caught on CCTV late at
night taking an unlocked bicycle and riding it around. When the police
caught up with him he was a youngish lad probably in college who seemed a
bit upset that his late night drunken antics was going to leave him with
his first criminal record.

I was wondering, could he just have argued that he was going to put it
back where he found it once he finished riding it, hence not 'permanently
depriving' the owner? He was probably going to keep it as a trophy but how
would the police know?