Matt wrote:
> "Bob Robertson" wrote in message
> news:Z5cGj.30115$kN5.20925@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
>> 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?
>
> Apply your theory to a car/any household goods/etc.
>
> It was theft
Not really - that's why we have an offence called TWOC
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