"Steve Walker" wrote in message
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> 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
TWOC can be classed as theft, dependant on it's circumstances and dervives
from the Theft Act 1968
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