"next generation" wrote in message
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> On Mar 25, 7:43 pm, "Matt" wrote:
>> "Steve Walker" wrote in message
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>> news:64t24fF2ctehrU1@mid.individual.net...
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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.
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>> >>> 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?
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>> >> Apply your theory to a car/any household goods/etc.
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>> >> It was theft
>>
>> > Not really - that's why we have an offence called TWOC
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>> TWOC can be classed as theft, dependant on it's circumstances and
>> dervives
>> from the Theft Act 1968
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> Correct, Its s12(1) but has a lesser punishment.
It is NOT theft because there is no element of "intent to permanently
deprive".
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