"next generation" wrote in message
news:24b8e35f-d5a2-4858-beaf-127f385f5d46@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> for theft in law the police have to prove that you:
> -dishonestly
> -appropriate
> -property
> -belonging to another
> -intenting to deprive the other
>
> borrowing amounts to taking for his/her own use and is the same as
> outright taking, regardless of whether you planned to return it.
It only amounts to an outright taking if, when returned, the bicycle has
lost what is called "its virtue"- e.g. taking a season ticket, using it up,
and returning the actual piece of card itself still amounts to theft of the
season ticket, because when returned it is useless. The same cannot be said
of a bicycle, if it's still a bicycle when it is returned.
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