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Subject: Re: Riding someone elses bike. Theft? Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:20:55 GMT


"Baldoni" wrote in message
news:mn.cd3a7d839c7d4b03.81063@gmail.com...
> After serious thinking Bob Robertson wrote :
>> 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?
>
> Every weekend a guy would take my mates bike from outside his building in
> Jersey and ride it about half a mile into town and leave it in the same
> place.

Wasn't near a childrens home was it?