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SR91
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11th May 09 at 22:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Finding car parts at the side of the road shortly after an accident, then taking them with you?


I'm not a pikey, just a good Samaritan
am4nf
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11th May 09 at 22:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
whos to know?
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11th May 09 at 22:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
What did you get?
SR91
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A free star silver bumper, perfect for when I'm smoothing mine
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Ian
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11th May 09 at 23:19   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Theft I would imagine. Compounded by the fact that the car is probably owned by an insurance company with good legal assistance.
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ive done this in the past.. ive had no problems
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Finders keepers tbh.........

Only really theft if it was on private property
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12th May 09 at 08:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
hardly, your taking something which is property of somebody else/ insurance company, constitutes theft in my book
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If its still like a crash site then i agree with you but im thinking if say it was just the bumper and little bits of scrap left at the side of the road like.....
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I found a almost new stainless exaust on the road once
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quote:
Originally posted by FruitBooTeR
Finders keepers tbh.........

Only really theft if it was on private property


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There are still some bits of my dads car left at the side of the road from when he crashed. The police or the recovery men failed to clean up properly.
I'd say if its been there for a while, then its classed as litter, so you're doing your bit by taking it away and clearing the road(side).
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quote:
Originally posted by marklawton
quote:
Originally posted by FruitBooTeR
Finders keepers tbh.........

Only really theft if it was on private property




SO your car is at the side of the road then I can take it because its not on private property?
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12th May 09 at 09:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
No because youd have to break into it to take it...... unless you get a flat bed

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Dont think there is any law on it tbh, bit like the animals you cant get your own roadkill but pick up someone else's.

On my corsa i had wheel trims that looked like anthraite (sp?) alloys, after i crashed my motor went to the spot few days later and the one that landed on the grass had been pinched.
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but i wouldnt touch it if someone died..
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Technically you should take it to your local nick as lost and found. If no one claimed it after a certain time, you could return and collect it for yourself.

Still costs you nothing, except a bit more time, and it's legal.

But in the real world I think the coppers in the station would laugh at you wandering in to hand a bumper in to them.

(This is all assuming you mean you found it stuck in a hedge/left on a grass verge etc)

[Edited on 12-05-2009 by CorsAsh]
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a friend of mine found a set of scrap nakerd alloys on some wasteland and he got prosicuted for theft by finding wounded or what !saying that scunthorpes pigs are the worst ive come across
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Was he not just stripping a car he'd just nicked?
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its the old 'all reasonable steps to find the true owner of the property' shiz

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Your removing litter from the side of the road
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haha this reminds me of a rolled 106 gti I seen at the side of the road, a few days later it had no alloys, bumpers and the exhaust was nicked as well
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whos going to find out you nicked it if their is no one round?

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