could i get in trouble

[edog]

Anybody that gives stupid info about keeping stolen property should be.....

[kb200x]

Oh man you have to call the cops and report it. You can't go wrong by doing the right thing.

Just a month ago I had my 350x swiped by some kids. They didn't do any damage they couldnt even start it. They pushed it a mile or two down the railroad tracks and hide it under some tree branches. I was lucky and a guy that works for the railroad found it and did the right thing and called the cops and reported it. He also stopped and knocked on my door and asked if I was missing anything. Do the right thing. Someday you maybe on the other side. Everything that goes around comes around.... Karma dude

[dizasterzrfun69]

Everything that goes around comes around.... Karma dude

My name is Earl yea i remember you talking about the 350x being stolen. I'd sure hope someone did the right thing if my trike/bike was stolen. hell i might even give the guy some money for being so honest.

[foster]

I had my trike stolen and words cannot describe how crushed I was. I'm not rich and that was my only ride. I almost cried.
Then some kid found it in the woods and to my shock the cops called me one day: "Mr. Foster, we got your trike back. Come and pick it up."
I was shocked!
I got the name of the kid and phoned him up, spoke to his dad too. Then I mailed them a gift package (some ATVing hats and shirts and pizza coupons for the whole family.) I wrote a letter to the kid explaining to him what a difference he made in my life and to keep it up because he was a real asset to his family and his community.
Glad to see some folks raise their kids properly, unlike the parents of a few on this board. But no worries, anyone who encourages theft and taking advantage of the misery of others WILL get what's coming to him. Life is funny like that.

[theonlyjosh]

Yeah when i was about 9 i bought a 1983 atc 110 for 500 bucks( which was like my life savings) not that much but i didn't have any other sources of money lol... so yea i made the horrible mistake of leaving it out somewhat in the open and woke up to find it missing, we called the cops filed a report, but i didn't have a serial# or anything, only pictures and a receipt from the guy i bought it from... i almost cried, but a few years later i saved up money and bought another trike... i never found out who stole it, and every time i see one for sale locally i think of mine...

[TimSr]

If it's there another day or two...I would go ahead and take it. Who cares if its stolen...as long as you didnt do it. Look through the local paper and see if you see an add for it though.

Dont tell the cops, and dont tell anyone you found it on the side of the trail, and you will have no trouble.

Funny but when I caught the punk driving my stolen 4 wheeler, the first thing he said was that he "found" it. And no, I didnt put an ad in the paper!!!!!!!!!! An ad like what? "Would the punk who stole my quad please call me so I can pick it up?" Get a clue, man! Its a stolen vehicle, NOT a puppy that ran away!

By the way, the punk who supposedly "found" my quad was convicted of its theft, and he should feel very lucky that I chose to call the police over some alternatve choices I could have made, and I wasnt exactly emotionally moved over his claim that he "found" it.

[dizasterzrfun69]

Funny but when I caught the punk driving my stolen 4 wheeler, the first thing he said was that he "found" it. And no, I didnt put an ad in the paper!!!!!!!!!! An ad like what? "Would the punk who stole my quad please call me so I can pick it up?" Get a clue, man! Its a stolen vehicle, NOT a puppy that ran away!

By the way, the punk who supposedly "found" my quad was convicted of its theft, and he should feel very lucky that I chose to call the police over some alternatve choices I could have made, and I wasnt exactly emotionally moved over his claim that he "found" it.

where'd he find it? In your garage? some people..........

[Howdy]

where'd he find it? In your garage? some people..........

From what I can remember TimSr had it right outside his Bedroom window trying to sell it. I searched to forums for the original thread, but it must have been on one of our previous forums.

I had a 350x and a Yamahualer stolen out of the shop. The cops didn't do much until after I had done a whole bunch of investigating on my own. I ended up getting enough evidence to convict the 3 scum bags involved. I then took that info to the detectives and they finalized everything. Each had their day in court, each had to pay 1/3rd of the restitution. 2 of the kids paid quickly and I could tell they were sorry for what they did. The 3rd paid about 1/2 of the restitution and then skipped town.

Kevin, You dad knows the PUNK that hasn't paid ( Roy Schmitt JR ). He is 100% like his dad ( Scum of the Earth ).

Howdy

[Lomax]

I dont know what the cops are like in your area but if there anything the same as down here. Call them, tell them the situation and most likley you will be pushing it home. When :edited: fourwheeler got stolen out in front of my house a few months back the first thing i did was call the cops. They came out with a notepad and did a BS report and such. Thinking everything was a little odd i called in the VIN number about a week later. It wasnt even in the system so whoever stole literally got away with it. I will never forget EXACTLY what my machine looks like and the wrath of Desert Eagle, my hands, a Bat or anything thing i have will avenge the wrong doing of the theft of that machine. If the above is the case then run an add in the paper about it and if someone calls and can properly identify it (along with either having the correct VIN or paperwork) then let them have it back for the cost of running the add and for your troubles. Its better in the end to do the right thing and just say it sucks that you didnt get to keep it rather than keep it and have to worry about someone like me keeping there eye open for it all the time. Oh, and always keep a copy of the ad just to prove that you tried to do the right thing in case whoever owns it doesnt see the ad and then spots there machine.

[brapp]

i found a lil yfm 80 while fishing it floated down the creek after a flood, i threw it on the truck and took ti straight to the police station and after 30 days it was mine but i took pic sof it in the brush wher eit was upside down and washed into the bank. and also called them ahead of time to let them know i was brining it in.

[wheelie king]

Report it, and that is all you can do.

The Law Enforcement agency investigating the incident is ultimately the final say in what happens. (I got that reference, Will, and sorry that Cass county is so crappy- you did all you could)

IN Florida, not reporting found property, in this case a motor vehicle, and approriating it for your own use- is GRAND THEFT. Like, Felony, boys.

Do the right thing.

[TimSr]

A simple question to emphasize my point: Your quad/trike/moped gets stolen. You see somebody with it in their posession a few months later, and you know its yours from some distinguishing characteristics. When you confront them, and they say they found it, do you let them off the hook since they didnt actually steal it? Would you believe it? Even if they offer it back to you, do you believe them, take it home, and let it go, or do you want their butts prosecuted? What if they didnt steal it, really did find it, but knew that there was a reasonable chance it might be stolen, and just kept it under wraps until it cooled down? Do you still want them prosecuted even though they just happened to find it in a ditch along the road?

[3 weelin geezer]

I was reminded of this thread just now when there were 3 men in Nicaragua who routinely "find" things like stuff inside of people's homes, women's purses, cars (sometimes with someone still driving it). The police had them in custody but the people were fed up with the revolving door system. So, many of them beat the XXXX out of them and tried to light them on fire with gas but failed. So they just kicked and punched XXXX out of them and hit them with makeshift rock s. One of them died in the street and the other 2 were taken to the hospital with life threatening wounds. So, whats the moral of the story? Don't go around "finding" things that proabaly as in the case of some cars sometimes have the owner nearby and won't be very happy to just give their stuff away.

[dizasterzrfun69]

I was reminded of this thread just now when there were 3 men in Nicaragua who routinely "find" things like stuff inside of people's homes, women's purses, cars (sometimes with someone still driving it). The police had them in custody but the people were fed up with the revolving door system. So, many of them beat the XXXX out of them and tried to light them on fire with gas but failed. So they just kicked and punched XXXX out of them and hit them with makeshift rock s. One of them died in the street and the other 2 were taken to the hospital with life threatening wounds. So, whats the moral of the story? Don't go around "finding" things that proabaly as in the case of some cars sometimes have the owner nearby and won't be very happy to just give their stuff away.

sorry but the end result of that story was AWESOME im not the kind of guy to go whipping peoples arses but if they kept doing it over and over they definately desreved it. If i EVER catch someone stealing from me/ breaking in, i'd hate to know what i'll do but i think it'll be similar to the above story

[3 weelin geezer]

Ya, must have been some pretty simple people of that village to not be able to figger out how to set someone on fire after flinging a whole bucket of gas on them. Either that or it was old gas. I thought it was a bucket of pee. Lets say they were not out of jail again in time to go home for dinner. They should let them do that here instead of allowing them to write a book how they would have committed murder and make a killing.