Found a bike last week

[Beccyboop 10]

A colleague of mine found a phone on the street and took it home to sort out trying to return it to its owner. Within half an hour there was a knock at the door, it was the police, the phone had been tracked to their address. The person who found the phone was accused of stealing it and was questioned at the police station. You have been warned

[Squiggs 11]

A colleague of mine found a phone on the street and took it home to sort out trying to return it to its owner. Within half an hour there was a knock at the door, it was the police, the phone had been tracked to their address. The person who found the phone was accused of stealing it and was questioned at the police station. You have been warned

 

So if your bike starts to ring, leggit!

[Mr A 10]

I'm amazed that bike lasted there unlocked. I wouldn't leave mine locked anywhere in sheffield.

[hyper 10]

Ok, we are talking about this incident being at 2am now if a car is parked mysteriously on its own with the keys in then I could do a number of things, 1 is leave them in and guarrentee some opotunist would TWOC it or 2 I could phone the police and tell them the car has been left with the keys in and guarrentee they would not come out so number 1 would come along or 3 i could safely take the keys out and hand them to the police, its not really about which one is the right thing to do its about if them keys were stolen, clearly they are not and its the same with the bike

it is about which is the right thing to do and in both your example and that of the OP, you both do the right thing - good intentions, making property safe and using common sense.

 

Those who are accusing of stealing are either trolling or have no sense of practicality

[tzijlstra 11]

In the Netherlands you quickly learn that an unlocked bike means one of two things:

 

A) Yay! Free bike!

 

or

 

B) The police have planted it to catch bike-thieves.

[Unitedite 10]

Just to be clear, it isn't theft if you take something with the intention of returning it to its owner.

 

18springhill - posting on the forum isn't a bad thing to do but you should definitely contact the police if you haven't already.