Psst - Wanna buy some stolen goods?

[Chris Plumb]

Legally!

 

If UK Police Forces can't repatriate stolen goods with their rightful owners they often get flogged off on this site:

 

http://www.bumblebeeauctions.co.uk/XcAuctionPro.asp

 

Often cheaper than ebay!

 

C.

[chesters1]

Bumped into it in the past but i have often wondered what happens if the owner demands it back.

The police ofcourse are breaking the law either by "stealing by finding" or handling stolen goods ,or is it the police even in this simple thing are above the law as they appear to be in many things?

 

The same also applies to lost property sales etc

Edited July 1, 2015 by chesters1

[Vagabond]

I may have told this before, so apologies to older members.

 

I witnessed , in the Old Steine, Brighton a roll of lead sheeting fall off the back of a lorry. Luckily, I didn't take its registration number

 

Picked the roll of lead up, and marched along to Brighton police station with it. I knew the law on such matters, so handed it in and registered a claim.

 

Handing it in was amusing - it was very heavy, but I was (then) a strong young man in his early twenties and carried it as nonchalantly as if it were a roll of tin foil. I didn't let on as I handed it to the duty copper and was only slightly disappointed when he only just avoided dropping it on his toe.

 

Anyway, when the statutory period had elapsed, there I was on the dot, to claim my roll of lead. It has not quite yielded a life-time's supply of fishing weights, but that's my own fault for living so long

 

It's not everyone that can truthfully say about some of their gear "Oh, it fell off the back of a lorry"

[Paulg]

The one and only time I took something to the police station that might have been nicked there was no chance that I was going to get to keep it if not reclaimed, it was a 100 round belt of live .5 calibre ammunition Found it in some woods near where I lived, this was back in the early 70's.

 

I've looked at the bumblebee site before, and like you say, sometimes cheaper than ebay, the only drawback I found was you have to collect....and I've never seen anything I want at a station closer than about 100 miles away!