I often wonder about ownership issues in cases like this. I mean, just because something fell off the back of a truck, doesn't it still belong to the original owner? There was a case on History Detectives a while back where a woman had some Civil War era pistols that had been in her family for decades. Turned out they were stolen from the owner in the 1970s. Don't know how that turned out.
And I thought I was lucky the other week when I found three 1970s (or maybe 1980s) large beer steins, one tulip shaped beer snifter, and a DVD of Melville's UN FLIC for the equivalent of $5.
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I often wonder about ownership issues in cases like this. I mean, just because something fell off the back of a truck, doesn't it still belong to the original owner? There was a case on History Detectives a while back where a woman had some Civil War era pistols that had been in her family for decades. Turned out they were stolen from the owner in the 1970s. Don't know how that turned out.
You mean "finders, keepers, losers, weepers" isn't established legal doctrine?
And I thought I was lucky the other week when I found three 1970s (or maybe 1980s) large beer steins, one tulip shaped beer snifter, and a DVD of Melville's UN FLIC for the equivalent of $5.
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