Originally Posted by
smd4
No, you don't have to make that assumption. If it was my bike, and I put it there, as is MY RIGHT TO DO SO, with MY PRIVATE PROPERTY, you have ZERO RIGHT to steal it.
You consider it "unethical" to return a used tool, but bike theft is perfectly OK. Oh, and you wouldn't be "mistaken" for a thief. YOU WOULD BE ONE.
Nah. You can't just leave your private property sitting in a public place indefinitely, without knowing that at some point it will be considered abandoned. He said it's been sitting there for two weeks.