Hi Falcon
If thats the case i will hand them in at a camp near me
I don't know about that.
I was always told to hand stuff in if I didn't or did know the owner. I once found a wallet on a bus stuffed with notes and cards. I handed it in.
The law states:
Theft by finding occurs when someone who chances upon an object which seems abandoned takes possession of the object but fails to take steps to establish whether the object is abandoned and not merely lost or unattended.* In some jurisdictions the crime is called "larceny by finding" or "stealing by finding".
If you put that with Falcon's post #3. It's all about moral decisions.
Bearing in mind that these grenades are said to come "from a rubbish dump near to where a British army camp was being closed down", could an Ammotech on the forum comment on this manner of disposal for such current stores? Would such items not be transferred to another facility?
Hi, Just my 2 pence worth but, the grenades where purchased presumably from a local authority recycling center, so the purchaser would then have a reasonable expectation that the seller had authority to sell the item, The question of should it have been available for sale is another matter, the unit leaving the camp should have returned all/any accountable items via the appropriate channels for the type/class of item to be returned. Your average local tip worker would not have much of an idea if the unit or clearance contractor dumped a large amount of various military items which ones should or shouldn't have ended up in his possession. Any fault will lay with the unit or person in charge of the disposal.
I did read a dit in one of the MOD in house magazines that the MOD does not sell surplus rations, that being the case, how come you can find dozens of them on fleabay??
Richard.
Local authority staff are not permitted to accept cash for items dumped at rubbish tips or elsewhere. I lays them way open to corruption. I my experience local authorities no longer allow the public to remove anything from dump sites because a) it would make them vulnerable to claims from the people who did it and b) they now recycle much of what they get so it is cash income for them.
John
For everyones peace of mind i will make sure they go back
The recycling center these were brought from have a selling area as it is a private run site and they make up most of their wages in the selling of items thown away , i have had a number of ammo boxes and shell cases over the years that have been thrown away , i was abit surpised to see these there but was told the local camp had thrown alot of things away when they were clearing the camp .