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"Leslie Gossett" wrote in message
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Its not a theft. Someone left it there. It belongs to the person that
found
it.

Actually, in Maine, it is a crime. Title 17A Section 356 - Theft of lost,
mislaid or mistakenly delivered property
A person is guilty of theft if:
He obtains or exercises control over the property of another which he knows
to have been lost or mislaid or to have been delivered under a mistake as to
the identity of the recipient or as to the nature or amount of the property

Not a lawyer (thank goodness) either, but I suspect the Maine law also
must have some clause in it that would require said property to have
some means of identifying the rightful owner. i.e. if one finds a
wallet with say $5 in it, taking that wallet is theft. However, if one
finds $5 lying on the sidewalk with no means to identify the rightful
owner, then I suspect there is a clause that this condition is not a
crime.