On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:52:20 -0700, wrote:

I doubt an abandonment claim would work too, but without knowing the state
laws on the subject, who knows. If it meets the terms of the law, I don't
think it would be hard to prove. The fact that it's been sitting there,
out in the open for X years and the company who owns it has done nothing,
is obvious. But the specifics of the law are what will count.

Understood.
They could have come at any time to pick it up.
They didn't.