I thought about this one for a moment, What if the police helped you and then when you rode off pulled you over and nailed you for a BUI, even a citation for no lights ? Sometimes you can't win. I think he should have made the effort to drop it back off where it all started after getting his bike back. Then he didn't steal it, whether it gets stolen after that, well, in getting his bike back, he was inconvenienced enough, returning it clears his conscience as long as he locks it up with the original owners lock he had to cut thru and destroy to recover his own property.