Originally Posted by
Rootman
Well, this is news to me. Maybe in England it's theft but I'm pretty sure that you would have a tough time with proving theft for picking up litter / junk anywhere in the USA. I've picked up quite a few things in my years on the road. If it were valuable or something like prescription glasses I'd probably try and find the owner, but anything else is free game as far as I'm concerned.
Even if you wanted to be a nice guy and return the prescription glasses...I mean what would you even do?
Like you I'd want to return them. They are of no value to me but cost someone who needs them a couple hundred bucks. But since glasses don't usually have a name tag on them....how could you return them even if you wanted to?
I found a dude's wallet once. It had his driver's license so I just put it in a box and mailed it back to him since I had his address. But most things, even expensive things, have no way to connect them back to a person.