Originally Posted by
jeanatx
why's everyone so against op taking this frame? i thought i'd at least see a 50/50 in terms of opinion.
anyways, my $0.02, take it.
Everyone in jail ALSO had a good reason for doing what they did to get arrested and convicted.
Here's the thing. It's not like finding a $100 bill on the ground. Even then, you are supposed to report the find to the police and wait a certain amount of time for someone to claim it. That's what you do when you find an envelope with $20,000 cash and no contact info (yes, this HAS happened). After a defined amount of time, it's yours. But, you MUST go through the process.
This bike is not abandoned, lost, in a dumpster, on the side of a building, in an alley. This bike is locked to a pole.
If a bike is so much like a car, how would you feel if you locked your car and went away for 2 weeks and came back and found it stripped sitting on bricks?...and the OP was pulling out the last salvageable bits because someone else started the job.
Wrong is wrong.