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Re:Convert a Bird Scooter to a personal one with $32 kit by scatters on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:27AM (#18606547)
If you leave a car by the side of the road and someone takes it is that stealing?

Vehicles - of whatever size - have a distinct treatment from other forms of property; you can station them beside the highway without being deemed to have abandoned them.

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Re:Convert a Bird Scooter to a personal one with $32 kit by shaki-dora on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @04:36AM (#18606847)
You are vaguely remembering the Castle Doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_doctrine

That's not necessary here. Taking of property requires explicit or clearly implied consent. The latter includes depositing something in a trash can. But just leaving it on the streets clearly does not.

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