Arrested for being honest

Nitz · Apr 11, 2009

STUDENT ARRESTED...FOR BEING HONEST

AN HONEST student who handed in a mobile phone he found was stunned when police arrested him for theft.
Paul Leicester, 18, played the Good Samaritan when he discovered the handset lying in the street.
He rang the last number dialled and told a friend of the owner he would leave the phone at a nearby police station. But officers arrested him for “theft by finding”, held him for four hours and took a DNA sample.

Apparently it's illegal to "find" someone's property.... :cuss:

Hyuuga Neji · Apr 11, 2009

wow... WTF!!?? i'm never gonna pick up anything i see in the street again

E.V. · Apr 11, 2009

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA **** PAUL!

His life sucks, but hey, what'd you expect? Go into a police office with a valuable thing and say "Oh, I FOUND this." They might have thought he was just expecting a reward for finding it when he actually did steal it.

Hyuuga Neji · Apr 11, 2009

well maybe thats what they thought
but like what if he really DID find it
i'd have been scared as shit if i got arrested for finding some one elses phone

Nitz · Apr 12, 2009

Well.. anyone can say they "found" it... How can you prove they didn't steal it? Yeah.. the person is returning it, but it could be their guilt telling them to return it, if they in fact stole it....

I think it's stupid, but the law system is facked anyways.....