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The law says the finder has to try to contact the owner, he tried and they didn't answer his calls. So he's supposed to just burn the phone or make it magically

The law says the finder has to try to contact the owner, he tried and they didn't answer his calls. So he's supposed to just burn the phone or make it magically disappear?

pyre 16y ago
I believe that the penal code says that if he can't contact the owner he needs to turn it into a police station. {edit} To those down-voting read section (a) here: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/CIV/5/d3/4/6/4/1/s2080.1 http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/CIV/5/d3/4/6/4/1/s2080.1 (a)If the owner is unknown or has not claimed the property, the person saving or finding the property shall, if the property is of the value of one hundred dollars ($100) or more, within a reasonable time turn the property over to the police department of the city or city and county, if found therein, or to the sheriff's department of the county if found outside of city limits, and shall make an affidavit, stating when and where he or she found or saved the property, particularly describing it. If you don't like the law, don't down-vote me just for stating what it is.
milkshakes 16y ago
No, but he's not supposed to sell it.
- papachito 16y ago
  So a journalist may go to jail for breaking news over a technicality and a law that barely no one knows about and that never gets applies to anyone except when corporations are in the game. Great.
  - pyre 16y ago
    Exposing bogus laws is what generates publicity/public pressure to repeal them. Ignoring them, but leaving them on the books just because dealing with them is inconvenient is not the way to build a better society. Not saying that I agree with you, but this is that way that society/law/etc works.
rufo 16y ago
I think this comment sums it up nicely: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299174 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299174

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The law says the finder has to try to contact the owner, he tried and they didn't answer his calls. So he's supposed to just burn the phone or make it magically

by papachito 16y ago

The law says the finder has to try to contact the owner, he tried and they didn't answer his calls. So he's supposed to just burn the phone or make it magically disappear?

pyre 16y ago
I believe that the penal code says that if he can't contact the owner he needs to turn it into a police station. {edit} To those down-voting read section (a) here: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/CIV/5/d3/4/6/4/1/s2080.1 http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/CIV/5/d3/4/6/4/1/s2080.1 (a)If the owner is unknown or has not claimed the property, the person saving or finding the property shall, if the property is of the value of one hundred dollars ($100) or more, within a reasonable time turn the property over to the police department of the city or city and county, if found therein, or to the sheriff's department of the county if found outside of city limits, and shall make an affidavit, stating when and where he or she found or saved the property, particularly describing it. If you don't like the law, don't down-vote me just for stating what it is.
milkshakes 16y ago
No, but he's not supposed to sell it.
- papachito 16y ago
  So a journalist may go to jail for breaking news over a technicality and a law that barely no one knows about and that never gets applies to anyone except when corporations are in the game. Great.
  - pyre 16y ago
    Exposing bogus laws is what generates publicity/public pressure to repeal them. Ignoring them, but leaving them on the books just because dealing with them is inconvenient is not the way to build a better society. Not saying that I agree with you, but this is that way that society/law/etc works.
rufo 16y ago
I think this comment sums it up nicely: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299174 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299174