Re: Overheard on the scanner

In message <em2724h3pta1a214l77ja6o1jg2i6bufrb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Douglas Berry
<penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes

>Tell me, if you hop into a car and drive it away with no reson to
>believe that the owner would object to you borrowing it for an hour or
>so, is that still grand theft auto?

 Oddly enough in the UK "borrowing" a car is not necessarily classed as
theft. "Taking and driving away without the owner's consent" (sometimes
verbed to "twoc") is still an prosecutable offence though. The
prosecution at trial would need to prove that the person twoccing
somebody's car meant to permanently deprive them of it for the offence
to be characterised as theft (stripping it for parts, or reselling on to
a third party, for example, or destroying it).
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