Is it illegal to take things left outside charity shops?
Answer:
Yes, most donation locations have signs up stating it is illegal to take the property.
On a side note, if you are taking the property because of need, you can sign up for some assistance programs in the area you live. If you just like the stuff and have the money to afford stuff - please make a donation to good will (or another organization) to get rid of the guilt you should be feeling.
Haaaa haaa haaa..probably yeah.
It's certainly immoral.
lol im sure enough tramps do it.Its not good etiquette though !
no because if you do that then you are a charity case.
yes, that would be stealing, its been left outside a property.
I dont know whether it is illegal but it is certainly immoral and dishonest - knowing that the goods were not intended for you personally, constitutes theft - but I dont know what the law says.
No that is theft and can be a felony if the institution places a dollar amount on the property... theft is theft!
Hell yes, especially if they are a donation.
Many people drop things off at these shops when they are closed.
If you take it, you're taking away from the poor.
Not Good.
You'd be better off rummaging through trash bins, both legally and morally.
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probably not, heaps of people do it at night time. for example i hired a massive bin for my spring cleaning, and overnight, it was all filled with the neighbourhoods crap, and i had to pay for the hopper! :'( your damn right its immoral
Yes. It is illegal. They are left there for underprivileged people. Some people who can afford to purchase items are basically depriving genuine people in hardship.
Sure is,why would you ask such a thing?
it probably is
No, but it's tacky.
Well, unless you're taking a car sitting outside a charity shop. That's probably illegal AND tacky.
once it's on the doorstep it becomes that persons property, which makes you a tapper and a thief
Naw holmes its only illegal if you get caught....do it quickly and run holmes run!
No, its left on the street with no implication as to ownership, the charity shop only owns it once it is inside their premises.
There's a charity shop across the road from the office where I work. There's often a few bags there in the morning as they don't open til 9.30.
One day, a very respectable man in a nice car pulled up outside, opened the boot (trunk) of his car and emptied the bags out into it.
He then tried on various items of clothing (jackets, sweaters) before stuffing the clothes back into the bag and dumping them back outside the shop before driving off.
Couldn't see if he actually took anything, but we were speechless at his cheek!
If i dropped it off with the idea it was going to help someone in need, and i saw a person of wealth taking it,
he would be in need of a wheel chair for the rest of his life. it is immoral, illegal,
and in my case very dangerous to be caught doing.
Sort of. If it's left on the sidewalk outside the door, it cannot be illegal to take it. I KNOW it is illegal to remove things from the charity drop off boxes that are sometimes outside the place. Sometimes, the boxes are so full that people pile the stuff on the ground next to the drop off boxes. I'm not sure if that's legal to take but I've seen tons of people combing through the bags at night and no one ever stopped them, like the cops. I almost think it is legal to take that stuff as long as it's sitting on the ground in a parking lot or on the sidewalk/street. I do not see how a charity shop can claim they own every single thing that's laying on the ground in a public area. It's really NOT nice though.
Not sure actually as it's not clear who, if anyone, has ownership. But, you know, not a nice thing to do all the same.
Yeah!!
Taking things that don't belong to you is called stealing.
Old law in the UK, it would be classed as theft by finding,knowing it not to be your property,besides it is not it's not clever,so don't do it.
Whatever happened to "finders keepers....."
Don't think so, people wait outside oxfam in huddersfield on a sunday morning, waiting to go through car boot sale leftovers. Personally I think they are scroungers, but it's the mess they make, that really annoys me, because what they don't want is left over the road and totally useless to anyone.
I know its illegal to take anything from Goodwill collections boxes,so I would assume that it is also to take things that are left at charity shops.
Why in the would you want to take something that is designated for the neediest people in our society. Id be ashamed to even think of doing anything like that.And they weren't lost so no finders keepers either!
May I ask what this has to do with immigration?
Absolutely. It belongs to the charity since it is a donation. It belonged to the prior owner and then to the charity and never to the thief.
Illegal and Immoral, you would be taking money out of the hands of the poor and the ill.
Yes, it's called theft.
yes it is stealing unless they give it to you .........oh_hell
It's called stealing!So yes, it's illegal
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