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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Old Dad, Just stay here, it will happen all by itself! Anything you throw out here will be picked to pieces, looked at six ways to sunday, then folded, bent, spindled and mulitated before answered. Your original question needed a qualifier, in that if a meuseum knowingly accepted something stolen. If yes, then they should be prosecuted, if for no other reason than to stop the thief from doing more damage, and to allow the property to be returned to its owner. Most meuseum, railroad and other types, buy and sell items amoung themselves, and have a fairly extensive network of information on most of the items, and those that donate them. Anything from outside that network is checked over very throughly, before they accept it Again, if you belive a crime was committed, then contact your local DAs office. They have the resources to find out. Now the flip side, if they decline to check into it, then you reached a dead end, and the only thing left for you to do is follow Dans advice, and protest publicly. But that route requires you to be prepared to be arrested, or sued if you cant "prove" your case, or generate enough publicity to force the DA to change their mind. As for thick skinned, just become a locomotive enginner, thay all have bullet proof fanny calouses. Stay Frosty, Ed [/quote] Hi Ed, ME, Kevin, Jo, ETC. ETC. ETC. Well, I had another layer of skin grafted on today.....guess what the anti-rejection drug is....HUMBLE PIE.....Yuck! I do have trouble backing down from a good fight, I'll try to do better. SORRY if I stepped on any ones toes, I do get carried away sometimes. CAN WE BE FRIENDS NOW? I posted my first thread, about stealing from a R.R., because of a conversation with a "railfan" who felt that taking things from a R.R. wasn't stealing, it was preserving artifacts for future generations. My second thread about trespassing just seemed to be a logical next question. Since I had personal knowledge of a "questionable situation" at a R.R. museum I naively thought this would be a benign subject to bring to this forum.......WRONG!......it turned out to be anything but benign. I had originally intended this topic to be a hypothetical question but one thing lead to another. I've answered most of your questions Ed but they are buried deep within this pile of responses we call a thread. To save time I'll try to answer them again, all in one place. The items taken (notice, I didn't say stolen) "were misaporopriated" FROM a fellow railfan (yes it was myself) by ANOTHER railfan. After repeated attempts to regain my property or receive some sort of payment for the items failed, I gave up. About two years latter I was back in that part of the country and stopped in at the local R.R. museum. It was then that I noticed two items on a restored piece of equipment that looked very familiar. When I asked where they came from I was told that Mr. So and So donated them to the museum. Not only did this person take credit for the donation, he also told MY account of how the items were gotten and claimed that story as his own. I tried to set the record straight but no one wanted to hear what I had to say. I was shunned for the remainder of my visit, and continue to be shunned if I return to this museum. I have since learned that NO investigation was ever conducted regarding my claims. Thus my topic question, just looking for a consensus of opinions, nothing sinister intended. I probably could have worded my topic in a more clear way, I can see that now. WOW.....its 2:00 am.......Good Night.....OLD DAD
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