Posted 07 February 2006 - 01:58 AM
That's harsh, but you aren't the first person who's been caught in the middle. A friend of mine worked for a neighbor who lived across a field. My friend wanted to run home to grab something, so the neighbor told him to hop on the 4-wheeler that was parked out front and take it home, then come back.
So the rightful owner of the 4-wheeler, who wasn't the neighbor of course, caught my pal on the 4-wheeler. They were on my friend's property (trespassing) riding other 4-wheelers, actually, but they called the cops anyway. My friend gave them the 4-wheeler, said he had no clue that it had been stolen from them, and walked back over to the neighbor's to figure out what was going on. Ah, some excuse of course, so my friend decided not to work for that moron anymore.
What nobody told my friend was that the cops were called even though the rightful owners (a.k.a. the trespassers) had gotten their 4-wheeler back without any problems from my friend. The cops actually issued a warrant, which nobody knew about until my friend was pulled over almost a year later and promptly taken to jail, where he had to stay overnight because he was pulled out of his car at something like 10 or 11 at night.
That was over *two years ago* and my friend's court date still hasn't come up yet. He has to call his bail bondsman once a week to say, "Yeah, it's X, I'm still in town, bye." Freaking retarded.
Moral of the story: don't ever even *touch* anything that isn't yours. Just *using* the stuff is enough to get you into trouble.
, Please 
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