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| Just had to hand over my new to me o-scope to the navy. |
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| mcovington:
I think the really key thing is that you are doing well to have a lawyer, and in any case your local police should be involved. An "investigator" from you-don't-know-where might not be legitimate. It could well be legitimate, but they should have to convince your local police as well as you. If the property is really stolen, they need to report it stolen to the police having jurisdiction at your location. |
| Gregg:
I doubt that a single scope would be something the navy would track as missing unless it was part of a sting and maybe the seller of this scope was being investigated for much more than just a scope. I was in the US navy from 1968 to1972 most of the time aboard an aircraft carrier. Each type of airplane was in a semi-autonomous group that was only assigned to the ship for a single deployment. At the beginning of a deployment, the air wing squadrons got all new tools, parts test equipment and whatever they wanted and loaded it all aboard so as to not have to ship it halfway across the globe. Those of us that kept the ship running, what was called the engineering department, had to scrounge what we could and had limited budgets to buy things we might need. But there were lots of places to hoard stuff in such a big ship and hopefully a predecessor had stashed some good items out of sight of the squeaky clean and squared away ranks. When the ship was headed back to the US after a deployment, the aircraft were flown off the ship and sent to various naval air stations around the US and the support people packed up whatever support equipment to be shipped to where the planes were going. A couple of days before the ship was scheduled to reach port, tons and tons of perfectly good tools, parts etc. were dumped overboard because they didn’t want to bother with it. During the first deployment, I found out making friends with the air-wing maintenance people could pay big dividends in intercepting tools to be thrown overboard at the end of a deployment. (It was amazing what a bottle of booze would buy on a dry ship that had been at sea for many weeks.) Nobody seemed to track any of this stuff. I would only assume that when an air-wing would be assigned to a ship from a naval air base, they would just leave tons of stuff behind. |
| blacksheeplogic:
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on January 24, 2020, 11:38:17 pm --- Not unless the OP purchased it KNOWING that it was stolen. Since the OP bought this via E-bay that would be a TOUGH charge to make stick. --- End quote --- Having the stolen item is all that's required to have a change of receiving laid, it's just a bit of paper work. Sure, it might not stick IF you can afford the lawyer to defend you, eventually anyway. The only rights you actually have in the US are the ones you can afford to assert.... |
| Marck:
I wonder if the item is legitimately stolen equipment that the Navy would want it back simply for secure destruction? Depending on who in the navy managed to loose this particular bit of TE. Sometimes it’s just easier to be agreeable in these situations once it’s proven as legitimate. I know that customers of the past have applied significant pressure to eBay sellers that have made the mistake of listing items that where able to be identified as belonging to them. Even though as a $$ value to the owners is close to 0. M |
| vk6zgo:
Sounds suspiciciously like the following:- "There is something wrong with your computer/I am from Windows", "I am from Telstra, your phone is about to be cut off" or "This is the Australian Tax Office, there is a warrant for your arrest for non payment of back taxes, unless you send "X" thousand dollars to this account" All usually delivered in an Indian accent! ;D |
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