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Originally Posted by f6twister
It is always better to report it. There is always a chance, no matter how remote, that your item will be found. If you don't report it stolen, the police have no way to get a found or recovered item back to the owner and it will sit in evidence until it is destroyed or sold (depending on state law or department policy).
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Plus 1 on this! This is exactly what happened to me. When I was in college somebody stole my bicycle.
I wasn't much of a bike, so I kind of just blew it off and didn't report it to the cops.
Several months later my husband and I went to the local county surplus property/police auction, and THERE WAS MY BIKE!!! Other than my say-so there was no way to prove that it was mine, (no license, registration, etc) so they wouldn't just let me have it back because I hadn't made a report at the time of the theft.
After the theft, it apparently had been found abandoned on the street somewhere.
Lindy