So just out of curiosity say somone puts somthing , a secondhand stove for example on my door step on my property and i take it to the scrap dealer and get $10.00 for it, then somone turns up and says hey that was mine, legaly do i
A. owe them the $10.00
B. owe them a stove
C. give them an account for disposing of their rubbish
D.
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Hey Bill, I guess in Taupo, depends of whether the stove is still burning when they put it against your door.
But actually you have no right to sell it even though it is on your property. You have the right to inform the Police or the Council of illegal dumping on your property, the Council and Police then have to find the guilty party and retrieve the property. OR you can dump it back on your verge thereby it becomes the Council's property. People have actually been done for stealing from the Council scavenging off front verges during clean ups. OF course you are totally at liberty to accumulate storage charges against the dumper which may be an easier way of getting your $10.