Help me --- pawn shop got my ring!!!?

Question

help i found two ring's im my car park i put a poster for 1 week up but no one clamed it ... so greedly i pawnd it only to find out that it was my GF best freinds rings ... and she thinks it was stolen and reported it to the police...i tride to get it back but thro away the recipt and now the pawn guy says ill have to wait for it to be put up for sale because ther is no way i can get emm back ( i sold for £45 turns out its worth £500) i have to wit till it gose up for sale ...., also i cant tell her i have sold emm she will think i stole emm and ill lose my gf

plz tell me what should i do go to the police and tell emm what happond will thay belive me ??? or not

Answer 1

You are guilty of 'Theft by Finding'.

What you should have done when you found these rings was to hand them into the Police. After a one month period, if unclaimed by an owner the property would have become legally yours and you could have sold them without any problem.

If you come clean to your girlfriend and her best friend, and then go to the Police with them, they may take pity on you and they will be able to get the Pawn Shop to return you the rings(if you return the money they paid you for them).

Answer 2

tough

it was never your ring, what you should have done is handed it over to the Police.

you compounded by loosing the reciept.. mind you if the pawn broker was legit they should have some paperwork at their end which would allow you to redeem the goods at their nromal rates

it sounds to me as if the pawnbroker is trying to squeeze you

so you have two choices in my books...... duck and prentend it didnt happen and hope the Police don't get involved

or face up the music admit what you've done to your girlfriend and or the Police

Answer 3

You sold a £500 ring for £45.

You deserve what you get,

You should have handed it in to the Police and if it wasn't claimed you could have had it after a set amount of time has passed.

If your girlfriends mate tells the Police that it was lost/stolen and has now been seeen for sale in the pawn shop and can prove its hers she can claim the ring back.

Though this will now make you a criminal because you were greedy  and didnt hand it in.

Answer 4

Stealing by finding is the verdict.

Answer 5

Pawning must be the worst way to sell anything of value. Pawning is meant to be a way of borrowing money (expensive though THAT is).

At the moment you are technically the thief since you sold something not belonging to you.

You have a choice: fess up. Or run the risk of being caught when the pawned items are found to have been pawned by you (they did take your details when you pawned them, didn't they?)

Answer 6

Tell the friend what happened.  You weren't being greedy.  I'm sure your girlfriend knew that you found the rings, and I'm sure she knew the friend had lost her rings.  

This is actually the fault of the friend.  If the rings were that valuable, why wasn't she more responsible?  If you lose the girlfriend over this, you won't have lost much.

Answer 7

just dont say anything

Answer 8

You did steal them. You did not wait an appropriate period of time after putting up flyers and profited from their sale. This is kind of a karmic balance for you and it sucks for you if you can't get them back - or have to pay a great deal of money to do so. You may feel it's partially her fault for losing them but, really, if you'd turned them into the police station when you found them (where they'd have taken your name and given them back if no one claimed them within the period of time) - you'd have avoided all of this.

Answer 9

Sorry but your story doesn't add up. You just happened to find 2 rings in a car park belonging to your g/f's friend, bit much of a coincidence and then you loose the pawn ticket. Nobody can tell you what to do but if you have a conscience then you know what you should do.

Answer 10

HI Tom,

You, yourself cannot get them back.   You have to tell your girl friend and she will have to go to the police and identify the rings that were pawned.  It will all turn out to be a misunderstanding...  but the police can get the rings back for her.... YOU cannot do it, because they do not belong to YOU.  Only she can get them

Sorry, but you had better do the right thing .... or you won't be much of a friend...much less a boyfriend.

She will understand and thank you for being honest and truthful about this mistake YOU made.

Thanks for reading.  

Hope you will do what is right!!!

Answer 11

Tell her that she has obvsiously lost her rings - she should claim on her insurance.  The police can't do much.  

Answer 12

the thing is when you signed the form when you pawned the rings to start with you basically signed all rights away if you failed to pick them up in the time period you where given.i doubt it very much that you will be able to buy them back when they go up for sale as this is normally a closed sale for private buyer and not the public. if you go to the police and explain what has happened then you have to take the chance of them not believing you or it could go the other way and they could even help getting them back.  

Answer 13

This story doesn't add-up. You found TWO rings in a car park, pawned them and threw away the ticket, why did you  throw the ticket away?

Why should your gf suspect that you found them or had any dealings with them?

If you found them, and somebody knows you found them, you're guilty of theft by finding. If nobody knows you found them, keep quiet. Unless you're not giving the full story......