Please dont judge me!....... Well go on then!

[freddielong]

IMO Theft pure and simple sorry it wasn't yours, a small crime but a crime non the less

lol Are you being sarcastic?

i would have bagged it aswell. Id say 99% of people would seeing a good ball that doesn't belong to the range sitting there. Exactly the same as picking up a lost ball out on the course.

No theft is theft I think the OP knows that hence the this thread trying to ease his concience.

And its not exactly the same as finding it on the course as you are paying to hire the balls, what would you do if there were ten of them in your basket (take all ten).

I suppose you are the sort of person who will then go and complain to the pro that the range balls are rubbish.

 

[madandra]

The golfing fairies were being kind to you, you took it, you'll use it and loose it .... same old same old !!!!!!!

 

[Wilts]

.....Id say 99% of people would seeing a good ball that doesn't belong to the range sitting there. Exactly the same as picking up a lost ball out on the course.

Great, everyone else does it so that makes it okay??

Watches & wallets that are dropped are fair game too? Lots of people just pocket those??

Most, if not all, ranges will have signs/ rules that prohibits users from removing balls from the range. Who would want the embarrassment of being caught lifting balls from a range anyway??

Righto, I'm off to rob next doors house, they've left the window open and if I didn't other people would do it!!

Ok is a golf club collecting balls from a lake (and then selling them)classed as theft as well?

 

[JustOne]

what would you do if there were ten of them in your basket (take all ten).

I suppose you are the sort of person who will then go and complain to the pro that the range balls are rubbish.

Yep.... and yep

 

[bluenose10]

No theft is theft I think the OP knows that hence the this thread trying to ease his concience.

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Lol are you for real. . . he picked up a golf ball!!! Ease his conscience. . . it isn't crime of the century and hardly worth bringing his integrity into question. Its not the same as robbing someones house at all. . . how things quickly escalate out of all proportion. . .

I would have nabbed it too by the way. . .

 

[freddielong]

No theft is theft I think the OP knows that hence the this thread trying to ease his concience.

Lol are you for real. . . he picked up a golf ball!!! Ease his conscience. . . it isn't crime of the century and hardly worth bringing his integrity into question. Its not the same as robbing someones house at all. . . how things quickly escalate out of all proportion. . .

I would have nabbed it too by the way. . .

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With the risk of repeating myself Theft is theft why else would he have started the thread he wants us to agree with him and tell him its ok - I dont agree sorry for having morals

 

[Robobum]

I couldn't give a toss if you take it, or take all the range balls whilst your at it. Just try to come up with a better reason for taking it then "everyone else does it" or........keep it to yourself unless you were secretly after some attention.

Jeez, "everyone else does it!?" that's an excuse straight out of kindergarten.

 

[Wildrover]

.....Id say 99% of people would seeing a good ball that doesn't belong to the range sitting there. Exactly the same as picking up a lost ball out on the course.

Great, everyone else does it so that makes it okay??

Watches & wallets that are dropped are fair game too? Lots of people just pocket those??

Most, if not all, ranges will have signs/ rules that prohibits users from removing balls from the range. Who would want the embarrassment of being caught lifting balls from a range anyway??

Righto, I'm off to rob next doors house, they've left the window open and if I didn't other people would do it!!

Theft of range balls I agree is wrong, lets face it who would want to. The thing is if you find a prov1 in your basket then that is NOT a range ball and has not been purchased by, and therefore is not owned by the range. I believe that this is just the same as finding a ball on the course which I presume Robobum hands back in to the pro shop for the original owner to claim. Come on get real, you would, indeed should, liberate this ball and use it for the purpose it was intended. You can't compare this to breaking into someones house, it's ludicrous.

 

[Dave3498]

I would have written my name on it with my new marker pen, and thrown it over the fence at about the 360 yard marker as I was leaving.

 

[Wildrover]

I would have written my name on it with my new marker pen, and thrown it over the fence at about the 360 yard marker as I was leaving.

Classic.

 

[bobmac]

I would have written my name on it with my new marker pen, and thrown it over the fence at about the 360 yard marker as I was leaving.

Next to Mono's?

 

[Gustavo]

I would have written my name on it with my new marker pen, and thrown it over the fence at about the 360 yard marker as I was leaving.

Very Good

 

[freddielong]

Come on get real, you would, indeed should, liberate this ball and use it for the purpose it was intended.

I like the way this has become some noble rescue from the clutches of the evil range owners - No I had to take her pension officer she was only going to save it or spend it on food, I was liberating the cash.

Theft is theft - don't take what is not yours are you an MP by chance

 

[Wildrover]

Theft is theft - don't take what is not yours are you an MP by chance

Yes theft is theft I agree, the point is the ball does not belong to the range, it is lost. If it were a wallet that was lost then I would return it as chances are there will be means of id and contact details in there. Short of printing your name, address and phone No on every golf ball you can't return it so I would have no qualms about using it. Once again you use a ludicrous example about mugging a pensioner that bears no relation to the original post whatsoever.

 

[mono217]

Its already in my bag LOL withouty a doubt id keep it.

 

[freddielong]

Theft is theft - don't take what is not yours are you an MP by chance

Yes theft is theft I agree, the point is the ball does not belong to the range, it is lost. If it were a wallet that was lost then I would return it as chances are there will be means of id and contact details in there. Short of printing your name, address and phone No on every golf ball you can't return it so I would have no qualms about using it. Once again you use a ludicrous example about mugging a pensioner that bears no relation to the original post whatsoever.

I didn't use the first ludicrous example just the second and I didn't mention mugging but the point is they are both theft.
Who are you to say what belongs to the club or range - I would say anyone who purposly hits one of his own balls down the range is donating it to the range as the know they cannot retrive it. IMO it does belong to the range.

 

[Robobum]

Using your theory Wildrover - The range has "found" this ball and because it is "in their bag" i.e being used by them for their own purposes it is now theirs. Anyone then "liberating" means it is petty theft, pure & simple.

 

[Wildrover]

Not all these balls are purposely hit down the range, as someone said earlier many ranges are at the side of the course and the balls are hit there by wayward shots on the course. Taking your idea further Robobum, does that mean any ball you find on the course belongs to the club so I assume you return it to the Pro / Secretary at the earliest oppurtunity. I'd love to see the look on his face if you did.

 

[bluenose10]

Come on get real, you would, indeed should, liberate this ball and use it for the purpose it was intended.

I like the way this has become some noble rescue from the clutches of the evil range owners - No I had to take her pension officer she was only going to save it or spend it on food, I was liberating the cash.

Theft is theft - don't take what is not yours are you an MP by chance

Lol Mugging a pensioner vs finding a golf ball!?!?! yeah very much the same thing

 

[Wilts]

Using your theory Wildrover - The range has "found" this ball and because it is "in their bag" i.e being used by them for their own purposes it is now theirs. Anyone then "liberating" means it is petty theft, pure & simple.

If this was to go in front of a judge - which is what it looks like your after - there is no way to prove that the ball belongs to the range, i would argue that it is possible that the ball (and for that matter every non range ball) could have been mine in the first place and that the range should have returned it to me? As it cant be proved that the ball definiatly was not mine in the first place i cant be accused of theft.

Anyway no-one would be mad enough to accuse me of theft of somthing as insignificant as this.

In hindsight puting my name on it and throwing it over the 360yard marker would have been a much better decision!