Bingo!!!bdsnooks wrote:Did the deceased have a family?
If so, would not they have a claim on personal property?
Just a thought----
We had turned in a vehicle after the lease was up...BTW, we'll never lease a vehicle again...I don't give a care what or how good the deal is...Never again...
Anyway, we cleaned out our posessions in the vehicle and took it back to the dealer to finish the deal...What we forgot was the fact that we left 6 CD's in the stereo system, that only after the vehicle was swabbed and sent to another state did we get a call from the dealer up in Flint, Mich. did we know that we forgot the CD's...They tracked us back to the dealer we turned it back into ourselves, and got a hold of us themselves, not the dealer we leased and turned the vehicle back into...
Long story short...The Flint dealership packaged up our CD's, and shipped them to us on their dime...No where (up there) did anyone just assume the CD's were theirs to decide what to do with, nor did our dealership (down here) even try to make it right, or at least call us to help figure it out...
If it ain't yours, turn it in and let others figure it out in cases like this...
Yes, there is a difference between CD's and firearms...Yet the situation is still the same...You cannot just arbitrarily decide (no matter who you are, or what your are charged with doing at your job) what you are going to catalog for return to the owner, or relatives in this case, and see something "interesting" and see if you can keep it...