Wild story out of Germany: a 27-year-old visited family in Romania and his car was stolen. He used a location service to learn that it was driven back to Germany, to a town not far from his home. So he went there and used his 2nd key to just steal the car back, without even notifying the cops.
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https://youtu.be/rXiC0KBbmFY
Currently, authorities are trying to figure out if he did anything wrong.
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https://www.mannheimer-morgen.de/orte/mannheim_artikel,-mannheim-27-jaehriger-stiehlt-sich-sein-eigenes-auto-zurueck-festnahme-in-mannheim-_arid,2306291.html?&npg
There was a court case a few years ago about a painting stolen from London, left on a train in France, then bought at an Italian lost property auction by someone who didn't know what it was.
But. One cannot obtain title by theft. Which means you can't take good title from a thief. So regardless of whether the buyer is acting in good faith, he or she doesn't have title.
It gets murky on other things, and when long time spans are involved. An example would be art works stolen in wars.
Vimes sighed. 'Mr Lipwig,' he said, 'there's no word for what you are.'"
---Terry Pratchett, Making Money
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