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Originally Posted by BookCat
Besides which, the police have far more important things to do than bother about an old ereader; such as tracking down terrorists. (I'm in the UK; nuff said.)
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I know exactly what would have happened. If the police department bothered with it at all, the Kindle would have gone into storage and would have sat there for a year or two and then would have been sold in a police auction. And someone else would have gotten the blacklisted Kindle, sold to them by the police department.
A few years ago (pretty close to the same time I bought this Kindle) someone hacked my credit card. The bank was pretty quick to discover it, there wasn't much permanent damage done but still I was angry at the thief. I wanted to get this straightened out as quickly as possible, so I called the shop that sold the most expensive item (about $250 to $300). I told them that I was rightful holder of the card and that I didn't authorize the sale and they immediately reversed the charges. Also, at my request, they told me the name and address they had shipped the package to -- a well-to-do suburb of Houston. I called the bank to let them know that, if they told the police and had the package tracked to when it was delivered, they would probably be able to catch the thieves. ZERO interest. Didn't want to call the police. Nothing. I assume that if these guys were doing this to me they were doing it to other people as well.
So, in the real world, a $10 Kindle doesn't mean anything to a policeman. It would have been a waste of time to go to them.