The British law reckons everything washed up on the beach belongs to the Queen and you have to declare it.
Do you think thats right or FINDERS KEEPERS?
2007-01-22 22:14:25 · 10 answers · asked by Cassina R 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
yesterday i found a mobile phone on the beach, i don't think it was the queens.
if she stated that every coin found on the road was hers she'd very rich indead
2007-01-24 07:05:18 · answer #1 · answered by Hi Peepsies !!!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It belongs to the people who find it. There is no law against people taking what is washed up, as long as they let the authorities know. If the original owners want their stuff back, they have to find the scavenger and pay them money to get it back. The only stuff that belongs to the queen would be any valuable stuff like gold. And Whales.
2007-01-24 09:09:20 · answer #2 · answered by gr_bateman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that is correct, Under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, it is an offence for people to remove items from a wreck if they conceal or keep possession of cargo and refuse to surrender it, and that includes items washed ashore.
I think it is very sad to see people so desperate, that they need loot items from a wreck, I find them rather appalling.
Picking up items under normal circumstances, such as drift wood or the odd thing is no doubt ok, just find these looters rather sad and pathetic
2007-01-23 06:29:12 · answer #3 · answered by ArskElvis 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The scum on the beach in Devon are just looters - no different to robbing someone who collapses in the street or stealing from a storm-damaged house.
2007-01-24 08:19:43 · answer #4 · answered by citizen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are referring to the items washed up by the wreck in recent news reports its actually the owner of the wreck vessel that owns the cargo.
When it comes to the Queen, I dont think she should have the right to own items found on the beach. She gets paid by the state so she is the biggest dole sponger there is.
2007-01-23 06:22:29 · answer #5 · answered by Claire 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
this is more of a royal left over of the Victorian age~in America we can go and fight for as long as Mel fisher did and that was something like fifteen years to claim owner ship~i read true treasure for years and allot of English stuff is just waiting to be found
2007-01-23 06:24:22 · answer #6 · answered by bev 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can keep it but you have to declare it to the authorities, at least in writing.
2007-01-23 16:06:39 · answer #7 · answered by Plato 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is right.
It belongs to some one else.
2007-01-23 10:39:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
finders keepers, losers weepers
2007-01-23 06:21:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
if your caught declare it if not finders keepers
2007-01-23 06:22:15 · answer #10 · answered by fergie 11 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋