We are going to have an excellent evening

See this piece of stolen* equipment?



See this blank wall?


Anyone want to come over and watch movies?

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* It isn't really stolen if you** have had the following conversation with its owner, right? (I only heard one end of the call):

"Hi, I was wondering if you knew where one of your employees, [flatmate X], has gone... Yes, he's been missing for a few weeks now... Oh, you'd like to know where he is too? Well he took most of his stuff, so he probably isn't dead or kidnapped by aliens or anything, but I don't think he's coming back. The other thing is that he left a few things at our house that we think he might have brought home from work.... What sort of things? Some pretty expensive electronic equipment... You don't think you are missing anything? You might want to check... Yes, this is definitely not his personal gear. Not unless he has a habit of tagging equipment with asset numbers and "return to room number X" labels... You'll look into it? Okay, here are my contact details. Just let us know if it's yours and I'll drop it round to you."

That was several months ago. So it doesn't count as stolen any more, right?

** This is a hypothetical 'you'. Like, not me, but Weekend_Viking, who has now left town and passed the stolen goods on to a friend, on whose behalf we are babysitting it for a while.