BBC TV News coverage of the Napoli disaster. Theiving looters are being called..

[itsmeNDP]

"beachcombers who have headed to the Devon and Dorset coasts hoping to salvage goods..."

thyll get done

I hope so cod. The perfect sentence - community service clearing up the beaches in this outstandingly beautiful part of Devon.

sadly its never as imgainative as that

There is a bloke being interviewed with a brand new BMW motorbike on the back of a trailer, quite unselfconscious about the fact that he has effectively nicked the bike.

Is it legally theft? I thought that there was a right to salvage things that are washed up from shipwreaks. It's not as though much of it could be sold anyway, who would want to buy clothes/goods that had been in the sea with assorted chemicals.

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

"Wreck is defined as anything which is found in or on the sea, or washed ashore from tidal water. All items which are raised, regardless of age or importance, must be reported to the Receiver of Wreck.

Finders who report their finds to the Receiver of Wreck have salvage rights. The Receiver of Wreck acts to settle questions of ownership and salvage.

This part of the 1995 Merchant Shipping Act is administered by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency through the Receiver of Wreck."

All the 'beachcombers' are beinga sked by police to fill in aform for the Reciever of Wreck as the enter the beach.

at Cod's knowledge of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995

quote was from receiver of wreck website

here

amazing eh?
theres oen act is it theft? thats like 1886

Is quite usual apparently, most fill in the forms and are never approached
No wonder they make the effort!
Would you not have trouble officially registering and taxing a motorcycle though...

ABH 1861

amazing isnt it?
#woudlnt get that in farking america

Bran clearly wishes she lives in the Scilly Isles where Michael Morpurgo grew up...
Really NDP

mopurgo
swwon
have just finished butterfly lion
ds1 wasnt listening as the twist int eh tale was rvealed

Really what ? The quote ? Yes absolutely. I have news on now. In fact I was so by the wording that I rewound the piece and listened to it again so I could transcribe here accurately.

not he fact that the ABH act is from
1861

Yes NDP. We make too much of our island heritage sometimes I think
Thought it was mostly nasty liquids on board

yes apart fom i had t o read the death twist bit THREE times to a half asleep d1 till the penny dropped
CLOT

lol @ clot.
Must get hold of butterfly lion. Clearly the book de jour for mumsnetters with 7 yo boys.

marina, she's carrying BMW car parts and bikes too

they showed a bloke this morning looking v pleased with his haul of steering wheels!

Oh, that explains it FIS. Had missed that. BMW. Irresistible to some I guess