The reunion with my shotgun has been delayed. I got to the downtown OKC police station at 7pm, put a dime in the parking meter (just in case), giving me six minutes to get my goods and go, which I would have thought to be plenty of time for a quick pickup. However, after 30-minutes of waiting, I had to leave empty handed. THEY COULDN'T FIND IT! Grrr. So now I have to call them back tomorrow, ask them to look for it again, and then go back downtown once they say they've found it, even though they called me to begin with on Monday and said come and get it.
BUT, believe it or not, the fact that my firearm was lost was NOT the most unbelievable thing I heard while at the OCPD property management office. The person in line before me was picking up his recovered stolen goods as well, only one item was missing. It was something high-dollar, so he was told he'd have to go to "Pawn Court" to get it back. They said that because it was recovered at a Pawn Shop, and because that Pawn Shop had money tied up in the high-dollar item, he had to go to court so a judge could decide who got to keep the item and whether the Pawn Shop would get compensated or for their loss.
Holy crap! It's HIS merchandise! I was completely astounded at finding out such a crazy scenario to be possible. As a fellow burglary victim, I sympathize with the guy here, and am not quite sure how I'd react in that situation. One thing is for sure... they ought to consider adjusting their process to not return firearms at the same time they are informing someone of their non-right to get expensive items back to protect the profit of a pawn dealer.
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