Left behind

Walked to a park with D in the large stroller. Upon there, D discovered a bicycle leaning against a slide. It was tiny with Harley Davidson and Hot Wheels logos, so it wasn't exactly cheap to just abandon, though the chain was popped.
I looked around and no one was near the park until an SUV pulled in. A girl and her daughter got out. I say girl because she looked in her 20s. Her daughter wasn't school aged but wasn't wearing pullups, could speak sentences and was a head taller than D.
She seemed to know the park from her attitude, so I asked if she knew if there was a lost and found(it's next a community center that is closed during school hours). She actually worked for the city, so she called someone and spoke with someone that she knew who worked in the park system. Case resolved, as far as I was concern.
I didn't ask if she worked there, but that's the sort of thing people ask me when I'm out and about shopping and such. People are either lazy or I put on a certain air about myself...
Meh. People are mostly just stupid.
If I had taken the abandoned bike home and posted on Craig's List, I could have gotten an easy $25. Would that be considered stealing?
When I was younger, I used to be observant of unattended items of value and take them. Only a fool leaves a textbook in an empty room when that textbook can be sold for $40. I sold a few books in my day, and a couple I didn't feel cheated when doing so.
Sure those instances were acts of stealing, but I rationalized that if I didn't take them then someone else probably would. It also provided a service of warning against future foolishness. Stealing was rather enjoyable. I should probably feel shame, but I rationalized well then and what was done is now in the distant past.
As an adult, I'm not blatant about theft, I make an effort to do right but abandoned is abandoned...