A delivery truck mistakenly brought an 86-inch TV to his house. The cops took him to jail.

[corbe]

A delivery truck mistakenly brought an 86-inch TV to his house. The cops took him to jail.

By Dugan Arnett
 
15 hrs ago
 
A truck pulled up at Nick Memmo’s East Freetown house last month bringing an unexpected delivery — and a dilemma.


Nick Memmo in the living room area of his East Freetown home.© Debee Tlumacki for the Boston Globe

The delivery was a $2,700, 86-inch flat screen TV that Memmo hadn’t ordered. The dilemma? Whether to keep it or send it back.

But who are we kidding?

“It was like winning a scratchers ticket,” said Memmo, a muscly 35-year-old Massachusetts native who runs a construction management company. “I thought it was my turn to luck out on something in life.”

It soon became more complicated than that. In fairly short order, police would surround his house, take him to jail, and slap him with a felony larceny charge. The case has burned up the Internet ever since, a moral Rorschach test of where blame belongs. Even the law seems murky. But Memmo himself is quite certain: He didn’t steal anything.

“It’s not like I ran out of Walmart,” he said. “I didn’t set out looking for this.”

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[Sanguine]

Yeah, he should have sent it back.  Let the company know you have it and let them figure out if they want it back and if so, they have to put the effort into doing that.

[corbe]

   Court TV on in the background.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Sheesh. People wrongly delivery stuff to my house all the time. one time an exercise bike was on my front step (wrongly delivered).

But yeah, you can't keep it. That was dumb.

And I believe the cops, he probably did ignore calls and stuff.

[Gefn]

This happened to my mother a few years ago. There are two towns next to each other with the same street. She got a fedex package and signed for it. Opened it and saw it was baby clothes, and then realized the name on the package was not hers. She had to call fedex to pick up the package which they did the next day.

While the man might have thought the tv was a gift, he should have called the sender to check. The deliver truck would have come back.

[Cyber Liberty]

The crime wasn't having the TV delivered, as the headline suggests.  He cheerfully accepted something he know he didn't pay for.