Am I the only one that never even heard of "magnet fishing" before this?
Maybe...
One of the kids pulled a really nice BMX bike out of the river while he and a buddy were 'fishing' off a bridge in town. He cleaned it up, ran the numbers, and found out it was stolen. The police came to get it, and let slip that the previous owner had been compensated for the bike by insurance, and did not want it returned.
He'd come to collect it as abandoned for the police annual auction.
But I stepped in with the mention that he had salvaged the bike from a navigable waterway, and was entitled to marine salvage rights.
The policeman had no counter to that, and, for a day, I got to be a hero in my kid's eyes.
My boy got to keep the bike.