It is common knowledge that anything you leave outside your front door is likely to be taken, therefore you do not leave anything of value or that you want to retain outside your front door.The boundary issue is important as by law I would assume that objects taken from your property amounts to theft and this may carry over to skips as well. The point of this website in part and that of freecycle is to keep good stuff out of landfill. Something few of us would argue against. I personally think that the unwritten rule of re-cycling items outside ones house and in skips should be applauded and encouraged as it benefits the environment, gets things re-used and also helps people that are less well off. The fact that the original author had left her buggy outside for long periods without it being taken points to the fact that there seems to be a moral code.........As for the driver of this van, I can only imagine some sort of public stoning be suitable.