Hey Jeff, you comment about something being stole and gotten off of the base makes it theirs, reminds me of the official policy the Oklahoma State Penitentiary use to have, but in reverse. If you could get it to your cell, it was yours ! The state did not furnish wood paneling, but if they came into your cell and it was wood paneled, it was legal. If you got caught smuggling the wood paneling out of the furniture factory and attempting to walk it across the yard you got busted and sent to lockup, but once in your cell it was yours ! If the warden's window unit disappeared and turned up in your cell, it was yours ! That was back in the good ol days. Nowadays they are subject to put you on lockup for the things you actually are authorized to have . Another funny story about the good old days. There use to be a deputy warden who sold Mason shoes on the side. If he heard through the grapevine that you had done something illegal, like maybe making homebrew, he would spot you on the yard one day and whip out an order form for shoes and tell you to sign it so he could withdraw the money for a pair of shoes from your account. If you said, "Hell, I don't want any wing tip alligator loafers, why should I sign that withdrawal slip ?" he would respond, "Fine, then I'm going to lock you up for making homebrew!!". Surprisingly enough, the inmate bought the shoes ! I had so many pairs of ugly Mason shoes I could have gone into the shoe business myself ! And the deputy warden double dipped you. Pretty soon he would shake down your cell and if you had more than the allotted amount of shoes the rule book said you could have he would confiscate the shoes as contraband and sell them to someone else ! Yes indeed, he had quite a r! acket going there. Jack Childers in OKC