But... he's a troll!

So I found a piece of gear at the base of a crag and it has the owner's name on it.  Normally I would try to get anything I found back to its owner.   So I look up this person on MP and find out that he's a well-known troll!   

So, should I bother to return it, keep it, or toss it?

Yes

Take it back to the crag and leave it where you found it.  

I'm assuming either Trevor or Tradi? You know, I see a lot of ill will towards them for their 'trolling' but they're in most threads and start a lot of their own on an already relatively inactive forum. This place would be boring without them.

This is excellent deployment of hook, line, and sinker, sir! Everybody dances for gear.

:O Not mine but I will take free gear. Do you guys honestly think a sport climbing gumby like myself would even go trad climbing in Colorado?

Colonel Mustardwrote:

This is excellent deployment of hook, line, and sinker, sir! Everybody dances for gear.

I think it turns out it was the gear's fault all along. The "well known troll" was just forced into a life of trolling by this cursed cam. Now that OP has it, he has become the troll. 

Spider Savagewrote:

Take it back to the crag and leave it where you found it.  

The LFT principle  - do not leave gear behind ;)

John Byrneswrote:

So I found a piece of gear at the base of a crag and it has the owner's name on it.  Normally I would try to get anything I found back to its owner.   So I look up this person on MP and find out that he's a well-known troll!   

So, should I bother to return it, keep it, or toss it?

Are we talking a Lord Slime level of internet troll, or some lesser amateur?

Diabolical ways to give it back:

Soak it in cheapo perfume.  Then give it back and say it was in the trunk of your girlfriend's car.

Soak it in Old Spice. Then give it back with a note written in elegantly cursive handwriting.

Microwave it.

Put it in a smoker and let it get good and stinky.

Keep it in the shed next to the lawnmower gasoline for a week.

Put it on the end of a long stick, then go scare a skunk with it.

Spider Savagewrote:

Diabolical ways to give it back:

Soak it in cheapo perfume.  Then give it back and say it was in the trunk of your girlfriend's car.

Soak it in Old Spice. Then give it back with a note written in elegantly cursive handwriting.

Microwave it.

Put it in a smoker and let it get good and stinky.

Keep it in the shed next to the lawnmower gasoline for a week.

Put it on the end of a long stick, then go scare a skunk with it.

You read my diary? That's how I always store my gear in cheap perfume +oldspice +in my microwave (it sparks real nice) however you are missing the first step. The first step is using it as toilet paper, no better way to mark it as your own and that is how I am assuming John identified it. 

You can choose to be spiteful or forgiving.You may choose to pass judgement,or perhaps cut a fellow human being a break.How many miles have you walked in their shoes?Just a thought.

Marvelous example of a subtle bit of trolling op!

Austin Shaverwrote:

I'm assuming either Trevor or Tradi? You know, I see a lot of ill will towards them for their 'trolling' but they're in most threads and start a lot of their own on an already relatively inactive forum. This place would be boring without them.

Like life would be boring without The Bachelorette, or NASCAR racing, or drunks puking outside a bar, or a MAGA rally, or Tucker Carlson.

WF WF51wrote:

Like life would be boring without The Bachelorette, or NASCAR racing, or drunks puking outside a bar, or a MAGA rally, or Tucker Carlson.

Dear God, give me that boring life …

Slather it in pine sap and send it back. 

Losers weepers, finders keepers.

post a photo and don't return it

Tell us who it is and then we can decide.

(he won't, because this thread is fake and he never found any gear)

amariuswrote:

The LFT principle  - do not leave gear behind ;)

What’s the LFT stand for?