Can anything be done..

[Expediency]

Thread just took a turn for the classic. Glad I kept reading.

That said, If someone is walking along the back roads of Norrath, and they find an abandoned item with no one standing over it, Why would taking it be stealing? Unethical maybe, but criminal? GMs are far too kind on this, if you drop it on the ground, you abandoned it and Prexus put someone else in its path.