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Legally, abandoned property (at least at common law, not sure about Washington state) is up for grabs. Claiming abandoned property is not looting and not only is there nothing wrong with it ethically or legally, it’s probably for the best that it is out to reasonable use.

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Yes, so are they abandoning them, or plan to pick them up and use them somewhere else?

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I don’t know anything about their actions surrounding the pull out from Seattle, and that’s what a court would look at. It does seem reasonable that if one were pulling out of a region and they had gps coordinates of all their assets, they would quickly collect them all. If they didn’t do that, that’s probably a strong argument that they were abandoned. If they are in the process of doing that and it’s only been a short period of time since they announced, that’s a strong argument that they’re not abandoned.

Really context pointing toward intent is king here.