Back to the thread - if it lands in your garden can you keep it??
Happened more than once in the US where the dropped part was offered up for a sum of money. In most cases the offer was declined and the Feds were sent in to recover the item only for investigation after which it was returned to the new owner who of course found that there was no market for it since it was no longer airworthy by itself.
One guy was incensed at this and made a museum piece of it in his front yard for all to see from the nearby road. I think somebody stole it a year later for their private yard-junk collection