Your animosity towards AS&M is unfounded. They did not steal the boat, there is a liability issue - but not negligence. How does Easy Limits know the boat was gone 3 days, and not a few hours? Why should AS&M give him a running motor? - the one he took for repairs was broken and I assume not running. Has Easy Limits contacted his insurance company on the 2nd loss? The whole thing sounds bizarre to me. Steal a boat, leave it along side the road but take the lights off, and call for it to be towed to an Albertson's? Sorry, you guys are in left field on this one, trying to raise stink to get your buddy a new motor for nothing.