Do I have any recourse for stolen cabinets?
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I am afraid the only recourse you have is asking around about your cabinets (it is possible someone living nearby took them, thinking they had been abandoned). If you're able to locate the cabinets, it is possible the person might give them back when you explain you hadn't intended to throw them away. I don't think they were 'stolen' technically, since the person who took them probably thought they were put there to be thrown out.
Then again, you might want to think about this another way. You were going to give the cabinets to charity, right? Well, maybe this was God's way of getting those cabinets to the person who needed them most. Someone who went to the trouble of transporting away heavy cabinets probably really needed them and will put them to good use. If the disappearance of your cabinets was God's will (and what isn't?) then you can feel better about the whole situation. On the other hand if you aren't a believer, then just be content that someone who needed them got them. You were going to give them to charity, and in every practical way YOU DID.
