don't ever steal a sidekick

[benvh]

http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

This guys's sister lost her T-Mobile Sidekick in a taxi. The folks who found it, instead of giving it back, decided to USE it instead... thus providing evidence of the theft. Instead of sucking it up, he decided to make the thieves really famous: by locating their MySpace info and publishing all the pictures they took with the Sidekick... Now the guy's famous... Website got 400000+ hits within 24 hours, and gotten at least six radio interview requests... and lots of helpful citizens offering to take care of the problem.

[jwdd27]

The fucking stupid bitch shouldn't have left a $400 piece of kit in a taxi. Hope they don't get it back.

---This was posted in the Interesting News thread earlier, further proof that hardly anyone reads the Sticky threads - we should get rid of them.

[mkl]

"The fucking stupid bitch shouldn't have left a $400 piece of kit in a taxi. Hope they don't get it back."

Yeah! Damn right. I *hate* people who make mistakes. And how about people who have accidents? Why don't they just *not* have accidents?

[jwdd27]

Originally Posted by mkl

Yeah! Damn right. I *hate* people who make mistakes. And how about people who have accidents? Why don't they just *not* have accidents?

It wasn't a mistake or accident, it was pure carelessness.
If you can't take care of your possessions it's pointless bitching when they are stolen, that's all I'm sayin'.

I suppose it is quite impressive how much info they've got on the thieves, but it's getting blown out of proportion and a couple of petty criminals from Queens are gonna become (in)famous. I bet if they played their cards right they could end up making money out of their notoriety, but they don't seem too smart.

[mkl]

"It wasn't a mistake or accident, it was pure carelessness."

Carelessness is a whole nation going to bed every night without brushing their teeth. Dropping a cell phone in a cab once is just an accident.

[jwdd27]

Originally Posted by mkl

Carelessness is a whole nation going to bed every night without brushing their teeth.

LOL

<-- goes to brush teeth -->

[teerts]

Originally Posted by mkl

"It wasn't a mistake or accident, it was pure carelessness."

Carelessness is a whole nation going to bed every night without brushing their teeth. Dropping a cell phone in a cab once is just an accident.

Well done.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by benvh

http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

This guys's sister lost her T-Mobile Sidekick in a taxi. The folks who found it, instead of giving it back, decided to USE it instead... thus providing evidence of the theft.

How is that theft? They just found it, right?

[william]

Originally Posted by Rick

How is that theft? They just found it, right?

And so we see how slowly but surely ethics leach away from modern society.

[Jwillie73]

Like I saw in one of the stories regarding the ethical concerns revolving around the story.. If you find something that contains information about who the owner is or how to contact them - A wallet with a driver's license, a cell phone, etc. - you should take a few minutes out of your life to make an attempt to contact that person and let them know about it. On the other hand, if you find loose cash or something which has no way of being traced back to an owner, its fair game.
I guess you could argue that you should follow stricter guidelines like turning the cash into the police for the 30 day minimum and if nobody claims it, you get it back, but I'm not sure a whole lot of people would go that far. I wouldn't have trouble sleeping at night if i kept 100 bucks I saw flapping around on the street.