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› Forum › THE LOUNGE › Had my phone stolen today …
What is wrong with people? I was at the CT labor department for some mandatory orientation thing to their unemployment services (which took me an hour to get to in the pouring rain). I reach down for my phone and text something during a break, then put it back. 5 minutes later I reach for it again and it’s gone. The people around me help me look for it, but it’s clearly not in my purse anymore. I realize the guy sitting directly behind me has just gotten up to leave, so I go into the lobby to look for him. There’s a cop on duty there (thank goodness) and I ask if he noticed the guy. Then, 5 seconds later, the guy walks out of the bathroom! He was so stupid he didn’t even leave the building after stealing my phone
So the cop questions him, clearly knows he’s guilty, tries to frisk him, the guy gets belligerent, the cop puts him in handcuffs (with some difficulty) and slams him against the wall. I felt really uncomfortable watching all of this. Finally I do get my phone back and have to make statements to everyone. Ugh. So not what I was expecting when I showed up for this thing. I just wanted to be bored, fill out some paperwork, and go home.
At least I did get my phone back! I realized I’d much I’d rather have my wallet stolen than my phone – much easier and cheaper to replace the few credit cards and whole $10 in my wallet.
What is wrong with people? Who nicks a phone like that in a room of 30 people? Is it really worth being arrested just for a phone that you could sell on the street for $75?
That is so annoying! I’m glad you got your phone back though! At least he got caught too!
Yeah, though I do feel slightly bad that this obviously unemployed guy (we were in a seminar about unemployment after all) now has to go down to the police station. What would happen? A fine? A night in jail? I have no concept of this kind of thing. I guess I shouldn’t feel bad … he made the choice to steal something with a cop standing 40ft away!
That’s almost four hits of Crack there. Yes, it is worth it to people and some addicts aren’t too smart about things.
I’d also check the call log and see if he made any calls while he had the phone – could probably those numbers over to the police as well.
I’m glad you got the phone back, though. –Must be drugs people are taking; kind of pathetic to be a thief and yet not even going about it stealthfully…
Mark and Petzy, I think you’re both right about drugs – when he was with the cop there was absolutely something off about him and I think he was on something at the time. I’d imagine that gave him the incentive to steal something just a few feet away from a cop. Oh, and to stop and use the bathroom before leaving with the evidence ::rolls eyes::
And I did check the call log, on the cop’s suggestion actually, haha. It seems like he turned my phone off right after he snagged it because it was off when I got it back and he hadn’t made any calls or done anything to it.
That’s one for the stupid criminal news blog right there. Jeez….
lad to her you got your phone back. I just got myself one of those GoPhones for Xmas but haven’t had the opportunity to use it yet, since it’s supposed to just be my emergency phone for town trips. Even though it’s not worth much, I’d still be hacked off if someone tried to lift it off me.
So since I am going in this week, thank you, I will keep a tighter grip on my mobile while I’m shopping because of this post.
HE turned it off so if you tried to call it then it wouldn’t ring and he be caught. I am so glad he was caught anyways.
To me there is no point in stealing a cell phone. Obviously you can’t keep it cuz your friends would be calling you on it. So dumb. Good for you you got it back and he got arrested.
You know this particular post i just had to respond to. I work for a cell phone company in a store location and i have a good number of people every day who come in and say their phone is stolen and then are mad at me because I can’t give them a free phone. Anyways, thats not the point of this post, the point is I also have a lot of people who come in and try to activate phones that they bought from “some guy” and are mad when i inform them it is on the “lost/stolen” list and cannot be activated. Its nice to see one of those “some guy” getting caught for it and hopefully punished accordingly. Good eye on catching him and getting the police involved. Most of the time I see teenagers with stolen phones while they were in school and I even have a good number of teachers coming in saying their phone was stolen at school. What has this world come to? It’s not like they can use the phone and it’s not like they are not going to be figured out eventually. Anyways, glad your phone is back!
This last post actually reminds me of how my father in law found a lost cell phone a long time ago, and then just held onto it, which we thought was silly since he couldn’t use it.
I didn’t understand why before (probably because this was back in the day when a cell phone looked like a walkie-talkie-and most likely had less security features) but still…..
People do weird things.You can see how they just aren’t thought through well, (even if they aren’t druggies…oh and BTW Mark how do you know the cost of a cell phone in crack?? Hmm???) and that’s lucky for the rest of us.
Glad you got your phone back! People amaze me with their stupidity – Daily!! I work in an ER…..nuff said!! Yeah I would rather have my wallet taken than my phone too. I learned at work when I was younger – someone took my money out of my wallet that was for my phone bill (before cell phones) and I went to pay my bill after work and much to my suprise, NO CASH!! I knew who did it but nothing was ever done. So now I carry $5 bucks and keep my cell phone on me.
Posted By MimzMum on 01/25/2010 09:34 PM
oh and BTW Mark how do you know the cost of a cell phone in crack?? Hmm???) and that’s lucky for the rest of us.
My girlfriend’s phone was stolen once. We used their GPS system to located it within 100 feet of where it was, which was in the heart of San Francisco’s Crack Central. A homeless person, whom I paid $40 to check the garbage bins (and he called me later to let me know he didn’t find anything) told me how much a high end phone could go for. The dealers use the phones until they’re cut off. That way, they can’t track the phones back to them. Basically they get the call on one phone that leaves a message. They then return the call on another phone and if confronted about the original call to them, they can claim that they don’t know what happened – some other guy gave out their phone number to hassle him.
I just remembered a story a friend told me a few months ago. She lost her phone at a bar or something, and someone picked it up. She called her phone to find out who had it, and the guy told her that he was planning to sell it for $50. If she wanted it back, she would have to pay $50!!
She did end up paying it, because it was her phone, and because it would’ve cost her at least that much to replace. So ridiculous though! What is the world coming to?
I haven’t heard from the police, so I assume I don’t need to make a statement or anything. I still wanna know what’s going to happen to this guy! Even if he only had to pay a $200 fine, he’s much worse off than he was before he tried to steal it. All this for a phone … I do have a blackberry, but I can’t imagine you can sell it for more than $50-75 because of all the issues with reactivating it that katiep mentioned. So stupid!
I’m glad you got your phone back! My phone is about 10 years old so it’s worth nothing except for the phone numbers I have in there that I have no idea what the actual phone number.
I would definitely rather have that stolen than my wallet. Yeah, you could call and cancel the credit cards but what a hassle that is.
I work in insurance and I’m amazed what people leave in their cars to get stolen (I know that is not the case with you of course). But don’t leave anything in your car and if you do, leave it in the trunk. I don’t advise that you even leave it in the trunk and of course if you have an SUV there is no trunk. If you do, you know you are asking for it to be stolen.
Mark, that’s crazy! I assumed they would sell stolen phones – I never thought of using them as a free way to make untraceable calls for drug dealers. Now it makes more sense why the officer had me check the call log. Especially because I was in a large-ish city (for CT standards) and I’m sure they have a lot of drug problems. I’m so used to my little town where even the “projects” aren’t that bad (I would know, I live across the street from them).
Sarita, I know so many people who have had cars broken into. I always take my GPS out because I know those are popular to steal. I even know a girl who had her car broken into because there was a mark on her windshield where the GPS suction cup thingy had attached. She was smart enough to take it down, but the thief was smart enough to look for that mark and know she had a GPS somewhere (she had left it in her glove box). So I never use those GPS holders.
I also work with someone who had her car broken into around Christmas in our work parking lot. We were traveling and she had left her car at work overnight, and someone broke in. They left her cds and $300 golf club, but took the size 16 shoes she had bought for her boyfriend Haha. She always said she’d know who broke into her car when she saw them wearing gigantic sneakers. They beefed up parking lot security after that.
Jeez, what horrible stories! *shakes head*
It’s funny, I always felt totally safe in SF when I was living down there. I preferred it to LA, which was my best friends’ favorite city. I used to take vocal lessons in the Haight from a pair of ‘gentlemen’ and I and the other club artists would leave there at 2-3 AM after a practice and I’d have no worries walking by myself to my car down the block and driving back down to Los Altos. Man, those were the days…
Up here, during the winter, you go into the store leaving your car running (or at least plugged in to keep the engine alive) and it used to be, you could leave your door unlocked as well and all would be where you left it when you came back. That’s because there used to be an unwritten ‘code’ up here that, “Hey, it’s -40 F, don’t you TOUCH my car or it’s contents, I’ll be right back.” But these days you have to lock it and set the alarm and I can’t tell you how many times in recent years, even with the kids being grown up and all, that I felt totally unnerved about leaving THEM in the car as well if hubby and I just had to dash in somewhere. Car-jacking may not be as prevalent here as in the 48, but it does still sometimes happen and I would be so scared for my kids.
Of course, if either of them return to the states to live, they’ll be totally unprepared for the ‘realities’ of life down there. It’s really different in Alaska, where a bit of the old pioneer mentality still gasps it’s last breaths.
I did notice that too when I was up there a few years ago. Alaska seemed so laid back and easy going, most of the people that lived around where I was staying didnt even lock their doors at home when they went out. Here we lock the door even just running to check the mail!
Yeah, the only thing (almost) that threatens you here really are the mozzies in summer, who will leave you a dried up, bloodless husk by the side of the road in a heartbeat. 0_o No sense of honor there. xD
We’ve actually got gang activity up here now, which wasn’t really going on even 15 years ago.
Gangs in Alaska… drive by snowball fights? Vandalism via snow angels in the yard? hehe
Oh seriously…lolz.
Nah, we’ve got drive by shooters and taggers up here. I think they tried to take a cop out in Anchorage last week. 0_0
Ouch that sucks Alaska was always so peaceful
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