Kryozerkia
09-06-2006, 01:21
How NOT to Steal a SideKick II (http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/)
SUMMARY: Some fellow is trying to help out a friend, who knows who has her cellphone. The cellphone went from simply misplaced in a cab to outright stolen.
June 6th, 2006: The people in the pictures below have my friend’s T-Mobile Sidekick. Instead of doing the honorable thing when finding someone’s phone in a taxi, they instead kept it.
I have found 8 cell phones in the last couple years in taxis. EVERY single one I have contacted the owner (by leaving a message on their voice mail or by answering their phone and telling their friends that I have the phone) and returned it promptly. When people have found my phone, they have also in turn returned it.
When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. There was no response. After a day of waiting, she had to go to the store and spend over $300 on a new Sidekick. When she put her SIM card in, she saw that the person(s) that had taken the phone had not only signed on to AOL leaving their name and password in the phone, but they had taken pictures of themselves.
I immediately contacted the AOL name: Sashacristal8905 and requested that the Sidekick be returned. I was immediately told that my “white ass” didn’t deserve it back. That she was not a “white bitch” (my friend who is a blonde white girl had pics on the phone this person had obviously seen) stupid enough to return a phone she found. After lots of threats, she said she and her boy would wait for me at:
Sashacristal8905,: i got ball this is my adress 108 20 37 av corona come n do it iam give u the sidekick so I can hit you wit it
So, anyways..this is my story. If you happen to know these people in the picture please let me know at: stolensidekick@gmail.com I am not going to go to the address posted above, because a.) Not going to waste my time going to a probable fake address b.) If it is real, there will be a physical altercation and I would probably wind up arrested which would do no good to anyone. I’d rather just embarrass the thief as much as possible. Teach them a lesson on the etiquette of returning peoples lost belongings.
Ok, so, there's the base story. I suggest that you click the link provided for the jist of it, and if you feel it necessary, post your thoughts here. Other sites and even this fellow's email have been flooded to the point of forcing a server shut down. His email and site are up though.
MY Thoughts
It seems that T-Mobile is using some advance technology to help cellphone owners track their phones, which is excellent idea, especially after you've spent about $300 on a new cellphone.
It is also common decency to try and make contact with the owner of the cellphone or someone in their phone list so that you can return it, since if you lost your cellphoen you'd want the favour returned.
Even if you don't intend to return it, you better make sure that you don't start with the threats because then you cross the line that divides legal beahviour from illegal behaviour that'll land your sorry corpse in a nice cold prison cell.
It seems that the people in possession of the phone are not only not going to return it for the reward offered, but resorted to threats when there was a reward. Further, the people in possession of the phone have been identified due to T-Mobile's tracking technology.
So... what do you think? (And yes, I recommend you visit the site, though avoid the MySpace links, since they'll burn your retnas).
SUMMARY: Some fellow is trying to help out a friend, who knows who has her cellphone. The cellphone went from simply misplaced in a cab to outright stolen.
June 6th, 2006: The people in the pictures below have my friend’s T-Mobile Sidekick. Instead of doing the honorable thing when finding someone’s phone in a taxi, they instead kept it.
I have found 8 cell phones in the last couple years in taxis. EVERY single one I have contacted the owner (by leaving a message on their voice mail or by answering their phone and telling their friends that I have the phone) and returned it promptly. When people have found my phone, they have also in turn returned it.
When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. There was no response. After a day of waiting, she had to go to the store and spend over $300 on a new Sidekick. When she put her SIM card in, she saw that the person(s) that had taken the phone had not only signed on to AOL leaving their name and password in the phone, but they had taken pictures of themselves.
I immediately contacted the AOL name: Sashacristal8905 and requested that the Sidekick be returned. I was immediately told that my “white ass” didn’t deserve it back. That she was not a “white bitch” (my friend who is a blonde white girl had pics on the phone this person had obviously seen) stupid enough to return a phone she found. After lots of threats, she said she and her boy would wait for me at:
Sashacristal8905,: i got ball this is my adress 108 20 37 av corona come n do it iam give u the sidekick so I can hit you wit it
So, anyways..this is my story. If you happen to know these people in the picture please let me know at: stolensidekick@gmail.com I am not going to go to the address posted above, because a.) Not going to waste my time going to a probable fake address b.) If it is real, there will be a physical altercation and I would probably wind up arrested which would do no good to anyone. I’d rather just embarrass the thief as much as possible. Teach them a lesson on the etiquette of returning peoples lost belongings.
Ok, so, there's the base story. I suggest that you click the link provided for the jist of it, and if you feel it necessary, post your thoughts here. Other sites and even this fellow's email have been flooded to the point of forcing a server shut down. His email and site are up though.
MY Thoughts
It seems that T-Mobile is using some advance technology to help cellphone owners track their phones, which is excellent idea, especially after you've spent about $300 on a new cellphone.
It is also common decency to try and make contact with the owner of the cellphone or someone in their phone list so that you can return it, since if you lost your cellphoen you'd want the favour returned.
Even if you don't intend to return it, you better make sure that you don't start with the threats because then you cross the line that divides legal beahviour from illegal behaviour that'll land your sorry corpse in a nice cold prison cell.
It seems that the people in possession of the phone are not only not going to return it for the reward offered, but resorted to threats when there was a reward. Further, the people in possession of the phone have been identified due to T-Mobile's tracking technology.
So... what do you think? (And yes, I recommend you visit the site, though avoid the MySpace links, since they'll burn your retnas).