I spent a week in jail for finding a lost cellphone...legal recourse? [Thread Fail!]

[BoomerD]

Thanks for restoring the thread title!

It'd be serious lulz if one of the mods forwarded this thread to the D.A.'s office wherever the OP lives.

 

[ahenkel]

I think this thread serves as a very good lesson. The collective will very quickly shred your lies apart.

 

[skyking]

Like I said, because the owner is likely to check back even without word from you, the LEAST you could do was notify the management that you found it and leave your contact info, even if you aren't going to leave the lost item. That's what I do when I don't trust them enough to turn it over and I want to ensure that it gets back to the owner.



Dial a wallet's last call? That suggestion does not always work... even for cell phones! I've found them run dead or with damaged displays. My solution still applies.

Sure, bring a wallet to a phonefight.

my solution takes about a second *IF* it works. If not then your solution works for me too

 

[CZroe]

Sure, bring a wallet to a phonefight.

my solution takes about a second *IF* it works. If not then your solution works for me too

Hey, classy brought it. Not me. Anyway...

My best found phone story: wife and I are in Victoria BC for the first time. We decide to take our first bike taxi ride. I find the phone on the street as we get on board and immediately dial the last call. The person on the other end tells me the owner's name, and our taxi driver knows them! He was another driver. Some calls are made and he is waiting for his phone.

Are you sure the cabbie didn't just want you to trust him with the phone so he could keep it just like the three people who suddenly say that they lost $20 right after you say that you found a $20 bill? The context of his calls and what response you saw may make it obvious to you that he was telling the truth, but that's the first thing that ran through my head.

 

[skyking]

Are you sure the cabbie didn't just want you to trust him with the phone so he could keep it just like the three people who suddenly say that they lost $20 right after you say that you found a $20 bill? The context of his calls and what response you saw may make it obvious to you that he was telling the truth, but that's the first thing that ran through my head.

Did you read my story and comprehend it? I ended up handing the phone to the owner himself.

 

[CZroe]

Did you read my story and comprehend it? I ended up handing the phone to the owner himself.

Uh, no. Your story ended by saying that "Some calls are made and he is waiting for his phone." AFAIK, you left it at that, meaning he was likely waiting for his phone from his "friend."

Like I said: Obvious to you, but not to us, so I had to mention my thoughts just in case.

 

[Nik]

Don't say us. Say you. It was pretty clear, to me.

 

[IcePickFreak]

*standing ovation*

 

[CZroe]

Don't say us. Say you. It was pretty clear, to me.

Liar. You are saying this just because I countered your points about something completely unrelated in another thread (petty and stupid). If that were the case, you could point out exactly what gave you that impression in his original post.

I'm waiting. Here's the quote for ya:

My best found phone story: wife and I are in Victoria BC for the first time. We decide to take our first bike taxi ride. I find the phone on the street as we get on board and immediately dial the last call. The person on the other end tells me the owner's name, and our taxi driver knows them! He was another driver. Some calls are made and he is waiting for his phone.

It doesn't say who made the final calls (passive tense implies hidden complexity) or who it was left waiting with. Because the story doesn't end with him giving it to the owner himself, it implies that his involvement ended there... and yet you somehow finished the story and discovered the hidden twist ending?! AMAZING!

Besides, why can't skyking and myself discuss this without you deciding to attack me in another thread? At least skyking and I were civil.

 

[Ichinisan]

What's the point of keeping this thread open other then to inflict further ridicule on the OP?
I am starting to feel a little sorry for him. Not only is he permaban and unable to defend himself, more material that can be used by the law against him keeps accumulating in here. Is that what we want?

If you sympathize with the OP in this case, there is something wrong with you. Think of all the lives that have been negatively impacted by AndroidVageta.

 

[Ichinisan]

This a bit touchy for me. I don't know the guy as a poster, but I would imagine a lot of people would have walked out with the phone with the intention of turning it in. While he should have immediately took it to the front desk I am not going to pretend that many people would not have kept it to do exactly as he said he was going to do. I found a wallet in the parking lot one day and I did not take it in the store because I thought someone might steal something out of it, so I contacted the guy directly. I don't know about this one...........

He stole a friend-of-a-friend's iPhone 3GS at a party.

BURN, AndroidVageta!

 

[CZroe]

If you sympathize with the OP in this case, there is something wrong with you. Think of all the lives that have been negatively impacted by AndroidVageta.

And think of all the fallout good it is doing. There is now a chance that the "friend" can dump this loser and the "friend of a friend" can get justice for his stolen iPhone 3GS. It already halted the sale of most-likely illegally obtained Blu-Ray discs and may have even identified the buyer of the stolen iPhone 3GS. I say that we should push harder to make it happen.

 

[JEDI]

did you know if you put a 1/2 pound of medium rare ribeye in the microwave and nuke it for 15sec, it turns out to be meduim well.

YUM


This thread is now about non-bulk beef

 

[CZroe]

did you know if you put a 1/2 pound of medium rare ribeye in the microwave and nuke it for 15sec, it turns out to be meduim well.

YUM


This thread is now about non-bulk beef

There is something to be said for the flavor added by searing.

 

[classy]

He stole a friend-of-a-friend's iPhone 3GS at a party.

BURN, AndroidVageta!

I didn't know that............

 

[CZroe]

I didn't know that............

He admitted it in another thread that was uncovered and linked to in this thread. It truly is epic! The sad part is that there is Heatware for him on Dec 1, '09 for an "iPhone" sold here on AT FSFT.

 

[Ms. DICKINSON]

Gee, where's the common sense? Turn it in to the store's lost and found or go through the contact list and call someone closed to the person, "home, mom etc." That's the least you can do considering you don't trust the bastards working there. I didn't think you'd return it to the station or you would've gone through other routes before walking out.

Funny when I was younger, a cousin came over to our house and found a quarter and said , "founder keeper."

 

[JEDI]

Gee, where's the common sense? Turn it in to the store's lost and found or go through the contact list and call someone closed to the person, "home, mom etc." That's the least you can do considering you don't trust the bastards working there. I didn't think you'd return it to the station or you would've gone through other routes before walking out.

Funny when I was younger, a cousin came over to our house and found a quarter and said , "founder keeper."

he found a quarter in your house and said finders keepers!!?

so whats wrong w.that logic?

 

[rudeguy]

need some cliffs.


What got the OP banned?

 

[Heller]

need some cliffs.


What got the OP banned?

Here are the cliffs:

(1) OP & GF get stoned from weed, and go to WalMart at 2am for munchies
(2) OP's GF cashes welfare check and takes "forever" shopping for Doritos
(3) OP "finds" a phone on a shelf in walmart
(4) OP decides his stealing, stoner self is more trustworthy than WalMart employees and doesnt turn in the "lost" phone
(5) OP leaves walmart and goes outside, apparently for an hour
(6) Owner of Phone from #3 realizes its missing.. Calls the cops, who dust for prints and find the OP outside, stoned.
(7) OP Goes to jail.. GF realizes munchies > stoner theif BF and lets him rot for a week
(8) OP comes back to ATOT, bumps stolen Blu Ray thread a few times
(9) A week later, OP sobers up.. and posts on ATOT about how he was unfairly arrested for doing a good deed.
(10) ATOT picks apart OPs "story"
(11) ATOT reminds OP how he flaunted the fact he steals and is proud of it
(12) OP becomes butthurt, and reports everyone for being mean
(13) Mods enter thread and make fun of OP for being a stoner loser theif
(14) OP picks up ball and runs home crying.
(15) Hilarity ensues.

 

[Pliablemoose]

LULZ, awesome thread...

Thanks for posting the info about FS/FT problems Perknose...

 

[qliveur]

Posting in epic thread.

OP, you're getting what you deserve after all of the bragging that you've done about stealing, and most likely using this forum to fence your stolen merchandise. Hopefully you'll learn something from this.

My original advice still stands, though. Get a good lawyer. You're going to need one. I think that it's very possible that you've stolen (Blu-Rays?) from this Wal-Mart before and they were on the lookout for you. A good attorney might be able to successfully argue entrapment.

Otherwise, take your rap. One way or another, you've earned it.

 

[meltdown75]

I think this thread serves as a very good lesson. The collective will very quickly shred your lies apart.

resistance is futile

 

[mafia]

This should be stickied!

 

[BoomerD]

This should be stickied!

Stickied in the FS/FT forum...