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... you could do what this guy did.

Great story about this from years back http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

Where were the skyscraper leaping authorities for this guy? http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

It appears the NYPD (initially) failed to do their job properly, whereas the CA police department did. The argument from that can only be that NYPD should do more, not that CA police should do less.

That's the diff. When it's on my dime those niggas better be triangulating and renditioning the barbarian that stole my shiny Schwinn.

Sorry, I don't understand criminal class patois.

>>> stealing a cell phone *is* a crime.

Unless Apple were using only their stealthy and awesome ninjas to exact justice noone would give a hairy shit. Where were the skyscraper leaping authorities for this guy?

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

That's the diff. When it's on my dime those niggas better be triangulating and renditioning the barbarian that stole my shiny Schwinn.

Actually what it really means is that a few editors have amassed all the power (much like a few people amass all the power in the government). This problem has been around for a while. I personally stopped contributing after they kept deleting the the article on the stolen sidekick. Its been reduced down to just a few lines in some other article.

There is of course Deletionpedia, but it looks like their bots aren't always on top of the situation. Several of the articles I've tried to find there weren't saved in time.

It's a shame, since Wikipedia could be so much more that the narrow vision of the deletionists.

How many times do we have to see this story? There's the famous stolen SideKick from June 2006, then a few months later there was this story about a stolen phone that automatically mailed pics to Flickr, and on and on and on. This is becoming a cliche "stupid thief" story.

Perhaps a variation on this:

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

The length to content ratio of the Reuters/InfoWorld article is way too high. Here's a more succinct version:

The phone, the thief, his wife and a Chihuahua?
September 01, 2006
(Reuters) - "Me too!" said Web designer Ben Clemens.

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

A similar thing happened a few months ago when a T-Mobile Sidekick was stolen. Apparently, T-Mobile stores a copy of all of your data and photos on their servers so that if you switch phones you have access to all of your data and photos. The "thief" apparently wasn't aware of this and was soon identified because of the photos that she took of herself and her neighborhood. It's a long story, but an interesting read.

The article is a bit too late in relating to the USA. It's already been done here.

Stolen Sidekick

Remember the "How NOT to steal a SidekickII incident"?

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

It is still unclear how the laptop was recovered

Truth is, if I would find a usb drive, especially in an area that I work in, I would assume that it belongs to someone who is regularly in the area, and I would plug in the usb key to read the file that would be (at least on all of mine and my friends usb drives) on there called "if found.txt" obviously containing contact information of the owner. Its quite sad that we have such malicious people in our world that are willing to go to all lengths to make the world a worse place to live in. Having recently read the blog about the guy trying to get back his friends lost (and now effectively stolen) sidekick (http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/), I was able relate completely on the fact that I would try my best to return the lost item. This would include usb keys. Its a shame that now I would have to think twice before attempting to return someones lost property due to the security risk :-(

Has anyone checked out this guy's real website?

http://www.evanwashere.com/main.html

WOW. who is this dude?

linux:~ $ wget http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/robots.t xt
--01:01:43-- http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/robots.t xt
                      => `robots.txt'
Proxy request sent, awaiting response. 404 Not Found
01:01:44 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Maybe you should try stuff before commenting.

linux:~ $ wget http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/robots.t xt
--01:01:43-- http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/robots.t xt
                      => `robots.txt'
Proxy request sent, awaiting response. 404 Not Found
01:01:44 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Maybe you should try stuff before commenting.

What's more, if you go to http://www.evanwashere.com/resume/stats.html (the Stats link), it's a 404 page that looks like a typical domain squatting page. Lots and lots of links, plus a search function. Something doesn't smell right here.

And how does a 19 year old design "the market data and trading technologies for places like CIBC Oppenheimer, Bankers Trust, and on the floor of the American Stock Exchange"???

Looks kind of odd that the guy was already asking for donations on his website. http://www.evanwashere.com/donations.html

You might be right. From his main page: http://www.evanwashere.com/about.html


  I was born in 1975 in Manhattan and raised in Greenwich, CT. I left home at the early age of 14 and moved to NY. I lived in Brooklyn, Queens, Switzerland, England, and Israel...though not in that particular order. At the age of 19-20 I moved to Battery Park City in Manhattan and started working in Wall St. I lived there for the next 7 years designing the market data and trading technologies for places like CIBC Oppenheimer, Bankers Trust, and on the floor of the American Stock Exchange.

After surviving 9-11, I wandered about a bit trying to find myself. On Jan 25th of this year, I moved to Miami, FL. I still go back to NYC about twice a month for business and to visit friends.

Questions and Answers:

Question: Why do you have this website? Are you a narcissist?

Answer: Yes, I am actually. Also, a lot of my friends always want copies of the pics I take. This website makes it easy for them to grab them.

Question: What do you do for a living? Are you working now?

  Answer: Well, for the last decade I have worked in Wall St designing and supporting technology on trading floors. As of right now, I am co starting a technology consulting firm.

Question: What's with all these girls? Did you date all of them?

  Answer: Get your mind out of the gutter. I am a friendly guy and was able to meet a lot of great people. I will not respond to people who ask me who I dated and who I haven't. That's between me and the girls.

Question: Why do you have a whole section dedicated to parties?

  Answer: In the past, I was a party boy. I would go club hopping all weekend, as well as throwing my own parties. I would go from renting the penthouse to renting the entire top floor of a hotel in Manhattan. These pics are just the ones where I actually had 2-3 min to take pictures.

Question: Are you dating anyone now?

  Answer: Why? You interested?

Question: What's with the donation page?

  Answer: Camera's, web hosting, parties, etc don't come cheap. I have no shame in my game and am willing to accept any and all offers. I have had people in the past donate for parties. Well, now you too can have that honor and privilege.

Question: Can I meet any of these girls?

  Answer: What do I look like? A cyber pimp? Well, if you think you're all that, post a comment under the girl of your dream's picture with your e-mail address and sit by your PC and wait. You might just get lucky.

Question: What's with the private section? Can I get in there?

  Answer: Wow. You make no donations, yet you want to see my private pics. Contact me and we'll see.

Question: I can't think of any more questions right now. Can I e-mail or IM you?

  Answer: Sure. Go to the "contact" page on the top menu. I always respond back.

What _ a _ player.

Sorry, no porn.

You obviously didn't peruse the rest of the guy's site.

It's still up now... *blink*

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

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.

UPDATE #1: Thanx to some cyberwork of friends, found out they have a Myspace acct: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=us er.viewprofile&friendID=78722066

UPDATE #2: Some people are asking how we have their pics and AOL name. The way a Sidekick works, is that when you use it, all the data on it get's uploaded automatically to the T-Mobile server. So pictures you have taken, AOL names and passwords u have used, etc are all on the server. So when my friend turned on her new Sidekick and put her new SIM card in, all the data downloaded on to her phone. And that's how we have everything.

Some people also suggested this may be a ploy of some kind. If you notice, there are NO ads on this website. There are NO outside links besides the one to their MySpace page. I am only doing this to bring embarrassment to people who have no moral value in this world.

UPDATE #3: More questions answered. My friend left her Sidekick II in a taxi inManhattan (where we live). The person(s) that took it live in Corona Queens which is part of NYC. As for contacting the police, a NYPD officer has contacted me already (he found this link on a blog) and informed me how to handle this situation. My friend and I will stop by a police station tomorrow with the receipt and serial. Another friend at T-Mobile has already gotten us the records we need to prove that these people took the phone as well as the numbers that they called with it. Right now, I am more concerned about spreading this story. I want people to realize that what goes around, comes around. If you find a phone in a taxi or elsewhere.. it is NOT yours.. return it....and when u lose an item, then the same will happen for u.