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How Not to Steal a Sidekick

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quick-add-a-buddy dept.

timmit was one of many readers to point out the story of a stolen Sidekick, writing with this excerpt from the site: ""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 can sympathize, after someone with the address Rmluckyguy@aol.com tried to sell me back the Visor Deluxe stolen from my car last year in Philadelphia. I hope Evan has better luck.

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  1. Go ahead, knock yourself out. by DwarfGoanna · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As long as he never catches up to my favorite phone thieves of all time.

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    "You know why you do not see me styling wit my homies? Because I have no homies!!" -Mojo Jojo

  2. Biased and racist by stoyan · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It seems that the whole story is probably a rather biased account of what happened:
    1. As many have already noticed, the word "stolen" consistently appears on the page (URL, title, writing) but the Sidekick was actually LOST.
    2. We see a rather rude reply from the person that found it, but we do not know what preceded that. The author says that his friend "requested that the Sidekick be returned". Does not sound like she asked nicely -- you must ask nicely for a favor, even if you are a blonde white girl in Manhattan.
    3. The author is somewhat racist in his communication with the other party. "Let me tell you about a legal tenet called 'Caveat Emptor' it is Latin, it roughly translates to 'Let the buyer beware'" implies that Latinos know no Latin terms... Pardon the pun, I could not resist ;-)
    4. The story has factual inaccuracies. "My friend left her Sidekick II in a taxi inManhattan (where we live)" in the story and "On Jan 25th of this year, I moved to Miami, FL" in the "About Me" section are slightly different... By about 1,294 miles.
    5. The author spends an inordinate amounts of time and resources harrassing the people that found/bought the Sidekick. $300 are not worth it, unless you have no life.