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How Not to Steal a Sidekick
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.
Did a subscriber get a look at the page [before it disappeared]?
That website was running on the stolen Sidekick, you insensitive clod!
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The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but diggers can beat the rush and see it early!
I'm not sure where the SideKick is, but the fat dude in the pictures needs to hop on that exercise bike out on the porch.
EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
at its finest. "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" awesome.
as leno would say, What doi love? STUPID CRIMINALS. People like this exist simply for the amusement of the rest of us.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
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I was watching a police videos show the other day and they had a segment on a copuple of teens who were drving around some town at night with paint ball guns and doing "drive bys" on unsuspecting pedestrians. And to top it all off they were video taping the whole thing and had lots of colourful narrative to go with the action.
This all came to an end with their last victim who they "shot" in full view of a police cruiser (which you actually see on the tape)
Man my jaw dropped. I was astounded at their level of stupidity.
Mind you the Dumb and Dumber bank robbers in Denver made me laugh my ass off as well. Although not in this article, I do remember that they were caught with pictures of themselves in "gansta" poses hlding their "loot"
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
I'm so removing you from my top 8! GRRRRRRRRR
Honestly now, what do you expect? /*ducks
1. Find some partners to "steal" your sidekick.
2. Create a story about how they are ethically challenged.
3. Crow about how you had to buy another one and these people are bad.
4. Reluctantly put up a Paypal account to collect money for "incurred costs".
5. wait for the naive techno fans to queue up to "help the cause".
6. Profit!!!
Assuming 2000 people give her $1 and 6 other people involved, now everybody has free sidekicks!
Hey, that's better than most mid 90's internet startups!
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
That just gave me a wonderful idea for my Slashdot sig. I should be accepting PayPal donations for all the lost work /. has resulted in.
i like that you stole text from an article on theft :D lol
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