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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. Subscribers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but diggers can beat the rush and see it early!

  2. D'oh by Blue6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. Conflict resolution by Space+Sku · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Conflict resolution by rindeee · · Score: 5, Funny

      This will undoubtedly replace "All your base..." for greatest cliche Internet tag line.

  4. Not that sort of sidekick, then by Captain+Zep · · Score: 5, Funny
    I thought this was going to be a story about Batman and Robin.

    Z.

  5. AOL Users by Frightening · · Score: 5, Funny

    Honestly now, what do you expect? /*ducks

    1. Re:AOL Users by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

      you think all the AOL users on slashdot are going to throw things at you? what would they throw anyway, promo CDs?

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  6. How to get free money by 955301 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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