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True story, bro!

CrimsonToker

CrimsonToker

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I am currently walking home from work, takes about an hour. And right after leaving my work, im walking along, and when i look down at the sidewalk, i find this phone! I just ground scored a galaxy s5, in great condition. With a 64 gig card. Somewhere out there, someone is having a worse day than me..
 
AMOCO said:
Cool find,But when the person that lost it realizes its gone.It will be put on a lost/stolen list and deactivated.Then it will be useless.And you won't be able to activate it.
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Not only this, but the simple fact is that IT BELONGS TO SOMEBODY. How about instead of bragging about how you plan to steal/keep this "ground score", you do the civilized thing and contact the owner or carrier and try to get this person their phone back.
 
deacsrider said:
Why not do the right thing and try to find the owner? Put yourself in their shoes, wouldn't you want someone to try to find you should you have lost something?
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Lordvincent 90 said:
Not only this, but the simple fact is that IT BELONGS TO SOMEBODY. How about instead of bragging about how you plan to steal/keep this "ground score", you do the civilized thing and contact the owner or carrier and try to get this person their phone back.
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I agree,If I ever lost my phone I would hope that someone would try to get it back to me.
 
First thing i did when i picked it up was look under accounts, and there was no email, Facebook, anything attached. No contacts saved. Either someone wiped it or it was never set up. And being on the sidewalk in a spot with no businesses or residences nearby, i have no idea where it came from. So how am i then supposed to find the owner? Sd card is corrupted, so it's not like they are losing any valuable data, that already happened before i found it
 
CrimsonToker said:
First thing i did when i picked it up was look under accounts, and there was no email, Facebook, anything attached. No contacts saved. Either someone wiped it or it was never set up. And being on the sidewalk in a spot with no businesses or residences nearby, i have no idea where it came from. So how am i then supposed to find the owner? Sd card is corrupted, so it's not like they are losing any valuable data, that already happened before i found it
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If there is no indication of who owns it, the sensible, honest and morally right thing to do is hand it in to the police.
 
A person commits theft by taking when he illegally takes another person’s property and intends to deprive that person of his property. It generally does not matter how the property was taken.
Just went through this with a piece of equipment that was lost out of our truck. Guy finds it on side of road and sells it on EBay. We see the listing, report it to PD, he now has possible charges because he knowingly possessed property that was not his......
Finders keepers is no longer applicable past kindergarten.
 
CrimsonToker said:
First thing i did when i picked it up was look under accounts, and there was no email, Facebook, anything attached. No contacts saved. Either someone wiped it or it was never set up. And being on the sidewalk in a spot with no businesses or residences nearby, i have no idea where it came from. So how am i then supposed to find the owner? Sd card is corrupted, so it's not like they are losing any valuable data, that already happened before i found it
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All you have to do is call the carrier and they will pay to ship it to the owner.
The carrier will ask you for the IMEI number and within 10 seconds they know who it belongs to.

do the right thing!

you are just simply trying to justify keeping a $600 phone that belongs to someone else.

That puts you on my Ignore list if you don't turn it in.
 
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