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Finder of Lost Next-Generation iPhone Identified
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Toothbrush Bandits? This is an urban legend already!?
Loudoun 'toothbrush bandits' strike again
The toothbrush bandits were back on Saturday.
In the latest theft of high-end oral hygiene products from Loudoun County grocery stores, a man swiped four electric toothbrushes, whitening strips and a 12-pack of toilet paper from a Giant in Ashburn on Saturday afternoon, sheriff's spokesman Kraig Troxell said.
Investigators think the toilet paper could have been used to conceal the other items.
Officials said the man is described as white and about 6 feet tall with short brown hair, walked into the Giant about 2 pm and took the items. He was then spotted leaving in a blue sedan with Colorado plates driven by another white man.
The theft follows three similar ones at Harris Teeter grocery stores around the county in recent weeks.
The circumstances caused some to recall the urban legend of the Next-Gen iPhone Bandit. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/loudoun/loudoun-toothbrush-bandits-str.html
No, the implication is only in your somewhat stubborn mind. Sorry for moving beyond Hogan long before we even had his name, but in my view he's just the MacGuffin in a much bigger story, and wherever that story is, "I want to go to there" (sic).
The "thief"/"not thief" debate has now been treading water for something like 10 consecutive days, and I haven't heard any new arguments in 9.5 days. Knowing that "Oswald shot JFK/No he didn't" has been stuck in a loop for 47 years and people are still posting 46 year old arguments thinking they're brand new, while others shoot them down with the same passion they had 46 years earlier, I can sort of see where the "thief"/"not thief" thing is going. It may not last 47 years, but even 47 days would be a form of torture that makes waterboarding look like a nice hot bath.
He should of held out and made Apple tell him when the new MP is coming out LOL.
Or they could punish him by making him use an Iphone for life LOL.
Or they could punish him by making him use an Iphone for life LOL.
LOL! You got the "clean" version anyway.
I wonder if Chen has some unpublished photos of the iPhone prototype in, er, interesting locations that he'll send to Steve Jobs from jail.
(That would truly be the cherry on top of this fubar sundae...)
If someone finds a celebrities cell phone and tries to sell it to the National Enquirer, even they would no better than to buy the phone and publish what they find on it.
...BUZZZZ!! Oh, no, you've gone ahead and triggered theft, conversion, violation of the USTA, and conspiracy to violate the USTA. Thanks for playing though, and here's your own swell home version of our game!
You really don't want to go around trying to outsmart the law. A good guide is, if you wouldn't be proud afterward telling your mother what you did, then don't do it. I don't think Mrs. Hogan or Mrs. Chen is feeling all that great right now, and its not because they're legal experts. What these people wanted to do was wrong, and their mothers know it.
Has there ever been a point of history where the optimal priorities were in line with reality? Do you really think that there are so few bodies in enforcement that with one you cannot have the other? If anything it's good to know that someone on the payroll is actually doing something, at least that's how I'd feel
If things had been dealt with differently, parties privy to information not so eager to lambast the world with their newfound knowledge and disassembled toys and other parties not so eager to party too hard so as to dispense said knowledge and toys to the world, if things were different this would so, so be a non-story. But no amount of wishing ever made it so.
What has been reported has been telling and while I hate to say it or even agree with the term, it really does seem like some tech soap opera that we're tuning in daily to see who offed who, who got fired, what got leaked, oh-em-gee he did what to who again, and the cat is where doing what to who!? We're all eating it up, both sides and those reasonable folks who are just watching as things unfold. Each bit revealed says volumes, not just of this case but also I think as a reflection of our individual characters with every post we hammer out.
It's interesting reading what some of you have written.
No. The world is full of people who regular receive $5000 payments for stuff, and they're all here on this board.
C'mon! Don't tell me that outcome isn't worth more than half the useless nonsense the government usually squanders my tax money on.
Actually, they could just pass the hat around here, and I'd bet they'd get enough to take care of all of this. And if it turns out that Gabby Gizmodo was the organ grinder behind these monkeys, you'd raise enough to cover the appeals as well.
Oh, and Chen really is covered by the shield law, and the evidence necessary to convict him will be allowed anyway.
I disagree.
If you left your phone at a bar you would expect a decent person to either call you or leave it with the bartender.
He did neither. He contacted Gizmodo.
I'm willing to bet that he would have been richer and better off calling Apple instead of Gizmodo. Can you imagine how grateful they would have been to get a prototype back?
He knew he was in possession of something valuable and tried to cash it in instead of doing the right thing.
This is the type of guy who gets busted using money lost from the back of an armored car. Turn it in and you get a reward, cash it in and go to jail.
I have no sympathy for this devil.
I think this misses the point. Apple could just as reasonably said "thank you" and closed the door. It's not about where the money is, it's about where the ethics are...
I think, from my own experience, that a lot will depend on who these people turn out to be. If the jury thinks they were being cute, people who knew very well what they were supposed to do, but who wanted to find a clever way to benefit themselves instead, then I think they get convicted and I think the judge goes pretty hard on them.
From reports, Chen and Gabby particularly seem as if they could be the sort who could strike a jury the wrong way. With a capable prosecutor, juries have a pretty good opportunity to size up defendants, and in this case, they're all going to have to hit the stand. And it turns out that if you're on the witness stand for any length of time, it's surprisingly difficult to palm yourself off as someone you're not.
I would pay a tidy sum for a dedicated pay cable channel, this is all very entertaining. We are putting together a cast of characters that puts Kato Kaelin to shame. The bonus here is that no one died, so we do not have to feel bad watching it all unfold. Sure some peoples lives may get jacked up, but anyone that could happen to in this case, certainly had an opportunity to prevent it from happening.
In short, this is good wholesome entertainment.
Grey Powell
Brian J. Hogan
Sage Wallower
Jason Chen
Nick Dent
Gaby "COO" Darbyshire
Stephen "Chief Deputy District Attorney" Wagstaffe
also Starring Steve Jobs
Add in a whole host of lawyers that are just starting to trickle in..It is OJ without the blood. Perfect for the Internet