This is really lame ....
I keep seeing people posting this nonsense. "If you find a lost phone, give it to the bartender! Call the police and report it! Etc. etc."
I don't know what alternate reality you people live in? But in most cases I can think of? #1. I wouldn't trust most bartenders not to just promise you they'll "try to find out whose phone it was" and just take the thing home that night themselves.
#2. If I actually called the police about a lost cellphone? They'd probably tell me just to keep the thing! It'd be like pulling teeth to get an officer to actually come out there and DO anything about it. They don't want to be bothered with something that trivial. (And who can blame them? Wouldn't you feel like an idiot if you made a cop drive out and waste an hour of his time after that filling out paperwork over a cellphone. When meanwhile, a REAL crime happened like an armed robbery or car theft - because the cops were all tied up and too busy to do a patrol around that area at the time?)
And earlier, someone actually posted some sort of "How would YOU feel if your phone was the one lost, and someone picked it up and resold it?" line. Well, guess what? I've actually had that happen before, with a Palm Treo smartphone. As soon as I realized I left it someplace? I was upset with MYSELF for doing it, but wrote it off as a loss and proceeded to look into my options for buying a replacement. You call it in and get them to shut it off so someone can't run up your cellular bill - and beyond that? It's just something normal people chalk up as a loss.
I mean, look - it's *great* if someone is honest and wants to "do the right thing" and return your lost phone (or anything else) to you. But the law comes down on the rigid and unrealistic side of things on all of this stuff. So yes, the "letter of the law" tells you any lost property that someone discovers and resells is "stolen". But how enforceable is it, really? The world generally believes in "finders, keepers" despite the law offering an alternate view. This stuff is a lot like speeding.... The posted sign may say "55MPH speed limit" but look around you while driving on that highway. Do you see everyone following it to the letter, or do you see practically everyone exceeding that posted limit, by at least 4 or 5MPH? People *expect* not to even get a ticket for "going only 5MPH over the limit" if you ask most of them.
I keep seeing people posting this nonsense. "If you find a lost phone, give it to the bartender! Call the police and report it! Etc. etc."
I don't know what alternate reality you people live in? But in most cases I can think of? #1. I wouldn't trust most bartenders not to just promise you they'll "try to find out whose phone it was" and just take the thing home that night themselves.
#2. If I actually called the police about a lost cellphone? They'd probably tell me just to keep the thing! It'd be like pulling teeth to get an officer to actually come out there and DO anything about it. They don't want to be bothered with something that trivial. (And who can blame them? Wouldn't you feel like an idiot if you made a cop drive out and waste an hour of his time after that filling out paperwork over a cellphone. When meanwhile, a REAL crime happened like an armed robbery or car theft - because the cops were all tied up and too busy to do a patrol around that area at the time?)
And earlier, someone actually posted some sort of "How would YOU feel if your phone was the one lost, and someone picked it up and resold it?" line. Well, guess what? I've actually had that happen before, with a Palm Treo smartphone. As soon as I realized I left it someplace? I was upset with MYSELF for doing it, but wrote it off as a loss and proceeded to look into my options for buying a replacement. You call it in and get them to shut it off so someone can't run up your cellular bill - and beyond that? It's just something normal people chalk up as a loss.
I mean, look - it's *great* if someone is honest and wants to "do the right thing" and return your lost phone (or anything else) to you. But the law comes down on the rigid and unrealistic side of things on all of this stuff. So yes, the "letter of the law" tells you any lost property that someone discovers and resells is "stolen". But how enforceable is it, really? The world generally believes in "finders, keepers" despite the law offering an alternate view. This stuff is a lot like speeding.... The posted sign may say "55MPH speed limit" but look around you while driving on that highway. Do you see everyone following it to the letter, or do you see practically everyone exceeding that posted limit, by at least 4 or 5MPH? People *expect* not to even get a ticket for "going only 5MPH over the limit" if you ask most of them.
Please Apple!! Sink the whole Gawker Network!!
Because they were dead wrong! The guy should have never removed the phone from the bar! Like the article said, you give it to the bartender... duh!!
In my eyes, it's like buying stolen goods.
