iPod touch My son's lost iPod was found and I see who has it

[macingman]

Long story shortened...

My son lost his iPod Touch at school. No one turned it in to lost & found so we assumed it was gone. I tried to use the "find my iPhone" feature and that did not work. We moved on.

Today, I logged into Game Center on my iPad and was surprised to see my son's handle in GC was changed and a picture shows up. It is some kid's self-photo taken in the mirror at the school's bathroom while holding my son's iPod.

My son does not recognize him (large school) but the device still does not show up in "FMiP" so he evidently was able to kill that but did not realize (or does not care) that GC is still active with me (his father) friended.

These are high school kids. My son's iTunes account is not compromised as far as we can tell because his balance is still the same as when he lost it.

BTW, he is gaming with it so the scores are going up

What would you do?

What do you think? I would say tell someone at the school with your proof. Your the parent you really should know.

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Well I realize you wrote a shortened story but it sounds like your son's iPod was "lost" as opposed to "stolen." Big difference in how it should be handled. If I lose something and someone "finds" it, they have every right to keep it.

They actually don't, if they don't make reasonable efforts to find the person then yes, it is theft.

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One thing to worry about is retribution. If the perp is a bad guy, then going after him might bring harassment and all that high school stuff. Frankly I just don't see bringing expensive little devices to a school and why they are even allowed. Got to be nothing but trouble.

I've only seen one problem with someone losing their phone at my school, most people are responsible.

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Good advice if you fancy a spell in prison.

Courts are so weak these days you could probably get out with a suspended sentence or a warning really.

 

[JBazz]

I don't understand waiting. If you have your serial number and receipt, take it to the police and report it stolen. Period. And don't bother with school security, go to your police precinct. File the report. Anything other than that is just playing games.

 

[wordoflife]

The only one "misguided" here is your reply. I never implied finders keepers is a law. Your third sentence doesn't even make sense - a lack of basic english skills - so I must laugh at your attempt to make a stand on this. Ha Ha.

Not everyone's first language is English. As long as the main point was understood - that is all that matters. Judging by the thread you're the only one who didn't understand it and the only one who sounds so ignorant that you probably can't speak anything other than English. Congratulations.

About the iPod OP. you should let it go. Schools let you bring them but that is why they have policies stating that they're not responsible. They don't care at all (why should they?) and theyre not going to waste their time finding it and let alone prove that it's yours. Then the other parents (perhaps they don't know better - or maybe they do) could start fighting and put the school in a situation theyd rather not be in.

There's an issue if a kid stole the iPod out of your child's hand but from what it appears your child was just being careless.

Keep expensive stuff at home or on your person.

 

[MTShipp]

I contacted the principal of the school and I have a meeting scheduled with him tomorrow to present my evidence. We'll see what happens.

 

[JAT]

If "find my phone" didn't work, this was a blatant conversion (theft). Not sure how so many posters missed that point. The perp apparently worked to block the owner from finding the device. That indicates a complete understanding of the situation, and willful actions.

Unless you left something out, OP, I'd say you have a great case. Good luck.

 

[RedCroissant]

If "find my phone" didn't work, this was a blatant conversion (theft). Not sure how so many posters missed that point. The perp apparently worked to block the owner from finding the device. That indicates a complete understanding of the situation, and willful actions.

Unless you left something out, OP, I'd say you have a great case. Good luck.

Agreed, not to mention the fact that there should be some iMessages in there and some contact info that was interestingly "ignored."

 

[Major.Robto]

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if it can not be found with "lost my ipod" then why is it updateing the scores?


I smell fish.

 

[RedCroissant]

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if it can not be found with "lost my ipod" then why is it updateing the scores?


I smell fish.

because find my iPod and game center are separate. You can have game center linked to your apple ID(which will send updates and invites whenever you're in a WiFi area). Find my iPod is different and linked with iCloud separately. You can see this by navigating to iCloud in Settings and see that there is no option for game center.

 

[Major.Robto]

because find my iPod and game center are separate. You can have game center linked to your apple ID(which will send updates and invites whenever you're in a WiFi area). Find my iPod is different and linked with iCloud separately. You can see this by navigating to iCloud in Settings and see that there is no option for game center.

The ipod will update on the location of it, to the icloud at any wifi point,

if this is set so, if you have the setting off your fked,

 

[RedCroissant]

The ipod will update on the location of it, to the icloud at any wifi point,

if this is set so, if you have the setting off your fked,

What?