Angry Rant....Cell Phone Thief

[Moostache]

Some sub-human piece of shit stole my I-Phone and my Blackberry out of my vehicle last night. The little fucking vermin hit several cars in my neighborhood and made off with my charging cable, the two phones and most importantly all of my content on the phone...

Everything is password protected and encrypted, so there is no chance of accessing it. If the future inmate even tries to access any of it, the phone will wipe its own memory after 5 failed attempts. I am however now without the photos that were stored on the phone and without the phone itself for business needs.

Son of a bitch!!!!!

What a fucked up way to start the morning and the work week.
I hope whoever stole these phones ends up being ass raped in prison. In fact, if I ever find out who did it and where they end up doing time, there will be cartons of cigarettes available to everyone on his cell block for services rendered in his misery.

GODDAMM!

 

[Selassie I]

Man that sucks.

It's crazy how attached we've all become to our electronic devices. I can still remember the days when there were no cell phones or Internet. Hahaha ... caveman days.

 

[fearsomefour]

Man that sucks.

It's crazy how attached we've all become to our electronic devices. I can still remember the days when there were no cell phones or Internet. Hahaha ... caveman days.

As a kid saying "I couldn't find a pay phone." was a legit excuse.

 

[Moostache]

As a kid saying "I couldn't find a pay phone." was a legit excuse.

LOL...so was "I didn't have a quarter"...until mom said "Then you should have called 'collect'!!" and grounded me anyway!!
Thanks for the laugh, I needed one this morning for sure!

 

[Dieter the Brock]

Unfortunately the universal rule is:

If you leave it in your car you don't want it

* this lesson is learned by young musicians who leave their instrument in thy car only to find them gone upon return

 

[Ramhusker]

Isn't there a service now that allows you to ping the location of the phone? I know my wife has something on my daughter's phone to show location. It also has a feature that allows you to emit a loud annoying alarm from the missing phone. Someone stole a phone at school here recently and it was found on a bus using this method. Kid just dropped it on the bus floor when it starting shrieking.

 

[Moostache]

Isn't there a service now that allows you to ping the location of the phone? I know my wife has something on my daughter's phone to show location. It also has a feature that allows you to emit a loud annoying alarm from the missing phone. Someone stole a phone at school here recently and it was found on a bus using this method. Kid just dropped it on the bus floor when it starting shrieking.

The battery was dead. I forgot to bring it in the house after I got home and the battery was already under 5%...unless the thief were to charge the phone and try to use it - and then they would have to guess the 8-character password in under 5 tries...after a 5th failed log-in attempt the phone literally erases itself...so even if I got it back after that it would still be worthless...

I don't even care about the phones as much as the pictures I had on them. The I-phone was an old 3G model and out of service for 3 years. It was barely functional as an I-pod for the car, but I left a bunch of family vacation photos on it, some of which did not get transferred or downloaded. The Blackberry had images from my research on it, but most of that was backed up on the company servers before this...

Unfortunately the universal rule is:

If you leave it in your car you don't want it

* this lesson is learned by young musicians who leave their instrument in thy car only to find them gone upon return

I reject this thinking....it was in my own driveway, that kind of invasion of privacy could have cost the poor son-of-a-bitch who stole my phones his life.
Its not like leaving things in open cars on public property, which never excuses thieves but is usually less of a deterrent to them than going onto someone's property and then stealing...

To be clear, I think all thieves should be brought to justice, but breaking and entering on private property is a deadly gamble to take.

If I had seen him rummaging through my cars in the driveway, I believe I would have been perfectly within my rights to have shot the fucker dead on the scene and wouldn't be liable for anything beyond a signature on the police report / coroner's report. Its dark and raining last night...I would have had no idea if he had a weapon or not and am not legally bound to give him the benefit of the doubt either. Once someone is on my property, and commissioning a crime, their rights end and my right to self-defense supersedes their right to continue threatening me or my family.

 

[Ramhusker]

The battery was dead. I forgot to bring it in the house after I got home and the battery was already under 5%...unless the thief were to charge the phone and try to use it - and then they would have to guess the 8-character password in under 5 tries...after a 5th failed log-in attempt the phone literally erases itself...so even if I got it back after that it would still be worthless...

I don't even care about the phones as much as the pictures I had on them. The I-phone was an old 3G model and out of service for 3 years. It was barely functional as an I-pod for the car, but I left a bunch of family vacation photos on it, some of which did not get transferred or downloaded. The Blackberry had images from my research on it, but most of that was backed up on the company servers before this...



I reject this thinking....it was in my own driveway, that kind of invasion of privacy could have cost the poor son-of-a-bitch who stole my phones his life.
Its not like leaving things in open cars on public property, which never excuses thieves but is usually less of a deterrent to them than going onto someone's property and then stealing...

To be clear, I think all thieves should be brought to justice, but breaking and entering on private property is a deadly gamble to take.

If I had seen him rummaging through my cars in the driveway, I believe I would have been perfectly within my rights to have shot the freaker dead on the scene and wouldn't be liable for anything beyond a signature on the police report / coroner's report. Its dark and raining last night...I would have had no idea if he had a weapon or not and am not legally bound to give him the benefit of the doubt either. Once someone is on my property, and commissioning a crime, their rights end and my right to self-defense supersedes their right to continue threatening me or my family.

I had a Garmin and some change ($15 maybe) stolen out of my vehicle that was sitting in my own driveway about 5 or 6 years ago. Yeah, it pisses you off. Funny thing was this happened a couple of weeks before Christmas and the back seat was full of presents that I had forgotten to bring in the house. The thief didn't touch them so I figured it was a neighborhood kid on foot and didn't want to be seen walking down the street with a bunch of shopping bags full of stuff so he/she took what could be carried. The worst thing about this kind of theft is it could cost the dumb little shits their lives and for what? Then I'd have to live with the guilt of punching a hole in their cranium. Dumb asses.

 

[Dodgersrf]

Your photos and contacts might be stored in a cloud service by your provider.
I would call them.

 

[Dodgersrf]

I had a thief stick a crowbar in the window frame of my Toyota truck years ago. He peeled the window frame down to get to the lock. All for a $300 compressor.
The fucking crack head probably sold it for $20.

I've had many tools stolen over the years. I've learned that if someone wants them, they're going to destroy everything to get them.
Haven't had any issues in 20 yeas though, fortunately

 

[RhodyRams]

That really suck Moose..hope you can at least get your pictures back. I upload mine to the cloud every night when I go to bed. Phone goes into blocking mode and uploads all new folders.

I had a thief stick a crowbar in the window frame of my Toyota truck years ago. He peeled the window frame down to get to the lock. All for a $300 compressor.
The freaking crack head probably sold it for $20.

I've had many tools stolen over the years. I've learned that if someone wants them, they're going to destroy everything to get them.
Haven't had any issues in 20 yeas though, fortunately

Almost 30 years ago someone stole all my tools out of my truck. I was at my fiance(now wife) house for dinner one Sunday and we got a freak ice storm and her Mom told me I had to stay there because the roads were too bad to drive on. I got up the next morning to find someone had lifted the whole diamond plate tool box off my truck. The cut bolts were left behind in the bed of the truck !!

 

[Moostache]

Thanks for the thoughts and comments...tonight my faith in humanity was slightly returned...one of my two stolen phones (my business line Blackberry Z10) was returned to me by a neighbor who found it discarded in their yard about 1/2 a mile up the street. Whoever took it did not realize the battery was dead and when it would not power up, they tossed it. They kept my I-Phone because it had a charging cable attached and was at full charge.

My neighbor went out of their way to make sure the phone was dried (it rained last night pretty good) and even went to the T-Mobile store to try and have it tracked and were told T-Mobile cannot track phones without the consent of the owner...after striking out at the store, my neighbor took it home, used their own charger to get 35% battery and then got my name from the splash screen...

What a day...thought I had lost 2+ years of photos and 2 phones, but in the end I got back the things I could not replace...

 

[RamzFanz]

It sucks. I was a photographer in Memphis and they got me twice.

Now, I just leave the door unlocked with no real valuables ever. The busted windows cost more than the stolen items.

Someone did steal my e-cig battery and charger with $10 of refills the other night. First time ever in my driveway.

 

[RamFan503]

Man that sucks.

It's crazy how attached we've all become to our electronic devices. I can still remember the days when there were no cell phones or Internet. Hahaha ... caveman days.

One thin dime was all you needed back in the day. Believe it or not, we still have two phone booths in town. Never seen anyone in them but...

 

[Dodgersrf]

Man that sucks.

It's crazy how attached we've all become to our electronic devices. I can still remember the days when there were no cell phones or Internet. Hahaha ... caveman days.

Me too.
I would come home and check my voice mail from my land line.
I no longer have a land line.

I freak out if something happens to my cell phone. 80% of my job relies on it. Most importantly, scheduling my guys for work.

In the early days we called Cell phone Car phones. Which wasn't that long ago.

 

[Stranger]

Sorry to hear about that. Losing the data, especially the pics, sux. It's happened to me.

For those wishing to avoid this dilemma, may I suggest Bittorrent Sync, which will allow you to keep all of your devices sync'd so that your data is never just on one machine.

https://www.getsync.com/

And none of your data is stored in the cloud on some company's server under their control. It's all stored on your own devices without having to setup accounts somewhere.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

That sucks to get robbed. I learned for my first time back in the mid 90s and I was so pissed. I wanted to beat up everyone I saw walking by my house. The guy got CDs and cash. It only too once for me. Now I leave nothing of value in my car.

Why would you leave anything of value in your car in this day and age of dishonesty?

 

[Ramhusker]

It sucks. I was a photographer in Memphis and they got me twice.

Now, I just leave the door unlocked with no real valuables ever. The busted windows cost more than the stolen items.

Someone did steal my e-cig battery and charger with $10 of refills the other night. First time ever in my driveway.

My dad taught me that in high school. I drove a convertible and he told me no need to lock the doors. If somebody wanted to break in, they would just slash the top which would be way more expensive than anything you'd lose in the car. Someone stole my CB (it was a 40 channel Lafayette which was a real bad boy back then) just while I went into a store to buy a pack of cigs.

 

[Ramhusker]

One thin dime was all you needed back in the day. Believe it or not, we still have two phone booths in town. Never seen anyone in them but...

For the heck of it, I look for them around town. They are hard to find and when I do find one, it usually doesn't work. I used the hell out of them calling home when I was in the USAF.

 

[RamzFanz]

For the heck of it, I look for them around town. They are hard to find and when I do find one, it usually doesn't work. I used the hell out of them calling home when I was in the USAF.

As a teen I lived in Hawaii which has island wide bus services. We all knew the bus routes and payphone locations. We even knew the numbers to the payphones so we could find someone in route at a bus stop.

In a pinch, you would call collect and when the operator asked if they would take a collect call, yell "call me at such and such location" and hang up.