legalities - found iphone

Demoniser said:
It should be handed in to the Police Station. If it isn't claimed within a certain amount of time he should be able to keep it.
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Funnily enough there was a report a few years back where an undercover team handed in a wallet containing £100 pounds to a dozen or so police stations around the UK.


Only 3 or 4 of them still had the wallet after 6 months - 3/4 claimed to have lost it - 3/4 claimed to have handed it back to the owner - and there were various excuses for why it wasn't there when the team went to pick up the wallet.
 
After a lot of people giving him a verbal kicking on facebook he has agreed to hand it in, however, I will be keeping an eye on his phone because I know what he is like!
 
dmpoole said:
I started a thread about this when it happened but my youngest daughter found an IPhone at Leeds festival and for 48 hours people only texted the phone and we couldn't get into it.
I waited and waited for somebody to actually ring it but I suppose I was asking for a miracle.
After about 50 texts & Facebook messages I thought the owner must be a dick so I hovered over the program that would make it mine but a text came in off the Dad pleading for his daughter to get in touch.
That hit my parental conscience so I waited until a really stupid Facebook name come up and did a search.
I eventually found the girl who had facebook'd that she'd lost her phone and set about messaging her and at least 25 of her friends but still no answer.
Around midnight I got an old person who obviously knew the old method of speaking to someone and it was her Dad from the USA.
He passed messages on but I only got texts for 2 hours which I can't reply to.
Eventually her Uncle who knows how to speak to people rang up and we gave him an address where she could pick it up.
She arrived, forgot to bring a reward, begged my daughter to lend her £10 to get home and she would send it on.
We've heard nothing and my daughter has learnt a lesson.
I really wish I had pressed OK when I had the chance to.
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Geez, hate people like that. I once went out of my way to drop off a phone i had found, went down to Edgeware from Eltham in SE London where i was living at the time, the person had dropped it at a local farmers market and i found it that night after everyone cleared off (market thing was outside my house). Knocked on the door, met this huge black dude who told me that it better be ok and i better had not used any of his girls minutes.. then shut the door. Not a word of thanks. Next phone i find i ignore. To the OP, your mate is a tool.
 
dmpoole said:
She arrived, forgot to bring a reward, begged my daughter to lend her £10 to get home and she would send it on.
We've heard nothing and my daughter has learnt a lesson.
I really wish I had pressed OK when I had the chance to.
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What lesson did your daughter learn? Did you conclude that you shouldn't do the right thing in future simply because you encountered someone who was ungrateful?
 
I've got an iphone 4.

If the owner has activated the findmyiphone service available at the last update he can track the phone via GPS, make it display messages & sounds, and remotely wipe it and lock it.

If its reported stolen it will be blocked from the network and be of no use to the person who found it.

The messages, were they a text messages, or just messages that pop up with "important message" as the header ?

If the latter then the phone has the tracking activated.

I'd try and get him to hand it in, nothing good can come of attempting to keep it.
 
AHarvey said:
After a lot of people giving him a verbal kicking on facebook he has agreed to hand it in, however, I will be keeping an eye on his phone because I know what he is like!
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good to hear :)

If anything ,more good can come of handing it in, because he can get a reward for it.
 
If I were you I would ensure for a limited time that your workmates personal phone suddenly disappears - he'll soon realise how much more than just a simple annoyance it is to lose your phone...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
I would be straight to ebay.

Ive handed in keys from a car left running all night in a car sales garage, 2 wallets and a bum bag and never had a phone call back to say thanks.
 
dowie said:
What lesson did your daughter learn? Did you conclude that you shouldn't do the right thing in future simply because you encountered someone who was ungrateful?
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Absolutely.
Being a ***** family we shouldn't have tried in the first place.

Found out last night that my daughter still monitors her page because she has been asking for her money back with no response and about 3 weeks ago she lost her phone again.
Hopefully this time somebody kept it.
 
What lesson did your daughter learn? Did you conclude that you shouldn't do the right thing in future simply because you encountered someone who was ungrateful?
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That would be my guess ,if i ever found an item like this and were treated like this i wouldnever,repeat never hand in anything ever again.As has been said once bitten twice shy
As for the guy dropping off the phone to the black dad:mad: pig ignorant ****** is what springs to mind about him
Seems like in this world it is look after N0.1 because no one else is going to :(
Anyway Happy New Year....don`t any of you lot lose your phones nearby lol:D
 
Very dishonest of him, if he keeps it I hope Karma gets him. Besides, the rightful owner can phone up their provider and have the iPhones IMEI blacklisted rendering it useless as a phone (in the UK)
 
This is amazing. I posted about how my bike light came off my bike and was picked up and stolen within about 5 minutes and I was shot down in flames by you lot, with finders keepers. But yet it's NOT ok to pick up an iPhone?

Hypocrits.
 
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