Gratitude these days!

Initial reaction - Over-react and destroy it violently :D

After counting to 10 - As I'm a nice bloke I'd have told them I was dropping it off at the Asda customer service desk where they could pick it up and written a quick note to go with it saying "please don't be so ungrateful in future as another person may not have been so nice".
 
If the guy was rude to me on the phone when I was trying to do them a favour there's no end to how irritating I could be... I tend to take things like that personally.
E.g.
Fraping
Texts to males inviting them for various activities, ask them to ring on home number.
Texts to friends starting massive rows.

You have a young person's phone = you have them over a barrel.

In before "you're a monster" posts.
 
Janesy B said:
Presented with the chance of having the phone returned safely, they chose to be rude and made accusations. Result = phone being turned into a pile of metal and plastic. Lesson learnt = don't be a dick to someone trying to help you.
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We're going round in circles here - how is the 'lesson learned' if they never even find out about it and are left with the assumption that the 'thief' made off with the phone... tis more like reinforcing their initial belief than teaching them a lesson.
 
Justintime said:
So I was at an ASDAs today, found a phone at the side of my car on the ground, assumed someone dropped it as they entered the car that was next to mine when I got there.
It was a Samsung Galaxy without pin lock so I browsed it and found 'home' in the contact list. I rang it, someone answered, I assume the owners dad or something as he said 'hi Katey, mum was wondering when you'd call'

Explained who I was and how I got the phone - kicker is he would not believe me and kept calling me a thief, said he'd boil me alive if I hurt his daughter etc.. Apparently 'Katey' came in as well and he asked her what happened, she started ranting about how I must have pickpocketed her phone and she'd never leave it anywhere etc.. Saying I was setting them up for a house robbery and calling me 'scum' etc..
Long story short I didn't exactly tell them I was at an ASDAs quite yet, just hung up and put the phone down exactly where I found it and drove off :o


I feel kind of bad now, what would you have done?
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People like that, that kind of attitude is what's wrong with the world. I'd have posted something about it on this girl's Facebook page telling the truth. This way you've not really done anything wrong (as you say, just leave the phone exactly where you found it after) but they will have learnt a valuable lesson in not jumping to conclusions and this Katey will know to think twice before lying next time.

Hell I'm shaking my fist just reading this.
 
Disgraceful.

I'd have told him that I'm trying to do him a favour and could have left it where I found it. I'd then update facebook status and leave it with customer services.

Doubt I'd have broken it etc though.
 
Justintime said:
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I feel kind of bad now, what would you have done?
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Reported them to the police for threatening behaviour, perhaps. They seem to be dangerous people, so it's appropriate for the police to be made aware. Although they're probably already known to the police.

Or maybe I would have decided to not get involved in any way with the nutters, in which case I would have done exactly what you did.

You've no reason to feel bad. You're the victim. Don't blame yourself for the behaviour of the people who attacked you. That's completely the wrong way round.
 
I would have tracked the father down and boiled him alive.
I have his information on the phone.

I would have also binned the phone.
Some people really are a waste of good oxygen, bunch of idiots.

"He pickpocketed me, and he also threatened to rob our house and rape us all"

No little Katie, you're just a careless spoilt brat who wants to be taught some ****ing manners, but your parents are apparently too dim and inbred to do it.
 
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Just to reiterate the comments on here, you did the right thing and what a completely ridiculous response from the father and daughter.

Idiots really, but it makes you wonder what world they live in that their first thought when you say you found the phone is one of violence - if you hurt my daughter; and theft - you stole/pickpocketed it...very sad.
 
Setting them up for a robbery by calling them to give a heads up? What a tool.

Good for you for trying to help them out.
 
Actually, I think send everyone on FB and in address book abuse, spend a fortune on apps/premium rate nos, (also if there's a BF number in there, then call him and tell him you're Katey's new bloke and to stay the **** away from her), then factory wipe the phone and set a wallpaper with some text saying "Try not to be such a **** in future - this is karma mother******!" and hand in to CS
 
I would have rang them up again, recited the Liam Neeson speech from taken down the phone, trolled her Facebook; ending with "I'm going to smash your phone on the floor where I found it" then river dance all over her phone in the car park, and go home.

Someone put a phone on a table at a club I was at ages ago, I took it home, it rang, I answered it, and arranged to go drop the phone off the next day, had the person had the same attitude as the people described in the OP I wouldn't have bothered getting out of bed hungover the next day to go give them their phone, it would have went straight in my bin.
 
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