If you found a phone...
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No thought id just see the person got their phone back asap. Id like to think if I lost my phone that it would be returned. Op get some new mates
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Yeah but they can be unlocked by changing the IMEI number.
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Return! \o/
I found a blackberry about 18 months back and returned it and the guy brought me a bottle of wine! Wasn't expecting that. However on the flip side if I lost my phone I wouldn't hold my breath on having it returned. Short term gain isn't worth the inconvenience I know losing a phone is to a person.
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Not worth keeping these days. I would have returned it. They can either be blocked or found.
What happened with you and the police then?
They escorted me off the platform and outside and had a chat with me, made me look like right scum. I had to explain to them why would i ring the owners mother if i stole the phone. They let me go eventually after take my details.
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Why don't you write a letter of complaint?
Dont do this, i glanced through the gallery on the phone i found.
Multiple pictures of her naked boyfriend wearing her bra's
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It was about 10am when I was handed a phone by my daughters who had found it at the Leeds Festival and wanted to get it back to the owner.
Within 5 minutes there was a text saying something like "Debbie where the **** are you, we're worried, Dad" and my heart sank but I couldn't get into the phone but could read the texts and Facebook messages that came up.
At least 50 texts or messages came up with people asking me to give the phone back but not one idiot rang me (what is up with people?).
Anyway a name came up which was unique so a quick search on Facebook revealed a girl who had a friend called Debbie.
Her profile was open so I messaged her and at least 20 of her mates telling them to ask Debbie to contact me but still nothing
It was about 11:30pm when it finally rang and it was her real Dad (the one earlier was her Stepdad).
I explained what had happened, how not one person in 13 hours had got the brains to ring the phone and told them to get in touch.
About 1am I get a phone call off the Stepdad and we arrange for her to come and get it.
I wasn't in but she turned up at the door, took the phone and walked off without saying thanks but did say that she was going to buy a bottle of vodka but needed money for petrol so she would send it on (we never got it).
I really wish I had kept that one.
Within 5 minutes there was a text saying something like "Debbie where the **** are you, we're worried, Dad" and my heart sank but I couldn't get into the phone but could read the texts and Facebook messages that came up.
At least 50 texts or messages came up with people asking me to give the phone back but not one idiot rang me (what is up with people?).
Anyway a name came up which was unique so a quick search on Facebook revealed a girl who had a friend called Debbie.
Her profile was open so I messaged her and at least 20 of her mates telling them to ask Debbie to contact me but still nothing
It was about 11:30pm when it finally rang and it was her real Dad (the one earlier was her Stepdad).
I explained what had happened, how not one person in 13 hours had got the brains to ring the phone and told them to get in touch.
About 1am
I get a phone call off the Stepdad and we arrange for her to come and get it.I wasn't in but she turned up at the door, took the phone and walked off without saying thanks but did say that she was going to buy a bottle of vodka but needed money for petrol so she would send it on (we never got it).
I really wish I had kept that one.
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Phones that are barred in the UK will still work fine outside the UK.
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I would definitely return it. I hate when people don't. I left my iPod at the gym once in the changing rooms, didn't get handed in.
My boyfriend left his wallet on the plane when we went on holiday, so whoever got on that plane after him will have found it on the seat, with his cards, driving licence, full of Euros so obviously holiday money, given that the cards were there they must have known he would have struggled to get hold of any money, but it was never handed in.
I thought to myself at the time, "well I'm not surprised it wasn't handed in." Then I thought, hang on now, if I found someone's wallet I would give it in, so why do I fully expect others not to? That's the state of the country we live in, a horrible "finders keepers" attitude.
My boyfriend left his wallet on the plane when we went on holiday, so whoever got on that plane after him will have found it on the seat, with his cards, driving licence, full of Euros so obviously holiday money, given that the cards were there they must have known he would have struggled to get hold of any money, but it was never handed in.
I thought to myself at the time, "well I'm not surprised it wasn't handed in." Then I thought, hang on now, if I found someone's wallet I would give it in, so why do I fully expect others not to? That's the state of the country we live in, a horrible "finders keepers" attitude.