Yup the guy from the floor below came steaming up to my place, red as a beet, and slunk away.
I'm telling this story until I'm in the old folks home. Then Ahlzheimer's will kick in and I'll forget.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Monday, March 21, 2005
Proper Cell-phone Camera Use
Okay this is a good one.
On Saturday, as I head to my car in the parking lot of my building, I notice a cell phone on the hood.
Now this is an unusual event: it looks like it was left there, and it's obviously a pretty top-of-the line phone. It was almost out of power though, so I couldn't get past a set-up screen to get to a phone list to find out who owned the phone.
It was one of the deluxe models with VGA graphics, full MP3 capability, internal camera and calendar, the whole shebang (I found the manufacturer site).
So I found my landlady and ask here if anyone reported a missing phone. We had a couple of move-ins this past weekend so we went around to the new arrivals to see if it was theirs. Nobody claimed it.
However I did remember some people at work that had a similar phone, so today I asked around and sure enough, Brian had the exact same phone with a charger by his desk.
So we plug 'er in.
Now, the phone list had ALOT of names, mostly female. The natural conclusions were:
1) Single Female Phone with friends names
2) Single Male phone with 'friends' names
however the actual number had been deactivated so we couldn't do reverse lookup. We considered who on the list we should call, but Brian had the idea to look at the pictures and maybe see a face I would recognize from my building (4 story walkup).
So I didn't recognize the faces from the first few pictures but I did recognize a big black pick-up that frequently parks in my space. Thought of vengeance went through my head.
Then I saw the rest of the pictures.
Now, there should be a reward for finding an expensive phone. However the blackmail opportunities for a phone where the owner has photographed themselves and their lover-de-jour are nearly limitless. Seriously, makes Hustler look tame.
I've drained the battery again, posted signs in the laundry room, and so I'm waiting for someone to claim the phone.
More updates as they occur.
On Saturday, as I head to my car in the parking lot of my building, I notice a cell phone on the hood.
Now this is an unusual event: it looks like it was left there, and it's obviously a pretty top-of-the line phone. It was almost out of power though, so I couldn't get past a set-up screen to get to a phone list to find out who owned the phone.
It was one of the deluxe models with VGA graphics, full MP3 capability, internal camera and calendar, the whole shebang (I found the manufacturer site).
So I found my landlady and ask here if anyone reported a missing phone. We had a couple of move-ins this past weekend so we went around to the new arrivals to see if it was theirs. Nobody claimed it.
However I did remember some people at work that had a similar phone, so today I asked around and sure enough, Brian had the exact same phone with a charger by his desk.
So we plug 'er in.
Now, the phone list had ALOT of names, mostly female. The natural conclusions were:
1) Single Female Phone with friends names
2) Single Male phone with 'friends' names
however the actual number had been deactivated so we couldn't do reverse lookup. We considered who on the list we should call, but Brian had the idea to look at the pictures and maybe see a face I would recognize from my building (4 story walkup).
So I didn't recognize the faces from the first few pictures but I did recognize a big black pick-up that frequently parks in my space. Thought of vengeance went through my head.
Then I saw the rest of the pictures.
Now, there should be a reward for finding an expensive phone. However the blackmail opportunities for a phone where the owner has photographed themselves and their lover-de-jour are nearly limitless. Seriously, makes Hustler look tame.
I've drained the battery again, posted signs in the laundry room, and so I'm waiting for someone to claim the phone.
More updates as they occur.
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