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Stolen iPad? <yawn>
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For all the stories of someone finding their stolen iDevice, this one crosses it out.
Manlius woman tracks her stolen iPad online, but authorities fail to act | syracuse.com
Granted, she did leave it on the plane, and I wouldn't have given up, but it's obvious an airline employee took it rather than putting in lost and found. It's also stunning that the police did nothing considering she had the address all they had to do was go get it.
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My dad has iPads left on his planes ALL the time. At least once a week.
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Wow. How are people that careless?
Your dad is a pilot mitchell? That's pretty cool.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
You're dad is a pilot mitchell? That's pretty cool.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
You're dad is a pilot mitchell? That's pretty cool.
Or a flight attendant
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
Wow. How are people that careless?
Your dad is a pilot mitchell? That's pretty cool.
Like in that story, people put them in the seatback pocket and forget about it. More so than a phone, because a lot of people pull out their phones as soon as the plane lands to turn them on/etc.
Yes, for United.
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Very cool, sorry I didn't know that before. I guess it's common knowledge to the likes of Laminar.
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The next time iMitchell sells an iPad in the Marketplace, I'm going to be veeeery suspicious...
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I would never place my iPad in the seatback pocket because I know people put trash there all the time (and probably worse). What usually happens to all these lost iPads that your dad comes across?
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Where do you live el chup (if not south of the border like your name implies)?
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
Very cool, sorry I didn't know that before. I guess it's common knowledge to the likes of Laminar.
Everything is common knowledge to Laminar
Originally Posted by Big Mac
I would never place my iPad in the seatback pocket because I know people put trash there all the time (and probably worse). What usually happens to all these lost iPads that your dad comes across?
If they notice it immediately after de-boarding as the flight attendants do their walkthrough picking up trash and cleaning, they'll take it up to the gate agent for them to hold in case the passenger comes back. If they don't come to pick it up before the next departure at that gate, it'll make its way down to United's lost and found in the baggage claim area. They'll tag it with the information from the flight and what seat it was left at for easy reference.
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Was anyone else initially confused by the term "Manlius woman?"
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5
Everything is common knowledge to Laminar
The Laminar is not confused by Puny Ignorants!
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The last story I had read, the police didn't want to get involved, either. It wasn't until people on the internet kept calling the police and telling them to do something that they actually went and arrested the guy.
With all the huge cutbacks to police departments, a stolen iPad is pretty low on their list.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
The last story I had read, the police didn't want to get involved, either. It wasn't until people on the internet kept calling the police and telling them to do something that they actually went and arrested the guy.
With all the huge cutbacks to police departments, a stolen iPad is pretty low on their list.
Yet an iphone left at a bar isn't low on the list because a corporation wants it back for no reason. I remember the majority of people on the net were cheering Apple and the police back when that fight was going on. But if you read the comments under this story with the lady everyone is hating on the lady; which is ironic.
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Where do you live el chup (if not south of the border like your name implies)?
I've lived all over the place. The story with the wallet comes from Houston. The story with the police telling me I could get back at somebody and the case would be dismissed happened in a suburb of Spokane Washington.
I thought of another one: A federal agent friend of mine, had a run in with a Pakistani in the middle of the city. He called the police; when they got there they couldn't pronounce the Pakistani's name so as they were talking to him they just referred to him as f***** Bin laden. yes, true story. Texas has some of the worst cops... a year or so ago there was a big story here about how they saw a black guy in a rich white neighborhood walking up to a house. They said he looked suspicious like he was going to break in... so they shot him 14 times in the back. He was unarmed... He was going into his own house.
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Originally Posted by el chupacabra
Texas has some of the worst cops... a year or so ago there was a big story here about how they saw a black guy in a rich white neighborhood walking up to a house. They said he looked suspicious like he was going to break in... so they shot him 14 times in the back. He was unarmed... He was going into his own house.
Same thing happened to a university professor, except for the shooting. Someone saw a black guy entering a home, so they called the cops and he was arrested. The guy was a university professor going home.
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5
My dad has iPads left on his planes ALL the time. At least once a week.
I recently lost mine during a flight....
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I'll admit to leaving my iPad on a plane underneath my seat. Fortunately it was the last flight of the evening and the cleaning crew found it and I got it back the next day.
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Wouldn't it be a nice feature if you could "pair" your iPhone with your iPad, and as soon as those get separated by more than 30 feet, some sort of alarm goes off ?
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Wouldn't it be a nice feature if you could "pair" your iPhone with your iPad, and as soon as those get separated by more than 30 feet, some sort of alarm goes off ?
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The same would be nice to do with a Macbook and an iPhone or iPad.
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I think the cops are more reluctant to help here because she left it there herself. Had she been mugged and had it stolen, they may have been more apt to help.
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Agreed ^.
I was at my police station ordering a background check, and while I was in line I overheard a woman filing a police report for a "stolen" iPad. She set her iPad down on a bus stop bench, walked across the street to a cafe to get coffee and a sandwich, proceeded to eat the sandwich, came back 15 minutes later and it was "stolen."
The police have better things to worry about, like breaking and entering or battery. Insurance can handle stuff like this.
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
I was at my police station ordering a background check, and while I was in line I overheard a woman filing a police report for a "stolen" iPad. She set her iPad down on a bus stop bench, walked across the street to a cafe to get coffee and a sandwich, proceeded to eat the sandwich, came back 15 minutes later and it was "stolen."
For realz ?
She should have been tarred and feathered on the spot.
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