How Not to Steal a Sidekick

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Great story going on about a thief who stole someone's Sidekick and is now being publicly emabassed to the world.

From the web site:

"When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. There was no response. After a day of waiting, she had to go to the store and spend over $300 on a new Sidekick. When she put her SIM card in, she saw that the person(s) that had taken the phone had not only signed on to AOL leaving their name and password in the phone, but they had taken pictures of themselves."

The person now is on a campaign to publicly shame them, and doing a damn good job of it.

You can read the whole thing here, complete with picutes of the theifs:

http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

The site has been up for two days. They started a forum to deal with discussion because of the 200 emails an hour they are getting. The first forum crashed within 5 minutes from the traffic it was receiving. The second one lasted not much longer. The current one, which has a big honking server with a fat pipe to the Internet, has been up for less than an hour, already has:

Our users have posted a total of 272 articles

We have 172 registered users

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I find this amazing because this person posted a 1 page web site and within 2 days, thousands upon thousands have visited it, emailed about it, and crashed 3 servers (the third forum site is now dead).

[ex70sHouston]

Its just so interesting to see how a thief can lie and steal and think that nothing will happen.

What would have happened the next day if the girl had just returned the phone and got the reward. Now the world knows her nature.

A former employe of mine was caugh stealing stuff from behind my shop. The State of Texas is after him because he has been working without a license. Talking to a friend of mine Ricky cant get any work in town because no one will hire him. Small towns are great.

[Tom Strange]

what maroons...

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MSNBC picked the story up.

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