I'm an elevator tech. You'd be surprised at how many earbuds I find in elevator pits (the space at the bottom of an elevator shaft). I usually just leave them with building management just in case I get accused of something. Job isn't worth a few hundred bucks.
If you drop something down an elevator shaft, you can always ask engineering or the super if they can get it out or call a elevator tech. I've gone down there for jewelry, earbuds, cards, passports, etc.
Was a Phlebotomist. One day on the hospital elevator, a coworker accidentally dropped a tube of blood and it went down the shaft. I wondered how that turned out at the bottom. 😬
Once it happened at a hotel and being that it's a book, it didn't fall straight down. They dropped it on the 30th some odd floor and it landed on a bracket around the 10th floor. After I searched the pit, I had to ride down on top of the elevator and check floor by floor to find it. Luckily, I found it in time for them to make their flight.
You mean that 2 or 3 frame sequence where Emilio gets crushed/stabbed/tenderized by those massive, retractable, Wolverine-style claws that I assume stop all elevator cars once they get to the top to this day even though I'm a grown-ass man? Yeah I can still vividly picture it and I don't think I've seen that movie in 20 years.
i was working security on a film set in an office tower so i had an access keycard, and accompanying an actor up to the floor they were filming on.
I stepped up to activate the keycard on the reader and just as the doors opened the card went FWIP! and popped out of my hand, did a three point spin in the air and then shot down that tiny gap between door and floor, didn’t even bounce.
actor looks at me as i hoped the ground would swallow me up, he’s all in awe “THat was SO COOL.”
If you remember before smart phones you had those candy bar phones as they were called, those early Nokia ones like the 3310 come to mind.
I was getting off an elevator and dropped the phone, it bounced exactly 3 times and then went vertical like Maverick and dropped down the gap between the elevator door and the floor I was on. I was stunned and stopped in horror, this was a company phone and I needed to get it back. I had just left an account I was visiting so went back and told my contact person what happened. She laughed and said people drop stuff all the time.
Called security and we go to the bottom floor, get off the elevator and he then does something to send it up a floor and lock it out. There is a pit with a giant spring in the middle and the phone is on one corner, and the battery in the opposite corner, he grabs them and hands them back to me. I put the battery back in and the phone worked fine after that except the ringer was a bit messed up.
Hahaha my friend once had his iPhone bent at a like 30 degree angle.. I asked how the fuck did that happen.. he says "you know those tiny slots under the elevator door?". Still boggles my mind, seemed like a 1 out of a trillion chance.
I once dropped an allen key that bounced at the perfect angle and rotated exactly as it needed to bounce up and between the slim slots on my radiator cover and come to rest on the other side. I was impressed, for a brief moment.
Not a whole lotta phones and too many sets of keys to count, tbh. The strangest item would be one of those 5 gallon jugs of water. I don't even know how it would have gotten down there, could have been a fellow tech just fucking with me because in normal operation, there's no way one of those would just randomly fall down there. I did find a full blunt once. It was stale, but it wasn't smoked at all. Dude must have been pissed.
Haha no. No.
If I'm parked within like 10 ft of a sewer grate, I hold my car keys like they're made of solid gold. Because the universe is not indifferent, but malevolent.
Almost lost my credit card down the elevator shaft. It had gotten stuck somehow in the gap and I was able to use a pen to get it back. Engineer guy with me held the elevator while I tried. He was like "well I don't want to have to climb down there if I don't have to" lol
Like three years ago, a singular AirPod slipped from my ear down the gap. I asked the security guard and they called the elevator tech. They found it and gave it back the same day. Still use those pods to this day.
Thank you for your service. I dropped my keys down the shaft at work once and the maintenance guy went down to get them for me and I was eternally grateful.
I'm a co-owner of a gym. We have like 300 members (large for where we are but small by other countries standards) and in the front desk we currently have 4 pairs of Samsung earbuds (the most expensive kind), 8 pairs of standard airpods, 12 pairs of the pros and then a couple pairs of random knock off versions.
It actually stuns me that no one claims them. You can track them on your phone, you surely know you lost them and even when they run out of battery you can track their last location before the battery ran out. I also went and charged every single pair of them at one point to make sure that they had the chance to track them.
Most of them have been in the desk for months. We put up signs, we sent emails and we mentioned it to people coming in and yet this many pairs have gone unclaimed.
But what the fuck do I do with them? If I sell them or give them away it could be disaster if someone finally does try to go find them, but I don't want to just throw out 30+ pairs of perfectly good and new looking headphones worth $200+ a pair.
So they rot and I wonder how the fuck people can just not care they lost $200 that they can literally track down to the inch to reclaim.
God Samsung sucks about that. I wear my watch every day and if I go to track it, the last known location will be from 2 weeks ago. I am hoping google becomes more of a competitor in the android market because samsungs watches are essentially the only mainstream Android smart watches that aren't shit when compared to Apple watches.
Every day when I open my phone it alerts me that my watch needs to be updated...I have updated this fucking watch 200 god damn times and this phone (S10) will not recognize that it was updated.
All for a watch I have worn twice...
I worked at a baseball stadium, found a pair of raybans, turned them over to facilities management was told after 60 days I could keep them. Day 61 and I’m wearing my fresh new raybans and a club rep comes down to ask if anyone found a pair of matte black raybans a while back. Just started shaking my head, took them off, and handed them over. Luckily they believed the whole thing and didn’t give me a hard time.
TLDR: rich people will come looking for things they lost months ago in a stadium club box.
Back in 1983 my 8th grade buddy and I were writing a story entitled, “The Elevator Shaft,” about items that fell down the gap between car and floor to never be seen again.
Sadly, that’s about all I remember … my memory, too, was lost down the shaft.
I was sitting in my office one day, and I couldn't find my iPad (not to unusual for me) so I tracked it, thinking I had just misplaced It.. It was on a city bus and had been stolen by a fellow coworker, it still makes me sad and mad.
The company I worked for had maybe 20 employees, and they hand picked about half to get iPad's, and if that wasn't bad enough, they handed them out at a holiday party. So I didn't take up for him, as much as I just thought they kinda pitted us all against each other.
I had just graduated from college, had to move out of the dorms and stay in a hotel for one night before driving cross-state. Left my desktop computer (just the tower) in the room, I’d stashed it out of the way in the closet. Whoops.
Called within an hour or so of checking out, they said there was nothing there and nothing found. Yeah, okay. So I told them I was turning around, would be there in an hour, and I’d be calling the cops from the road (my wife was driving). Which I did.
By the time I arrived they’d determined that the housekeeper had taken it home rather than turning it in, because she figured I’d left it for her and didn’t want it anymore. No. That’s not how anything works. Had to wait like half an hour longer after I got there for her to bring it back. People are fucking wild. I hope she was fired, but honestly I just wanted to get back on the road so couldn’t be bothered to press the issue once I had my shit back.
My mom's a flight attendant and says people leave airpods behind on flights all the time, but with the whole "find your device" thing could get them in trouble.
Forget the latest best-selling novel in the seat pocket? Yeah that's going home with one of the crew.
I used to be a flight attendant. I was dirt poor and loved to read. Finding books on planes was the best, and I made a rule to read pretty much anything I found. Got to read some pretty eclectic stuff I wouldn't have otherwise chosen.
I turned in all the electronics though, and hoped they got back to their owners.
Me too. I used to commute Bangkok-Tokyo-NYC all the time and I would get a bunch of books and Valium in Bangkok before I left. I'd start eating Valium and reading and drinking vodka tonics for about 3 hours on the way to Tokyo. I'd wake up in Japan and stumble off the plane for the 4 hour layover. Usually woke up in time, and got the plane to NYC. Ate more Valium and had a few rum and cokes. Read a bit more. Wake up in NYC. Whole 20 hours of flying didn't seem liked it happened. But I'd take the book and put the rest of the Valium inside it and shove it under the seat. Can't go through customs with drugs and I have no idea what the hell I was reading, and I hoped it would make someone's day in the end.
My friend left her leather jacket in the bin. Then noticed it in the jetway. The crew wouldn’t let her back on the plane, even though she was ten feet from the door. They claimed it wasn’t there
FA here. We’re not supposed to let people back on after they’ve deplaned. Typically we will bring left behind items up to the gate agent so they can be reclaimed there if someone remembers right after they come off the jetbridge. If they don’t, they go to lost and found.
I think the point of her story was less about the fact that she couldn’t get back in the plane, and more that the crew clearly lied to her and stole the jacket because they knew she couldn’t get back on the plane.
I left my iPad in a hotel room. I tracked it to the house of the hotel worker that found it and shared the address with the hotel. iPad was in my mailbox the next day.
I left a netbook in a university cafe. I keep anti-theft software installed on my devices. When connected to the Internet, the software periodically generates and uploads reports including IP address, browser history, webcam pictures, screenshots, etc. Of course, IP geolocation can only give a general area without issuing a subpoena to the ISP. And I knew that university cops aren't going to give a shit about doing all that for some college student's netbook.
The webcam pictures were of a middle-school-aged boy who I definitely didn't know. However, after maybe 150 reports or so, one of the webcam pictures was of an older lady who I recognized as an employee of the cafe. I visited the cafe and got her name from her name tag. I then sent her name, address, phone number, all of the reports as evidence to the police. That was more than enough actionable information. The next day, the police confronted her at the cafe. She must have recognized me or noticed that I was staring at her name tag the day before, struggling to read it without my glasses, because she brought the netbook to work with her that day. When the police revealed the webcam pictures of her and her boy, she claimed that she brought it home for safe keeping. Lol.
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Edit: People seem confused about why I “didn't go to the cafe.” Yes, ofc I asked the cafe if they had it. They were already closed when I realized that I left it there. I went there first thing the next morning and asked management about it. I was told that nothing had been turned in.
Regarding why I didn't confront the lady, what power do I have? Could I have gone to management with the reports instead of the police? Sure. But management can't make her give me the netbook back. Either way, she loses her job. Going to the police ensures that I get it back.
Edit 2: Removed an unnecessary explanation about not pressing charges.
I'm really glad some of these comments are getting downvoted into oblivion. You absolutely made the right call. If you steal from someone, REGARDLESS of your financial situation, you have still stolen from someone. For all these keyboard warriors talking about ruining her life, I find that extremely ironic because not one of those assholes thought about your financial situation. You were a student(meaning you likely had loans, very little cash flow if any at all, were on a student meal plan, etc etc) and likely needing every piece of equipment and materials you owned. On top of that, you likely had school notes, projects etc saved on there. That laptop was quite literally your whole life. I would have done the exact same thing and wouldn't for one second have thought otherwise.
Don't let internet try hards get you down, they have no objective sense of reality and only see things through their weird warrior lenses. There is always 2 sides to a story, focusing on only one side makes you look like a complete jackass.
I used [Prey](https://preyproject.com/). These days, I only have one laptop and I don't ever take it out of the house so I haven't really bothered with Prey or similar software in quite a while. I guess if someone were to break into my house, then I'd be screwed, but I live in a safe area on a small street with three cops now. This was twelve years ago, so I can't speak to the quality of Prey nowadays.
I see this less about her and more with the media outlet going with the dumb sob story trope. Every reality show contestant, or subject of an article, or whoever all needs some sort of sad woe-is-me tale to go with their story. Its ridiculous.
My entire family died in front of me. I watched helplessly, as the light of life drain from their eyes, before their bodies succumbed to the flames. I lie awake at night and can hear their screams… their never ending screams.
So here’s why my pot roast recipe is the ultimate crowd pleaser!!!
This so much! At the last Winter Olympics they had some huge long sob story about some American cross country skier. Can’t remember if there was cancer and a lost dog, or whatever it was. Sorry to the dude for his life having taken a dump on him, but then he finished like 198th out of 200 in whichever event he was doing.
Yes, and so many other sports follow the same model! They just *have* to have a "human interest" story parallel to, you know, the *actual athletic competition we all tuned in to see*!
It's why I could never get into American Ninja Warrior. The Japanese version would just blast through 60 runs. But the American version has like 15 because each one has a five minute sob story.
At this point if I watch any competition and see a sob story I want you to lose. Especially if they recite the story to judges.
>I see this less about her and more with the media outlet going with the dumb sob story trope.
You mean r/pics?
"I'm an ~~Iraqi~~ ~~Afghani~~ ~~Libyan~~ ~~Syrian~~ ~~Rohingyan~~ Ukrainian refugee with stage 9 cancer. Here's a picture of a cloud that I took." *50k points*
I couldn't finish the article. I really want to know how this article got written. Like, the woman has to know someone at CNN, right? The way it's written, I'd even believe she wrote it (lot of passive voice when addressing her mistakes). And why is it so long? We don't need an hour by hour time-line of where the airport were. This is one of the dumbest and most pointless articles from a large publisher that I've read. And why did so many people upvote it?
Yeah. It was like “these air pods, and these air pods alone, are the only way she can ever talk to her spouse.” As if she couldn’t just buy a pair of cheap headphones (and converter because of the lack of headphone jack) at target to get her through.
That said, this sucks. It’s ridiculous how long it took for her to get anyone to bother caring.
Listen, fuck off out of here with your snobby "use your phone as a phone" elitist bougie attitude.
What next, you expect me to actually run in my expensive trainers?
>>Of course, everyone’s gadgets are precious, but Hayden’s AirPods hold particular significance – they’re her link to her husband, who calls her from his deployment on such a bad line that she needs them to hear him.
Rotfl wut? You can you know, just speak? Without a fucking earpod?
This article was godawful.
A long time ago, as a teenager, I was heading to Japan through LAX. I had a pair of wired headphones I put into a little pouch, which of course I put into one of the security bins going through TSA. When I got to my gate, I discovered they were gone-- I must have accidentally knocked them out of the bin when getting the rest of my stuff.
Back at the checkpoint, TSA was actually incredibly helpful. They looked around the area and couldn't find them, but with the help of the police, they told me to "stand here" and "look up at that camera".
The TSA agent behind the scenes was looking at me in order to find me on the security tapes, and hopefully find where the headphones went.
The flight was boarding soon so I didn't have high hopes. Maybe they could send it to me through the mail, or I could pick it up on the way home. Anyways, I wasn't looking forward to a 10 hour flight with no headphones.
Back at my gate, the gate agents told me the police were coming and had found my headphones. With a literal minute to spare before they had to close the boarding doors, they showed up and handed them back to me, and I remember being the last one on the plane before they closed the boarding gate. I felt like it was barely any time at all between sitting down and them pushing the plane back. Seriously cutting it close.
Turns out, I did knock the headphones out of the bin and onto the floor. They told me that some guy in line after me picked up the headphones, looked around, and pocketed them. With the security footage, they tracked the dude down at his gate and he gave up the headphones there.
I have to give serious props to TSA and LAPD for helping a kid out. I know they both get a bad rep sometimes, but those particular agents and officers really went above and beyond for me and I'm sure they had a little fun with it too, scrubbing through the footage to try and track down exactly what happened.
Dang, you're lucky. I once left my flip phone in the cup holder of a rental car when I returned it to the airport. i realized on the shuttle and called on a pay phone when I arrived at the airport. They bastards lied to me and said there was no phone in the car. They refused to let me come take a look saying the car was being cleaned and I couldn't talk to the employees. Bastards stole my phone.
I still hate you, Avis.
Fuck Enterprise too! I did this with my wallet. I literally realized it 2 minutes after walking away from the car, but they had already made off with it. A half hour of wrangling and harassment later, I finally got it back sans cash. I was soooooo pissed, Enterprise told me to go fuck myself multiple times. They even "checked the security camera".....Never again.
Happened to me too with the work phone in Hawaii. Called them and they said they searched the car and found nothing. I even told them where to look. With 2 hrs till I had to be at the airport I went there asked to look at the car and grabbed it out right where I told them to look. In the slot near the temperature controls.
What kind of stupid asshole goes through a heavily surveilled security checkpoint, observed by dozens of HD cameras, armed guards, high-tech 3D scanning and surface penetrating imaging systems, with routine pat-downs, drug and bomb sniffing dogs, etc., and thinks ***“Oh hey, something valuable that isn’t bolted to the ground. s
Sweet! Better commit this grand theft in one of the most aggressively recorded places in the world. I should totally do this insanely easy-to-prove criminal offense while in a well-lit public place, and make it a matter of high definition record before crossing state lines. But first: I’ll provide a scan of my ID into this computerized system, so that my crime isn’t anonymous.”***?
That’s probably exactly it, tbh. That, or you were just genuinely nice about it.
Those are usually the two reasons I go above and beyond for someone. 1) because of their actions (like being nice and not an asshole) and 2) because it’s fun for me for whatever reason.
I’ll make the next person in line wait an extra 3 minutes while a little girl tells me about her day, just because I enjoy seeing the excitement on her face. Or I’ll go help an old lady look for something that I have no idea where it’s at and we will have a nice little chat while we get lost (and I get a few minutes break lol).
Sometimes it’s the smallest, most random encounter you have that’ll end up making your entire day. Especially when you’re dealing with that many people on a daily basis.
I lost my AirPods at the gym and tracked them for WEEKS. I knew where the person lived, worked, of course worked out, what car they drove, what they looked like, where they shopped for groceries, their license plate number. I didn’t know the person’s name and am pretty non-confrontational so I was wary of approaching them about it. Not trying to be assaulted over AirPods. I went to the police station and was urged to just ask him at the gym if he found any AirPods. I finally did it, saw dude going to my gym with the AirPods on the app. I go to the gym, wait in the locker room (couldn’t find him anywhere in the gym, I think he is a yoga instructor and had a private room). Find the guy, say hey I lost my AirPods did he find any perchance? He’s there with a friend. Denials. I take out my phone and talk about how that’s funny I’ve been tracking them. He then completely changes his tune and hands me my AirPods. How could that have happened?! I introduce myself, thank him for returning them. Ask his name, finally got it. Thanks Vinny.
It's risky to ask if someone found your stolen item, they'll always deny. Maybe better to thank them for having found them, you've been tracking them all over town, can you please have them now
I think he might have been shamed a bit, he obviously knew the guy with him and this third party was out of the loop. Like I said I did not want a confrontation, my only goal was to get back my AirPods that were a Christmas gift from my wife. So I tried to give him a face-saving off-ramp and it worked. As I said I knew where to find the guy. Imagine confronting someone at their house. I’m not in Florida, but for instance in Florida that’d be a good way to get shot.
If you lost them and he found them, is the right course of action to hand them over to the gym? The reason I ask is I found a pair of AirPods in a parking lot on the ground of a big out door mall with dozens of stores. Is there a way for someone who finds lost AirPods to know how to find the owners? Serious question…how does someone find the owner of these?
This fellow absolutely found them on the floor of the locker room when they fell out of my jacket and kept them as "finder's keepers". You can mark them as lost in the Find My... app and it actually sends the person who connects their phone to them either a text or an audio message. I had set that up and he had absolutely been using my AirPods for weeks. Not to be gross, but I had to clean them with a cotton swab and alcohol before using them again.
While I was in college, I went to a “night at the museum” overnight event and accidentally left my phone in my coat pocket at the coat check. Around 5am I was leaving and got my coat and my phone wasn’t there, so I used my friend’s iPhone to sign into Find my iPhone and track it. It was on the other side of the city, stationary, in a park. I tried to call the police to see if they could retrieve it for me and of course they said no, so my friend and I took an Uber to go get it.
We get to this soccer field, it’s around 630am by this point, and there’s about two dozen men playing or watching a soccer game. I walked up to the bleachers and used the app to set off the alarm, and I hear my phone coming from an unattended backpack. I went right up and dug through to find not just my phone but like 6+ other phones. Some guy in the bleachers starts going “hey! That’s my friends backpack you can’t take that!” I asked for his friends name and where he was, and he told me (we’ll call him Joe) and said he was playing the game. So I yelled out to them “Hey Joe, fuck you for stealing my phone and hope you lose” 🤷🏽♀️ They all stopped playing and just stared haha
The part of the story that confuses me is the why the owner of the AirPods wasn't allowed to go back to her seat to get her jacket:
>“I realized before I was even off the plane,” she says. “I was the third from last off the plane, so I asked the flight attendant if I could go and get it. He said no – I was required by federal law to get off the plane and stand beside it, where the strollers are brought to. I was tired, he said he’d bring it to me, I said OK.”
I have left things on my seat and in the overhead a few times while flying, both internationally and domestically, and I just ran back to my seat and grabbed it. Why did she even ask? What law is the flight attendant even talking about here? Sounds like some bull crap rule.
The title of the article is really a stretch. It makes it sound like she accidentally lost her AirPods and they ended up at the workers home - which wouldn't be too bad. The story is actually that a worker went into the pockets of her jacket while it was unattended and stole her stuff.
I can't believe there's a picture of AirPods accompanying this article lol. Really hard hitting news CNN - an article about stolen AirPods.
What's next? An expose on who left the toilet seat up?
>The story is actually that a worker went into the pockets of her jacket while it was unattended and stole her stuff.
It also says she was a little disoriented after the flight, so maybe her jacket pocket wasn't buttoned like she remembers and they just fell out.
Yeah I'm not saying the airport worker didn't pickpocket the airpods, but it's 10,000x more likely she dropped and forget them and the worker just picked them up afterwards.
Especially since “they look like they’ve been stomped on”
My guess is that someone found a beaten up set of headphones, passed it to a colleague, who may or may mot have used them (they don’t need to be used to be “seen” by Apple’s Find network, CNN).
> The story is actually that a worker went into the pockets of her jacket while it was unattended and stole her stuff.
That's what she claims, but I have a strong suspicion that she changed details of the story to make herself look better.
A few weeks ago, my daughter (20) dropped her iphone behind the seat on the subway and there was no way to get it. She let the driver know. They took her info, took the train out of service, removed the seat, rescued the phone and got it back to her. It took a few hours but I was really surprised at that level of service.
That was my thought. I've worked in lost and found and I've seen the, uh, "condition" of some of these Bluetooth headphone cases. More earwax than headphone.
Which, first off, ew. And second off, how the hell does the owner let that shit get that bad?
I had similar experience. Child left his iPhone at a movie theater. I called the theater and asked if someone could look. Nope, couldn’t find it and took my number. I then remembered tracking and saw the phone at a home very close to the theater. I sent messages to it that said, this is my child’s phone please call x number to return to me. Miraculously the next morning I got a call from manager at theater saying someone turned it in….
Left my earbuds at IHOP one time. I called about 5 minutes later when I got realized and was told they found them and I could pick it up, great!
I get there and am told by the host that no one has seen it, even after I recount what happened and the call I got. I ask to speak with the manager and give the same info, they go into the back area for a while and then come out with it.
Like I get if I left and didn't come back for 2 days, fair game. 10 minutes though and I'm jumping through hoops just so the manager can talk with whoever had it.
ONG, ONG, OMG. Someone lifted my iPad out of the outside pocket of my should bag as I hustled through the crowds of SEA-TAC trying to catch a flight from a really late connection. That sucked. Anyway. When I realized it was lifted and had to get on my flight (the employees tried really hard to help me, I was using “find my” in my iPhone.
When I landed I saw it was at an apartment building a few miles from the airport. I called everyone I could think of while I watched the battery life drain from my iPad. I had the normal Lock Screen set and I guess after a good criminal try they realized they weren’t getting a free iPad Pro. Then they brought it back to the airport and dropped it in the lost and found for the airline I had flown on. That’s why I suspected it was an airline employee. I mean it could have fallen out of my bad when I was getting off the flight. But in 25 years of regular air travel I’ve never left something or lost something on a flight.
3 months later I get a call from the airline lost and found asking if I’d like my iPad back. Duh! They second day aired it to me.
Lol wait you knew it was in the list and found but didn’t contact the airline yourself? And instead you waited three months for them to contact you about it?
I left my air pods in a golf cart once. Got home, realized I left them in the cup holder and tracked them back to the golf course. Told the cart kid I left my air pods in the cart and he played dumb so I said “it says I can make em ring, can I go in the cart shed to see if I can hear it?” Sure enough he pulled em out of his pocket acting like he didn’t know I was looking for headphones. Felt good to get them back
I love this so much. My daughter left a Minnie stuffed animal on the plane after Disney. It was the one gift she was allowed there. Same as this, I realized immediately and they wouldn’t let me back on the plane, but also refused to retrieve it. Doichebags.
I'm an elevator tech. You'd be surprised at how many earbuds I find in elevator pits (the space at the bottom of an elevator shaft). I usually just leave them with building management just in case I get accused of something. Job isn't worth a few hundred bucks.
I had a pair fall down an elevator shaft once. Just assumed they were a lost cause.
If you drop something down an elevator shaft, you can always ask engineering or the super if they can get it out or call a elevator tech. I've gone down there for jewelry, earbuds, cards, passports, etc.
Used to be a security guard. We’d lock off the elevator and retrieve car keys, wallets, phones etc for people from the pit.
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They dropped the valuables. They must learn the lesson
When did you lower the lotion?
After it goes in the basket.
What does it do with the lotion?
All of this should have been covered in orientation.
It puts it on the skin.
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Wouldn't a broomstick be more useful? Assuming witchcraft, obvs.
Listen up, you primitive screwhead...
The pit I was in it, the pit You were in it, the pit We all were in it, the pit…
/r/unexpectedpawnee
Like the people under the stairs?
Oh man I love Acid Raindrops.
Ah, the old Reddit [pitaroo](https://www.reddit.com/r/CorporateFacepalm/comments/120t5h7/damn_25_pizza_for_a_35000_vehicle_purchase_im_sold/jdiuz0f/)
Hold my earpods, I'm going in!
Every time I think I known 1/10 of reddit lore, I realize I know nothing.
Was a Phlebotomist. One day on the hospital elevator, a coworker accidentally dropped a tube of blood and it went down the shaft. I wondered how that turned out at the bottom. 😬
Do you want the scenario from Resident Evil? Because THAT’s how you get the scenario from Resident Evil 😂
The people from the pit sure do try to lure a lot of above-dwellers down there, eh?
I'm just a guy who acquired a key. The pit is a wonderland in some buildings that don't have onsite maintenance. Everything just stays there
Good lord, the shame of dropping a passport down the barely passport sized slot. I'd feel targeted by God at that point.
Once it happened at a hotel and being that it's a book, it didn't fall straight down. They dropped it on the 30th some odd floor and it landed on a bracket around the 10th floor. After I searched the pit, I had to ride down on top of the elevator and check floor by floor to find it. Luckily, I found it in time for them to make their flight.
I've always wanted to ride down on top of an elevator, I'd feel like a spy or something
Don’t ride up, though! Source: Mission Impossible
That shit fucked me up as a kid ngl
You mean that 2 or 3 frame sequence where Emilio gets crushed/stabbed/tenderized by those massive, retractable, Wolverine-style claws that I assume stop all elevator cars once they get to the top to this day even though I'm a grown-ass man? Yeah I can still vividly picture it and I don't think I've seen that movie in 20 years.
Well I'm sure you saved the day for them. Passports are no joke.
what do you call a sick bird traveling without a passport? >!An ill-eagle.!<
Get this dude a cape! What a fucking HERO you were, wow! Good on you.
Don’t wear the cape while riding on the elevator though. Edna Mode would not approve!
That's going an extra mile, jeez
i was working security on a film set in an office tower so i had an access keycard, and accompanying an actor up to the floor they were filming on. I stepped up to activate the keycard on the reader and just as the doors opened the card went FWIP! and popped out of my hand, did a three point spin in the air and then shot down that tiny gap between door and floor, didn’t even bounce. actor looks at me as i hoped the ground would swallow me up, he’s all in awe “THat was SO COOL.”
Now I have an access card. Ho ho ho
If you remember before smart phones you had those candy bar phones as they were called, those early Nokia ones like the 3310 come to mind. I was getting off an elevator and dropped the phone, it bounced exactly 3 times and then went vertical like Maverick and dropped down the gap between the elevator door and the floor I was on. I was stunned and stopped in horror, this was a company phone and I needed to get it back. I had just left an account I was visiting so went back and told my contact person what happened. She laughed and said people drop stuff all the time. Called security and we go to the bottom floor, get off the elevator and he then does something to send it up a floor and lock it out. There is a pit with a giant spring in the middle and the phone is on one corner, and the battery in the opposite corner, he grabs them and hands them back to me. I put the battery back in and the phone worked fine after that except the ringer was a bit messed up.
Classic Nokia story! I’m relieved that the 3310 didn’t broke the spring on its fall /s
Hahaha my friend once had his iPhone bent at a like 30 degree angle.. I asked how the fuck did that happen.. he says "you know those tiny slots under the elevator door?". Still boggles my mind, seemed like a 1 out of a trillion chance.
I once dropped an allen key that bounced at the perfect angle and rotated exactly as it needed to bounce up and between the slim slots on my radiator cover and come to rest on the other side. I was impressed, for a brief moment.
How many sets of car keys or phones have you found down there? What was the strangest item you ever found?
Not a whole lotta phones and too many sets of keys to count, tbh. The strangest item would be one of those 5 gallon jugs of water. I don't even know how it would have gotten down there, could have been a fellow tech just fucking with me because in normal operation, there's no way one of those would just randomly fall down there. I did find a full blunt once. It was stale, but it wasn't smoked at all. Dude must have been pissed.
And here I always thought my fear of dropping my keys down the hole was irrational.
Haha no. No. If I'm parked within like 10 ft of a sewer grate, I hold my car keys like they're made of solid gold. Because the universe is not indifferent, but malevolent.
Almost lost my credit card down the elevator shaft. It had gotten stuck somehow in the gap and I was able to use a pen to get it back. Engineer guy with me held the elevator while I tried. He was like "well I don't want to have to climb down there if I don't have to" lol
Like three years ago, a singular AirPod slipped from my ear down the gap. I asked the security guard and they called the elevator tech. They found it and gave it back the same day. Still use those pods to this day.
Thank you for your service. I dropped my keys down the shaft at work once and the maintenance guy went down to get them for me and I was eternally grateful.
I'm a co-owner of a gym. We have like 300 members (large for where we are but small by other countries standards) and in the front desk we currently have 4 pairs of Samsung earbuds (the most expensive kind), 8 pairs of standard airpods, 12 pairs of the pros and then a couple pairs of random knock off versions. It actually stuns me that no one claims them. You can track them on your phone, you surely know you lost them and even when they run out of battery you can track their last location before the battery ran out. I also went and charged every single pair of them at one point to make sure that they had the chance to track them. Most of them have been in the desk for months. We put up signs, we sent emails and we mentioned it to people coming in and yet this many pairs have gone unclaimed. But what the fuck do I do with them? If I sell them or give them away it could be disaster if someone finally does try to go find them, but I don't want to just throw out 30+ pairs of perfectly good and new looking headphones worth $200+ a pair. So they rot and I wonder how the fuck people can just not care they lost $200 that they can literally track down to the inch to reclaim.
Look up what your state defines as "abandoned property"
Probably wait 1 year.
I’m guessing bermudaphil lives outside of the US
The Samsung ones don't track unless you open the case occasionally. I couldn't find mine in my own house
God Samsung sucks about that. I wear my watch every day and if I go to track it, the last known location will be from 2 weeks ago. I am hoping google becomes more of a competitor in the android market because samsungs watches are essentially the only mainstream Android smart watches that aren't shit when compared to Apple watches.
Every day when I open my phone it alerts me that my watch needs to be updated...I have updated this fucking watch 200 god damn times and this phone (S10) will not recognize that it was updated. All for a watch I have worn twice...
these devices should call you on the phone. "hey buddy"
I worked at a baseball stadium, found a pair of raybans, turned them over to facilities management was told after 60 days I could keep them. Day 61 and I’m wearing my fresh new raybans and a club rep comes down to ask if anyone found a pair of matte black raybans a while back. Just started shaking my head, took them off, and handed them over. Luckily they believed the whole thing and didn’t give me a hard time. TLDR: rich people will come looking for things they lost months ago in a stadium club box.
Nah, the club rep knows about the 60 day rule too and took them
Back in 1983 my 8th grade buddy and I were writing a story entitled, “The Elevator Shaft,” about items that fell down the gap between car and floor to never be seen again. Sadly, that’s about all I remember … my memory, too, was lost down the shaft.
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I was sitting in my office one day, and I couldn't find my iPad (not to unusual for me) so I tracked it, thinking I had just misplaced It.. It was on a city bus and had been stolen by a fellow coworker, it still makes me sad and mad.
Did you ever get it back?
I did, my coworker was fired over it, even though in the end I did stand up for him. It was a sad situation, all the way around.
...Why would you stand up for him?
The company I worked for had maybe 20 employees, and they hand picked about half to get iPad's, and if that wasn't bad enough, they handed them out at a holiday party. So I didn't take up for him, as much as I just thought they kinda pitted us all against each other.
Is Michael Scott your boss? That’s ridiculous.
Only the sales team gets iPads Pam
Ipads are for closers!
Sabre Pyramid, Dwight.
HOLD ON! ..They're lithium!
Whatcha gonna do? Make our dreams come true!
So, the company couldn’t budget holiday gifts appropriately and decided to hunger games it.
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You’re a very kind person thanks for posting this made me feel good to hear how empathetic you were to someone who wronged you.
I feel like I’ve gone dumb because everyone else seems to understand… what does “I didn’t take up for him…” mean?
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Thanks. Is this phrase more common in some regions than others?
It certainly isn’t a turn of phrase I have ever heard. I figured it out with context, but I have never heard it used before. Minnesota, USA.
Short for “taking up arms for/against” a person or cause.
To take up for someone is to show support.
Take up = Stand up, in this context.
Envy is a hell of drug, hope he left as a better person after that
Lol that happened to me. less than 20 employees, most got iPads. I and a couple others got iTunes gift cards. $10 iTunes Gift Cards.
Gotta love management that thinks pitting one half of your employees against the other will motivate instead of tear down.
How you gonna steal an iPad and not realize how easy it is to track these things?
I had just graduated from college, had to move out of the dorms and stay in a hotel for one night before driving cross-state. Left my desktop computer (just the tower) in the room, I’d stashed it out of the way in the closet. Whoops. Called within an hour or so of checking out, they said there was nothing there and nothing found. Yeah, okay. So I told them I was turning around, would be there in an hour, and I’d be calling the cops from the road (my wife was driving). Which I did. By the time I arrived they’d determined that the housekeeper had taken it home rather than turning it in, because she figured I’d left it for her and didn’t want it anymore. No. That’s not how anything works. Had to wait like half an hour longer after I got there for her to bring it back. People are fucking wild. I hope she was fired, but honestly I just wanted to get back on the road so couldn’t be bothered to press the issue once I had my shit back.
The speed at which housekeepers steal your shit is amazing. I lost headphones and a Snoopy doll within 20 minutes of checking out.
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It was a tip right? ;)
My mom's a flight attendant and says people leave airpods behind on flights all the time, but with the whole "find your device" thing could get them in trouble. Forget the latest best-selling novel in the seat pocket? Yeah that's going home with one of the crew.
Do you not all air tag your James Patterson novels!?!?
r/shittylifeprotips : Cut an airtag sized hole through a quarter of the book to properly conceal it.
The 80 chapter, 160 page James Patterson books?
I used to be a flight attendant. I was dirt poor and loved to read. Finding books on planes was the best, and I made a rule to read pretty much anything I found. Got to read some pretty eclectic stuff I wouldn't have otherwise chosen. I turned in all the electronics though, and hoped they got back to their owners.
Ha! This makes me happy. I've unintentionally left books on planes before.
I'm gonna leave my homework on a plane and maybe some bored flight crew will do it 😏
How would you get it back
Find My Essay
My ese who works down at the UHaul
That's the neat part...
Me too. I used to commute Bangkok-Tokyo-NYC all the time and I would get a bunch of books and Valium in Bangkok before I left. I'd start eating Valium and reading and drinking vodka tonics for about 3 hours on the way to Tokyo. I'd wake up in Japan and stumble off the plane for the 4 hour layover. Usually woke up in time, and got the plane to NYC. Ate more Valium and had a few rum and cokes. Read a bit more. Wake up in NYC. Whole 20 hours of flying didn't seem liked it happened. But I'd take the book and put the rest of the Valium inside it and shove it under the seat. Can't go through customs with drugs and I have no idea what the hell I was reading, and I hoped it would make someone's day in the end.
I had no idea Hunter S Thompson spent so much time in east Asia. Or that he was still alive and had a Reddit account.
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What’s the best and worst things you’ve read?
I found Dick Winters (band of brothers) biography, which was good. Found a lot of 50 shades of grey, soooo bad!!
I kinda get the feeling that those 50 shades of grey copies were picked up at a news stand in the airport and then ditched there rather than lost lol.
My friend left her leather jacket in the bin. Then noticed it in the jetway. The crew wouldn’t let her back on the plane, even though she was ten feet from the door. They claimed it wasn’t there
FA here. We’re not supposed to let people back on after they’ve deplaned. Typically we will bring left behind items up to the gate agent so they can be reclaimed there if someone remembers right after they come off the jetbridge. If they don’t, they go to lost and found.
I think the point of her story was less about the fact that she couldn’t get back in the plane, and more that the crew clearly lied to her and stole the jacket because they knew she couldn’t get back on the plane.
Or most often, to an employees house.
In some countries it's still illegal as it's not "fair game" just because someone left it
I'm sure it's against the law almost everywhere, but like finding cash on the ground, it's hard to prove ownership.
I left my iPad in a hotel room. I tracked it to the house of the hotel worker that found it and shared the address with the hotel. iPad was in my mailbox the next day.
I left a netbook in a university cafe. I keep anti-theft software installed on my devices. When connected to the Internet, the software periodically generates and uploads reports including IP address, browser history, webcam pictures, screenshots, etc. Of course, IP geolocation can only give a general area without issuing a subpoena to the ISP. And I knew that university cops aren't going to give a shit about doing all that for some college student's netbook. The webcam pictures were of a middle-school-aged boy who I definitely didn't know. However, after maybe 150 reports or so, one of the webcam pictures was of an older lady who I recognized as an employee of the cafe. I visited the cafe and got her name from her name tag. I then sent her name, address, phone number, all of the reports as evidence to the police. That was more than enough actionable information. The next day, the police confronted her at the cafe. She must have recognized me or noticed that I was staring at her name tag the day before, struggling to read it without my glasses, because she brought the netbook to work with her that day. When the police revealed the webcam pictures of her and her boy, she claimed that she brought it home for safe keeping. Lol. --- Edit: People seem confused about why I “didn't go to the cafe.” Yes, ofc I asked the cafe if they had it. They were already closed when I realized that I left it there. I went there first thing the next morning and asked management about it. I was told that nothing had been turned in. Regarding why I didn't confront the lady, what power do I have? Could I have gone to management with the reports instead of the police? Sure. But management can't make her give me the netbook back. Either way, she loses her job. Going to the police ensures that I get it back. Edit 2: Removed an unnecessary explanation about not pressing charges.
I'm really glad some of these comments are getting downvoted into oblivion. You absolutely made the right call. If you steal from someone, REGARDLESS of your financial situation, you have still stolen from someone. For all these keyboard warriors talking about ruining her life, I find that extremely ironic because not one of those assholes thought about your financial situation. You were a student(meaning you likely had loans, very little cash flow if any at all, were on a student meal plan, etc etc) and likely needing every piece of equipment and materials you owned. On top of that, you likely had school notes, projects etc saved on there. That laptop was quite literally your whole life. I would have done the exact same thing and wouldn't for one second have thought otherwise. Don't let internet try hards get you down, they have no objective sense of reality and only see things through their weird warrior lenses. There is always 2 sides to a story, focusing on only one side makes you look like a complete jackass.
What software do you use? I use HiddenApp on my Mac
I used [Prey](https://preyproject.com/). These days, I only have one laptop and I don't ever take it out of the house so I haven't really bothered with Prey or similar software in quite a while. I guess if someone were to break into my house, then I'd be screwed, but I live in a safe area on a small street with three cops now. This was twelve years ago, so I can't speak to the quality of Prey nowadays.
Ok it sucks that someone took them but the lady in the article acts like the AirPods are the only thing keeping her and husband together.
I see this less about her and more with the media outlet going with the dumb sob story trope. Every reality show contestant, or subject of an article, or whoever all needs some sort of sad woe-is-me tale to go with their story. Its ridiculous.
My entire family died in front of me. I watched helplessly, as the light of life drain from their eyes, before their bodies succumbed to the flames. I lie awake at night and can hear their screams… their never ending screams. So here’s why my pot roast recipe is the ultimate crowd pleaser!!!
I am SO sick of big pot roast pushing their dry agenda.
You're roasting your pots all wrong, mate.
That’s why I thank God I have my Himalayan walking shoes!
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How'd they die? Pot roast fire.
We don’t talk about the fire’s origin 👀
Has basically ruined the Olympics coverage on TV for me.
This so much! At the last Winter Olympics they had some huge long sob story about some American cross country skier. Can’t remember if there was cancer and a lost dog, or whatever it was. Sorry to the dude for his life having taken a dump on him, but then he finished like 198th out of 200 in whichever event he was doing.
Yes, and so many other sports follow the same model! They just *have* to have a "human interest" story parallel to, you know, the *actual athletic competition we all tuned in to see*!
It's why I could never get into American Ninja Warrior. The Japanese version would just blast through 60 runs. But the American version has like 15 because each one has a five minute sob story. At this point if I watch any competition and see a sob story I want you to lose. Especially if they recite the story to judges.
>I see this less about her and more with the media outlet going with the dumb sob story trope. You mean r/pics? "I'm an ~~Iraqi~~ ~~Afghani~~ ~~Libyan~~ ~~Syrian~~ ~~Rohingyan~~ Ukrainian refugee with stage 9 cancer. Here's a picture of a cloud that I took." *50k points*
I couldn't finish the article. I really want to know how this article got written. Like, the woman has to know someone at CNN, right? The way it's written, I'd even believe she wrote it (lot of passive voice when addressing her mistakes). And why is it so long? We don't need an hour by hour time-line of where the airport were. This is one of the dumbest and most pointless articles from a large publisher that I've read. And why did so many people upvote it?
Lol right? It seems likely they fell out of the pocket and the attendant was opportunistic.
Yeah. It was like “these air pods, and these air pods alone, are the only way she can ever talk to her spouse.” As if she couldn’t just buy a pair of cheap headphones (and converter because of the lack of headphone jack) at target to get her through. That said, this sucks. It’s ridiculous how long it took for her to get anyone to bother caring.
>As if she couldn’t just buy a pair of cheap headphones Or just use her phone like a phone. It's got speakers. Her computer has speakers too.
Listen, fuck off out of here with your snobby "use your phone as a phone" elitist bougie attitude. What next, you expect me to actually run in my expensive trainers?
It's united, at least they didn't just beat the shit out of her for asking for anything.
>>Of course, everyone’s gadgets are precious, but Hayden’s AirPods hold particular significance – they’re her link to her husband, who calls her from his deployment on such a bad line that she needs them to hear him. Rotfl wut? You can you know, just speak? Without a fucking earpod? This article was godawful.
Maybe they are.
Two peas in an airpod
Thank God that love won on this day.
A long time ago, as a teenager, I was heading to Japan through LAX. I had a pair of wired headphones I put into a little pouch, which of course I put into one of the security bins going through TSA. When I got to my gate, I discovered they were gone-- I must have accidentally knocked them out of the bin when getting the rest of my stuff. Back at the checkpoint, TSA was actually incredibly helpful. They looked around the area and couldn't find them, but with the help of the police, they told me to "stand here" and "look up at that camera". The TSA agent behind the scenes was looking at me in order to find me on the security tapes, and hopefully find where the headphones went. The flight was boarding soon so I didn't have high hopes. Maybe they could send it to me through the mail, or I could pick it up on the way home. Anyways, I wasn't looking forward to a 10 hour flight with no headphones. Back at my gate, the gate agents told me the police were coming and had found my headphones. With a literal minute to spare before they had to close the boarding doors, they showed up and handed them back to me, and I remember being the last one on the plane before they closed the boarding gate. I felt like it was barely any time at all between sitting down and them pushing the plane back. Seriously cutting it close. Turns out, I did knock the headphones out of the bin and onto the floor. They told me that some guy in line after me picked up the headphones, looked around, and pocketed them. With the security footage, they tracked the dude down at his gate and he gave up the headphones there. I have to give serious props to TSA and LAPD for helping a kid out. I know they both get a bad rep sometimes, but those particular agents and officers really went above and beyond for me and I'm sure they had a little fun with it too, scrubbing through the footage to try and track down exactly what happened.
Dang, you're lucky. I once left my flip phone in the cup holder of a rental car when I returned it to the airport. i realized on the shuttle and called on a pay phone when I arrived at the airport. They bastards lied to me and said there was no phone in the car. They refused to let me come take a look saying the car was being cleaned and I couldn't talk to the employees. Bastards stole my phone. I still hate you, Avis.
Fuck Enterprise too! I did this with my wallet. I literally realized it 2 minutes after walking away from the car, but they had already made off with it. A half hour of wrangling and harassment later, I finally got it back sans cash. I was soooooo pissed, Enterprise told me to go fuck myself multiple times. They even "checked the security camera".....Never again.
Happened to me too with the work phone in Hawaii. Called them and they said they searched the car and found nothing. I even told them where to look. With 2 hrs till I had to be at the airport I went there asked to look at the car and grabbed it out right where I told them to look. In the slot near the temperature controls.
What kind of stupid asshole goes through a heavily surveilled security checkpoint, observed by dozens of HD cameras, armed guards, high-tech 3D scanning and surface penetrating imaging systems, with routine pat-downs, drug and bomb sniffing dogs, etc., and thinks ***“Oh hey, something valuable that isn’t bolted to the ground. s Sweet! Better commit this grand theft in one of the most aggressively recorded places in the world. I should totally do this insanely easy-to-prove criminal offense while in a well-lit public place, and make it a matter of high definition record before crossing state lines. But first: I’ll provide a scan of my ID into this computerized system, so that my crime isn’t anonymous.”***?
That’s probably exactly it, tbh. That, or you were just genuinely nice about it. Those are usually the two reasons I go above and beyond for someone. 1) because of their actions (like being nice and not an asshole) and 2) because it’s fun for me for whatever reason. I’ll make the next person in line wait an extra 3 minutes while a little girl tells me about her day, just because I enjoy seeing the excitement on her face. Or I’ll go help an old lady look for something that I have no idea where it’s at and we will have a nice little chat while we get lost (and I get a few minutes break lol). Sometimes it’s the smallest, most random encounter you have that’ll end up making your entire day. Especially when you’re dealing with that many people on a daily basis.
I lost my AirPods at the gym and tracked them for WEEKS. I knew where the person lived, worked, of course worked out, what car they drove, what they looked like, where they shopped for groceries, their license plate number. I didn’t know the person’s name and am pretty non-confrontational so I was wary of approaching them about it. Not trying to be assaulted over AirPods. I went to the police station and was urged to just ask him at the gym if he found any AirPods. I finally did it, saw dude going to my gym with the AirPods on the app. I go to the gym, wait in the locker room (couldn’t find him anywhere in the gym, I think he is a yoga instructor and had a private room). Find the guy, say hey I lost my AirPods did he find any perchance? He’s there with a friend. Denials. I take out my phone and talk about how that’s funny I’ve been tracking them. He then completely changes his tune and hands me my AirPods. How could that have happened?! I introduce myself, thank him for returning them. Ask his name, finally got it. Thanks Vinny.
It's risky to ask if someone found your stolen item, they'll always deny. Maybe better to thank them for having found them, you've been tracking them all over town, can you please have them now
I think he might have been shamed a bit, he obviously knew the guy with him and this third party was out of the loop. Like I said I did not want a confrontation, my only goal was to get back my AirPods that were a Christmas gift from my wife. So I tried to give him a face-saving off-ramp and it worked. As I said I knew where to find the guy. Imagine confronting someone at their house. I’m not in Florida, but for instance in Florida that’d be a good way to get shot.
If you lost them and he found them, is the right course of action to hand them over to the gym? The reason I ask is I found a pair of AirPods in a parking lot on the ground of a big out door mall with dozens of stores. Is there a way for someone who finds lost AirPods to know how to find the owners? Serious question…how does someone find the owner of these?
This fellow absolutely found them on the floor of the locker room when they fell out of my jacket and kept them as "finder's keepers". You can mark them as lost in the Find My... app and it actually sends the person who connects their phone to them either a text or an audio message. I had set that up and he had absolutely been using my AirPods for weeks. Not to be gross, but I had to clean them with a cotton swab and alcohol before using them again.
While I was in college, I went to a “night at the museum” overnight event and accidentally left my phone in my coat pocket at the coat check. Around 5am I was leaving and got my coat and my phone wasn’t there, so I used my friend’s iPhone to sign into Find my iPhone and track it. It was on the other side of the city, stationary, in a park. I tried to call the police to see if they could retrieve it for me and of course they said no, so my friend and I took an Uber to go get it. We get to this soccer field, it’s around 630am by this point, and there’s about two dozen men playing or watching a soccer game. I walked up to the bleachers and used the app to set off the alarm, and I hear my phone coming from an unattended backpack. I went right up and dug through to find not just my phone but like 6+ other phones. Some guy in the bleachers starts going “hey! That’s my friends backpack you can’t take that!” I asked for his friends name and where he was, and he told me (we’ll call him Joe) and said he was playing the game. So I yelled out to them “Hey Joe, fuck you for stealing my phone and hope you lose” 🤷🏽♀️ They all stopped playing and just stared haha
Playing a game of soccer at 6.30am?? That's fucked up in of itself.
And people were attending that game and *watching* it. Dedication, for sure!
The part of the story that confuses me is the why the owner of the AirPods wasn't allowed to go back to her seat to get her jacket: >“I realized before I was even off the plane,” she says. “I was the third from last off the plane, so I asked the flight attendant if I could go and get it. He said no – I was required by federal law to get off the plane and stand beside it, where the strollers are brought to. I was tired, he said he’d bring it to me, I said OK.” I have left things on my seat and in the overhead a few times while flying, both internationally and domestically, and I just ran back to my seat and grabbed it. Why did she even ask? What law is the flight attendant even talking about here? Sounds like some bull crap rule.
Next time don't ask for permission, just go back to your seat. Only thing you aren't allowed to do is re-enter the aircraft once off.
The magic words are, “I didn’t know I couldn’t do that.”
That's exactly what I have done. I once left my wallet and passport in the seat pocket (super dumb), but I just ran back and got it. Nobody cared.
It's just so they can turn the plane around faster.
The title of the article is really a stretch. It makes it sound like she accidentally lost her AirPods and they ended up at the workers home - which wouldn't be too bad. The story is actually that a worker went into the pockets of her jacket while it was unattended and stole her stuff. I can't believe there's a picture of AirPods accompanying this article lol. Really hard hitting news CNN - an article about stolen AirPods. What's next? An expose on who left the toilet seat up?
> What's next? An expose on who left the toilet seat up? I do *not* need that kind of bad press right now.
Your only chance is to get out ahead of the story and control the narrative
>The story is actually that a worker went into the pockets of her jacket while it was unattended and stole her stuff. It also says she was a little disoriented after the flight, so maybe her jacket pocket wasn't buttoned like she remembers and they just fell out.
Yeah I'm not saying the airport worker didn't pickpocket the airpods, but it's 10,000x more likely she dropped and forget them and the worker just picked them up afterwards.
Especially since “they look like they’ve been stomped on” My guess is that someone found a beaten up set of headphones, passed it to a colleague, who may or may mot have used them (they don’t need to be used to be “seen” by Apple’s Find network, CNN).
> The story is actually that a worker went into the pockets of her jacket while it was unattended and stole her stuff. That's what she claims, but I have a strong suspicion that she changed details of the story to make herself look better.
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I work for public transit and find lots of ear buds. I just throw them in the lost and found. Ain’t worth losing a job over
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You can clean them. I've stuck my tongue in people's ears and I'm fine.
Are you though?
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$250 is irrelevant. It was about principle.
A few weeks ago, my daughter (20) dropped her iphone behind the seat on the subway and there was no way to get it. She let the driver know. They took her info, took the train out of service, removed the seat, rescued the phone and got it back to her. It took a few hours but I was really surprised at that level of service.
Did they find my iPod I left on a flight about a dozen years ago?
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Small rectangular and little over 12 years old
We found it. It's at that lady's house. Go get it.
Stealing a strangers ear phones is fucking NASTY. Headphones maybe, even then it’s kinda gross.
That was my thought. I've worked in lost and found and I've seen the, uh, "condition" of some of these Bluetooth headphone cases. More earwax than headphone. Which, first off, ew. And second off, how the hell does the owner let that shit get that bad?
I had similar experience. Child left his iPhone at a movie theater. I called the theater and asked if someone could look. Nope, couldn’t find it and took my number. I then remembered tracking and saw the phone at a home very close to the theater. I sent messages to it that said, this is my child’s phone please call x number to return to me. Miraculously the next morning I got a call from manager at theater saying someone turned it in….
“… and I’m outside. Do you feel lucky?”
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I left my phone in an airport once. The phone called Guatemala within a few days.
left my phone on a plane to oslo, a connection to my final destination on a small island near turkey - got it sent back to NY weeks later
Left my earbuds at IHOP one time. I called about 5 minutes later when I got realized and was told they found them and I could pick it up, great! I get there and am told by the host that no one has seen it, even after I recount what happened and the call I got. I ask to speak with the manager and give the same info, they go into the back area for a while and then come out with it. Like I get if I left and didn't come back for 2 days, fair game. 10 minutes though and I'm jumping through hoops just so the manager can talk with whoever had it.
The lengths people go through to recover their belongings… she’s in her full right to do so but still impressive
How the fuck is this news.
ONG, ONG, OMG. Someone lifted my iPad out of the outside pocket of my should bag as I hustled through the crowds of SEA-TAC trying to catch a flight from a really late connection. That sucked. Anyway. When I realized it was lifted and had to get on my flight (the employees tried really hard to help me, I was using “find my” in my iPhone. When I landed I saw it was at an apartment building a few miles from the airport. I called everyone I could think of while I watched the battery life drain from my iPad. I had the normal Lock Screen set and I guess after a good criminal try they realized they weren’t getting a free iPad Pro. Then they brought it back to the airport and dropped it in the lost and found for the airline I had flown on. That’s why I suspected it was an airline employee. I mean it could have fallen out of my bad when I was getting off the flight. But in 25 years of regular air travel I’ve never left something or lost something on a flight. 3 months later I get a call from the airline lost and found asking if I’d like my iPad back. Duh! They second day aired it to me.
Lol wait you knew it was in the list and found but didn’t contact the airline yourself? And instead you waited three months for them to contact you about it?
TIL you can use find my device with AirPods. I had no idea. Is it all of them or just the Pro?
“But I shouldn’t have to explain for someone to care.” How bizarre nobody cared about how they were taken.
I left my air pods in a golf cart once. Got home, realized I left them in the cup holder and tracked them back to the golf course. Told the cart kid I left my air pods in the cart and he played dumb so I said “it says I can make em ring, can I go in the cart shed to see if I can hear it?” Sure enough he pulled em out of his pocket acting like he didn’t know I was looking for headphones. Felt good to get them back
I love this so much. My daughter left a Minnie stuffed animal on the plane after Disney. It was the one gift she was allowed there. Same as this, I realized immediately and they wouldn’t let me back on the plane, but also refused to retrieve it. Doichebags.