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it was just chilling there on the sidewalk near a very busy intersection. i figured the women ahead of me just dropped it but when i approached her and asked "did you drop anything back there?", she didn't know wtf I was talking about.

so i'm sitting here with an ipod touch that's key locked, what exactly can i do with it? i'd return it but i doubt ill ever find the person, is there a way i can just reboot it?

edit: and what if this is a phone? would i be able to tell? i have never been near one of these.
 
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The amount of time isn't the issue; what you actually did is the issue. You did more than enough.

dino, the fact that you cite Chris fucking Hanson to support your argument automatically kills it. The hell is wrong with you?
 
[quote name='Bronson-Lee']The amount of time isn't the issue; what you actually did is the issue. You did more than enough.

dino, the fact that you cite Chris fucking Hanson to support your argument automatically kills it. The hell is wrong with you?[/QUOTE]

Care to elaborate? I don't see your point except that you dislike Chris Hanson.

Some of the scenarios in that dateline store are similar to what OP did (finding and taking unattended iPods). That is the main reason I said to read it.
 
[quote name='JP']Yeah the password would have been a great identifier too. Only the person who lost it would have known the password.[/QUOTE]
I feel like so many people missed this obvious answer =\, Seriously 4 hours is nothing, what can you really do in 4 hours? I mean I can call sony and spent an hour and a half dealing with the message service trying to get someone to talk to. The best solution would be to just put up flyers and ask for the password which you destroyed... even if random people tried the chances they would be right is 1/9,999... so even if someone got lucky, I would say you did more than enough there!
 
I have plenty of other information that can be used for fliers, read the thread please. I'll probably put a couple of fliers up since I'll be walking around tomorrow.

And once again, you all can go fuck yourself. I was the probably the best person besides a cop to pick this thing up (and even that can be arguable). Once the fliers are up I will have literally done everything in my power -- besides turning it in at a police station, and fuck that.

I don't even need the damn thing, it's just sitting around.
 
[quote name='dinobot']Care to elaborate? [/QUOTE]

No.

To be blunt, Hanson is a hack, and Dateline hasn't had credibility in years. That story in particular is epic amounts of entrapment. The source you're citing has no credibility, so why cite it?

Getting on this guy's gat for -not doing enough- is garbage, when he clearly did. Get off your moral high horse, because the guy's already on his. :D
 
Also, sometimes getting the files back are more important than the device itself. You could have waited to reformat it. You don't know what you could have cost them.. If you are going to keep something then do it. Don't earase it and then try to find the person.
 
I lost a brand new 16gb ipod touch in my local post office. My folks where so freaking pissed off at me since they got it for my birthday. After that I just left ipod all together and bought a zune.
 
My GF found an iphone 3G last year. the screen was completely shattered. She took it home and immediately took out the sim card just in case anyone was looking for it. Then after a replacement screen came in from eBay, she fixed it up, jailbroke and unlocked it, and permanently switched from her little cheesy phone. She has no problems that she did this.
 
[quote name='panzerfaust']i figured the women ahead of me just dropped it but when i approached her and asked "did you drop anything back there?", she didn't know wtf I was talking about..[/QUOTE]

If you dropped your wallet, phone, etc.. without knowing, and someone asked if you dropped something back there do you really believe you'd say "Yes I dropped my wallet!". What a retarded way of going about this.

And people saying he had no practical options. Well yes he did. He says it's Password protected right? Well put up some flyers and ask around. Anyone who provides the correct password is likely the owner (or really fucking lucky). He could have done this with the girl instead of beating around the bush trying to see if she'd realize she dropped something.
 
[quote name='ssjmichael']If you dropped your wallet, phone, etc.. without knowing, and someone asked if you dropped something back there do you really believe you'd say "Yes I dropped my wallet!". What a retarded way of going about this.

And people saying he had no practical options. Well yes he did. He says it's Password protected right? Well put up some flyers and ask around. Anyone who provides the correct password is likely the owner (or really fucking lucky). He could have done this with the girl instead of beating around the bush trying to see if she'd realize she dropped something.[/QUOTE]


If someone came up to me and asked me if I dropped something the first thnig I would do is CHECK to see if I did drop something! Wow! What a shocker!
 
[quote name='ssjmichael']If you dropped your wallet, phone, etc.. without knowing, and someone asked if you dropped something back there do you really believe you'd say "Yes I dropped my wallet!". What a retarded way of going about this.

And people saying he had no practical options. Well yes he did. He says it's Password protected right? Well put up some flyers and ask around. Anyone who provides the correct password is likely the owner (or really fucking lucky). He could have done this with the girl instead of beating around the bush trying to see if she'd realize she dropped something.[/QUOTE]

Two problems with your master logic:

1: If someone asks me that, you know what I do? Check everything in my pockets. Common sense.

2: If he asks her if she dropped an iPod Touch, the fuck do you think she's going to say? Negativo?!
 
[quote name='Bronson-Lee']Two problems with your master logic:

1: If someone asks me that, you know what I do? Check everything in my pockets. Common sense.

2: If he asks her if she dropped an iPod Touch, the fuck do you think she's going to say? Negativo?![/QUOTE]

Can you fucking read? I said the way to test if it is indeed hers is if SHE KNOWS THE PASSWORD. If she gives him the right pw and it unlocks the device, you think it wouldn't be hers? R.I.F.

And it's the way he asked that I have a problem with. Walking up to someone and saying "did you drop something back there" without any sort of context as to the reason why they're asking would no doubt get a WTF kind of reaction from many people, especially girls. The main reason someone would ask that is if they saw something drop from that person. Like I said, it was a retarded way of going about asking. Who knows how he really even said it. Considering how shady he seems, it wouldn't surprise me if he did in such a manner that it wouldn't raise any suspicion with the person. But whatever, like I've written above, there was a much better way to do it
 
[quote name='ssjmichael']Can you fucking read? I said the way to test if it is indeed hers is if SHE KNOWS THE PASSWORD. If she gives him the right pw and it unlocks the device, you think it wouldn't be hers? R.I.F.

And it's the way he asked that I have a problem with. Walking up to someone and saying "did you drop something back there" without any sort of context as to the reason why they're asking would no doubt get a WTF kind of reaction from many people, especially girls. The main reason someone would ask that is if they saw something drop from that person. Like I said, it was a retarded way of going about asking. Who knows how he really even said it. Considering how shady he seems, it wouldn't surprise me if he did in such a manner that it wouldn't raise any suspicion with the person. But whatever, like I've written above, there was a much better way to do it[/QUOTE]

I don't know what hell you live in, but asking people if they dropped something usually does not elicit a HOLY SHIT POLICE reaction from anybody, much less females.

It was in no way a retarded way of asking; the way you're describing, is to be blunt, stupid as hell. It'd be even creepier to ask someone if they knew the password to that iPod Touch, completely out of the blue. Flyers would be fine, but more honestly, if you're storing stuff on a Touch that isn't on a comp, you're an idiot.

Thanks for being a twat, by the way. Good to know they still multiply on CAG. Also good to know that trying to give find the owner of an iPod Touch=Being Shady.
 
I find the responses in this thread awfully impressive. I'm not sure if reading the thread would technically make you guys less of assholes, but at least try. Fliers are going up tomorrow. If you read my posts, you would also know that wiping the password does not mean I can't use other specific information that only the owner would know (wallpaper, skin, model, date etc...)

I'm making a legitimate attempt to return this thing and half of you either don't read the thread or have the nerve to assume that I'm lying about everything. Didn't realize CAG was so full of these kinds of people until I posted in this section.

And honestly? Criticizing me on asking someone if they dropped something? I didn't even know how to turn the thing on when I picked it up, my first reaction was to look around for people to ask. I had the thing extended in front of me when I asked her, and continued to have it out the entire walk back (again, this was from previous posts of mine).

But yeah, don't believe anything I'm saying, because I'm a thief and for some reason I'm just making a thread to lie to people. Thanks to the people who understood the situation and gave good advice, and I know I didn't handle everything PERFECTLY -- but I'm just going to lock this shit because there's nothing else to do but listen to socially retarded CAGs like ssj.
 
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