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Some good news for anyone who has been the victim of cellphone theft: Evan's Stolen Sidekick Soap Opera has reached its conclusion:
Update #51 June 20th, 10:05 p.m. Wow... I have no words to express how I feel right now. Vindication, appreciation, relief.... Just some of the words I can think of...It's OVER. The police picked up Sasha on Thursday night. They also got the Sidekick back. My friend is picking it up tonight. For all the doubters that thought the story was made up, that I was doing this for money, that it was a viral ad, that I had the wrong people.... You are now proven wrong. All in all, you few naysayers don't matter. What matters is all the people that did support the very IDEA of this story...that morality IS important to you. That doing the wrong thing will NOT prevail over doing the right thing. And to show that, my friend is NOT going to press charges against this girl. We both feel that she has learned her lesson. We are not vengeful people. We just wanted what was right...and what was right was for someones property to be returned.
All it took was creating a blog, doing 51 posts, garnering 3000+ links from outraged readers, and two straight weeks of non-stop work. Oh, and a full-page New York Times article. Next mystery we'd like the internet to solve: who keeps stealing those little valve caps off the wheels of our bike? That's just outrageously annoying!
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All they had to do was give it back to him...
Sucks to be them. Kudos to the dude who got his Sidekick back.
Internet vigilantism at it's worse and this is just the beginning.
The obsession this guy had was disturbing. Things get lost in this city all the time. You would think all the time he spent on this would be put into better use. IT'S JUST MATERIAL GOODS, NO BIG DEAL.
Go ahead and flame me but you can bet your ass if I found something, I will never return it now because of this guy.
deathwishinternetstyle you wuss! Ok Perhaps he did go a little too far but its not like he went to the guy's house and threated his family. He just wanted his sidekick back and they treated him like a dick when he asked for it to be returned.
They're just lucky he didnt press charges.
Threatened ^
Wanna bet that there were some yahoos going to the address?
This is the INTERNET.
That's why I put up IR cams outside my residence with access to it from my PC.
You lost it, you won't get it back if I found it.
Again, it's just a material item.
Should press charges IMHO
Are you kidding me that she gets off that easy? She didnt learn any lesson and would probably do it again if she has the chance. Perhaps a night in jail along with her mom, and brother would change their minds.
She's a minor, no can do, booboo.
What would pressing charges do, except to waste the taxpayers money. Don't the police have better things to do? for instance, arrest bikers and beat people up?
lookee here, I found a sidekick, what should I do with it?
Dumb blackgirl tried to mess with white geek. This is actually how Beauracracy can work for a change. It's like that SNL skit where Mike Myers gets slighted by a restaurant and writes disparaging letters to the management which causes them to get on their hands and knees for forgiveness cause he writes so well.
Dumb Bitch needs to shave her moustache.
Don't the caps on your bike tires just fall off when you are riding around? I always assumed that was why they always vanished.
wasn't there something important on the sidekick, i remember reading something about one of the girls not getting visa because she coulnd't present the emails that were on the sidekick. Now, first..if it's so important why the hell u keep your emails on sidekick for gods sake without a copy at home computer or somewhere else safer. Second this whole thing is pretty impressive, how within 2 weeks millions of people know about it...wow, i think he took the whole thing little too far but if those dumbasses agreed to just return it in the first place for a reward then it wouldn't. Not like it matters much but i don't think she's black but more like latina from Corona. And u gotta be pretty dumb to keep the sim card and start taking pictures and loggin in to aol...duuuuumb
The mother said she bought the sidekick from someone on the subway for $50. Come on now, she had to know that it was stolen.
Doesn't the law says that if you knowingly purchase stolen property, it can be confiscated from you without compensation?
That entire family sounds like a bunch of wack-a-doos.
Those plastic caps on your valves are entirely useless, Jake. Try to let them go. You'll feel better.
People put pebbles in the tire valve so it will leak air. (put pebble in valve, put cap back on to press on the stem) As long as your tire valves are clean of debris, you don't need the valve caps.
if you leave your $350 gadget in a cab then you deserve to lose it. and if you can afford to buy a new one then get over it! i woulda done the same if i was sasha. jeez! i don't get white people sometimes...
That girl, Sasha, with the phone is only 16 years old and she already has a baby. She also seems to like posting skank pictures of herself. Gotta feel real sorry for that baby.
Hey Tuff (16), it's called STEALING and it's WRONG! It's basic human decancy and Sasha's family has no concept of it obviously. If no one claimed it, it's water under the bridge, but the owner contacted them and simply asked for it back. I don't see how race has anything to do with it in any way. Simply because you can afford to buy things does not mean you DESERVE to not have what's rightfully yours.
sucks for her. too bad they didn't press charges.
I think it's the principle. The fact that she could have easily given it back because he asked. He called and asked for his property back because he knew she had it. So if you lost a credit card or backpack and knew who had it or was able to contact who had it, are you saying you wouldn't? Yesterday I people in a woman's lost cell phone because I wanted to return it to her. Now this woman had 5,000 rollover minutes that I could have gladly used and did whatever with, but I'd rather do what I would want others to do for me. She offered me $10 for a reward. I suggested she keep that too.
Sasha, you suck. If your mother and brother were behind this, I can hardly blame you for being the rotten human that you are. How can you be 16 and your boyfriend (father of your child?) is 24 or 26? Sounds like the police and DYFS should be paying your Corona home a little visit...Your baby should be taken away from you so he has a chance to grow up honest and with some morals.
Evan, you rock. You took action without compromising yourself or others. I think that's amazing.
Think twice before you steal or lie folks. Karma is a biatch.
DYFS, you mean ACS.
That evan guy is a wierdo, plain and simple.
the sidekick was lost, not stolen.
What was stolen was the productivity and resources many used to be a private detective/vigilante following this loser.
lookin4luv, so you'e saying that if someone loses a valuable item and you find it, you're the new owner? Regardless of how easy it might be to find the real owner?
Sorry--but the law and common decency say you're wrong. This is what should distinguish human beings from lower life forms. Are things different in your world?
Please, get off your high horse.
Things are very different in my world,
We don't bitch and whine over silly things,
We take responsibility for our mistakes,
and the most important Golden Rule,
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
O good, according to Jay Paul Kersey, that means I can shove him into a ditch, rip out his wallet, and claim everything inside. That's my kinda world!
sure, you can try.
but you won't get far, I've lived in this city for almost half a century and seen it all.
but you may have to face my little friends.
JPK, you seem to be confused about your rules. The "Golden Rule" is "do onto others as you would have them do unto you." It's not "finders, keepers; losers, weepers."
Next mystery we'd like the Internet to solve: who keeps stealing those little valve caps off the wheels of our bike?
About a year ago, I purchased the love of my life. It didn't cost me much and I wanted an old Volvo since my ex wrecked the last one. Finally, I found one I could afford and one that wasn't too beat up. Anyway, a month into my owning the damn thing, someone broke the top of antennae off. I know, it doesn't sound like a big deal but I was raging with anger. My husband says to me, "Ah, crackheads." And then he explained himself.
I had no idea that crackheads will use an antenna to smoke out of if they're desperate. Either way, they screwed with my car. I was so angry.
To make this long story even longer, I wonder if the stolen bikes tire air stoppers are used for smoking crack. Probably not. Who knows.
I hope that my comment doesn't enrage the crackhead reading audience of Gothamist.