Only if it's blatantly intentional. If you "accidentally" kick it into a sewer drain...well...them's the brakes. Also, I would argue in court that the dumbshit should've never lost it, to begin with.
koe ko The reality is that this is simply an insurance scam. The individual is simply claiming it was stolen so he can make an insurance claim on his property.
koe ko yeah, A thief would have factory resetted it and sold it or keep it. not respond to a text and return it to the owner. I gave someone back their wallet in my home country and they appreciated it and thanked me. When i found a phone in a store a few months back I held onto it and when the owner asked if I saw a phone and i asked her to describe it and she gave me an incredible amount of grief for trying to do the right thing. I think I'll let a dishonest person steal it next time.
I didn't scroll through all of the comments, so just in case...a local attorney took Rick's case at no cost and got the charge dismissed. The good guy prevailed afterall!
A similar thing happened to me! I returned a lost iPhone and the police decided to question me about it because it was stolen! The couple who lost the phone called the police on me to question me on how I found the phone. I was shocked! Here’s me trying to do a good deed and this is what I got. I will never ever return anything that’s not mine again.
10 years ago I found a phone in a parking lot. I was able to open it and call someone in the contacts to find out who it belonged to. I had the rightful owner come to where I was to retrieve it. I thought the person was thankful but one hour later the cops show up saying I stole it. Luckily there was security footage from the place I was working at that cleared me. But I still had to pay like $3000 in legal fees to get the charges dropped.
@@mourka01 Many would consider it an act of good citizenship to try to get that phone to the owner. It is risky to touch the wallet, yes, but that person may be willing to take that risk for the sake of feeling good about him/herself for doing an act of kindness.
Ted Miller - Sadly that isn't inconceivable either lol. "Owner of iPhone charged with littering after accidentally dropping phone on the ground and not realizing."
I know you're just being facetious but even saying that as a joke defeats the purpose. A better statement would be "Now see kids, this is what's wrong with the law and why a police officer should treat each case independently and not classify or categorize them." When a law is counterintuitive, it's time to pull together to change the law instead of circumventing it.
Yeah... let them burn.. They might sue by saying the person that tried to save me gave me a broken ankle or broke something valuable while trying to save me from the exploding house.
If his intent was to "steal" the phone why in the world would he have returned it to the Subway at all? No wonder the courts are so overwhelmed if things like this happen.
+twopoint Takedown Any of them. All the stores are on the same property. You think the businesses don't have a way to communicate about lost property recovered on their premises?
I found an iPhone at walmart once at a register sitting near the CC terminal, I asked the cashier if they knew who it belonged to, to which they didn't, and they didn't care because of the stockpile of customers behind me in line. I took the phone in hand, paid for my groceries and took them to my car. Went back in to the customer service desk and stood in line to turn the phone over to them, and heard a lady talking to one of the associates there about a lost phone. I approached her and asked what type of phone it was, and what color, turned out to be her phone. I handed it over and she accused me of stealing it because I didn't bring it to the service desk immediately. I said lady, I'm not putting my life on hold to return something you left lay around, handed it to her and left. Some people are incredibly ungrateful...
I once found someone's wallet, so I took it to the police thinking I was doing a good deed. They treated me like a criminal. "what were you doing there, did you steal any of the money, did you consume any drugs, do you do drugs, give me your id..."
We know phones didn't exist yet but I don't think something like this would have happened back in the 80's assuming it was a wallet or something valuable. But today?? We live in a shit hole society with a bunch of unqualified idiots in the legislative branch. That includes the judges and district attorney's. Nothing but pathetic imbeciles. The laws are backwards and pretty much only favor the one who supplies the most Benjamins.
They’re definitely just saying that cover their asses. The police probably want to appear impartial in a case like this, but it’s just common sense that this whole thing makes no sense.
Even if it was a law, that would be a very fucking specific law, you can't expect even 1% of people to know that. If people want to do the right thing, they should be allowed to use their own judgment within reason. Why should good deeds be done in such a particular way to not have to face consequences?
If I found a phone I would see if someone calls it first as well. Usually that's what people do if lose their phone, they call it. This world is crazy. You can't even try to do good deeds anymore without getting in trouble.
I returned a wallet one time about 5 days after I found it. I was raising 5 children, one very disabled. I had other priorities at the time. And a bit of exhaustion. When I finally had a moment, and was able to track down the person, find a phone number, I called to hook up and return it.......they were grateful. And I never heard from any police. Oh, and they even stopped by one day with a basket of fruit for the kids.
David Jones Whenever I see phones on the ground, I put them in my car and toss them in rivers. Someone tried to get me for theft a couple months ago. I'm not playing games anymore lmao. Good luck finding your shit!
David Jones So true, whether it be for issues like this, or liability and threat of lawsuit. Just isn't worth the risk these days, to be a good samaritan.
Ian Battles Is only a few of them while the rest, are actually honest, but the mainstream media just makes it worse, not telling the whole story making it look there's more, which leads to people targeting them, which will force the targeted polices defend themselves and the MSM Reported as though the cop did the targeting, which will get more angry people to target them and the cycle of death continues.
Terry Russel --- Ain't the world just fucking wonderful?! I moved to 6 country acres in the mis-eastern part of the country and am hunkered down, because I know that things are only going to get worse. No common sense, no justice, no hope for mankind.
Good Luck and God Help U.S. ! Remember ! keep your farming gear, animals, harvest and storage equipment, Seed Vault and water source under lock and key, as well as powder dry and weapons handy but well hidden !
There was a case where a person sued a guy for pulling them through some poison ivy, while the man risked his own life to pull them out of a burning car. Now that's gratitude for ya...Pathetic !!!
my son and I found a phone and called the person he/she called last and asked her to call her friend the owner to call us back. The owner called back and asked us to drop it off where she work which was on the other side of town. Really?………… not even a thank you. She sounded like she’s doing us the favor. We turned it in to the nearest AT&T outlet.
Exactly, people get rewarded for being selfish all the time, in work and in life, and then for some reason people are confused why we have corrupt politicians and greedy selfish bosses. I will tell you why, because you only get there by being corrupt and greedy, that is what is rewarded. You can't change the system without changing that first, stop rewarding people for being shitty, and stop punishing people for being good, and you eventually have more good people and less shitty people.
This is why if you see ANYTHING on the ground, you mind your business and don’t touch it. That will give you plausible deniability and there will be no prints or evidence that you were even there. Staying out of prison is more important than other people getting their stuff back.
I lost my phone in a Target parking lot. The phone was unlocked. I thought I had forgotten my phone at home and it would turn up. The next day after not finding my phone I text my phone with my gf's phone. The person responded we met up and they gave me my phone back. I gave them $20 and thanked them. That's how it should go.
So he's accused of stealing the phone. If he handed it over to a person in some random business, wouldn't that be receiving stolen property? I mean your just passing around a phone that has no known owner. It's this kind of shit that stops good samaritans from helping people.
By that logic, yes. However, finding abandoned or lost property in the street isn't stealing and he had no duty to return it in the first place... what if you find a $100 bill are you supposed to turn it over to a nearby business?...gtfo
This dude trusted himself over the random business it was lying in front of to get this thing back to the rightful owner. Plain and simple. Any accusations toward him are completely unfounded. Clearly the guy was not trying to pawn the thing, or he would have bricked it immediately. Definitely wouldn't have kept it at his house where it could be traced with GPS. Idiotic justice system FTW. Go chase some drug dealers and gangbangers please.
Michael Broman when you say drug dealers do you mean any drug dealer or the drugs arbitrarily forbidden by the state? should the local chemist clerk be arrested? what about bar tenders?
Anita Bonghit ... dollar tree, they sell 100 tablets reg strenght asprine for a dollar... where children can access it oh dear god im now one of those people haha
Seriously...I agree he tried to do the right thing...if he found it in Subway he would have returned it. Sounds like he found it in the parking lot...how did he know which business to return it to?? By the looks of his home, doesn't look like he needs to steal a cracked phone out of the parking lot...this is ridiculous! They wonder why people don't get involved!
this sends a message to the public that being honest and returning lost property to its owner is going to get you in trouble....the police are acting like robots with no common sense or flexibility , this situation is just absurd.
@A apologizing is admitting guilt and they will never do it. Amazing how times have changed where the police have morals or beliefs that we can get behind. Instead they have an agenda. Their only loyalty is to fellow police. In their eyes everyone but police are criminals and they just have to find a reason to put us away.
The right thing is to turn it in asap. He chose to keep it until he felt like turning it in. Could have easily turned it in before leaving or left it there instead of holding on to it until he felt like turning it in.
Yeah but that's dangerous, they don't pay fines, and it costs the city to incarcerate them. It's all about the government getting $$$. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise. Think of how many unpaid volunteer firefighters there are. How many unpaid volunteer police do we have in this country?
Most criminals are made and manufactured. It’s dumb charges like this that create criminals. If he is found guilty of this charge he’s job prospects are cut by 80%, then what do you do to feed your family? His likely-hood of becoming a career criminal increases by over 200%. The justice system is a scam.
They have nothing better to do. How pathetic of the person who obviously went to the police and reported it as theft. If he was going to keep it he wouldn't have brought it back. KARMA to the person who filed charges.
This case was apparently dismissed by the judge. And rightfully so. The DA and officers involved hopefully got some choice words thrown at them by the judge as well for wasting tax payer dollars, clogging up our court systems, and punishing ppl for good deeds.
Discovered that myself - several times already - one occasion associated with reporting money I'd once found. Anonymous forms with a provided reference number submitted online are the better option in my opinion. No possible comeback. You've fulfilled your civil and moral obligation, the victim can get their property back, and there's virtually no danger of being painted as the culprit.
They can try to justify it any way they want but any rational human being over the age of 5 knows how absolutely stupid it is to charge him with theft. They should be embarrassed
yeah, return where Einstein. it was lying in the street. not found inside the subway. he was nice enough to return it instead of throwing away in the garbage bin.
This is exactly what I thought when I read the title of this and this is why also although I like to in general be a helpful kind person it’s almost like better just to mind your own business not intervene in anything and basically don’t get involved with absolutely nothing
'should've returned it to a business' idk man something about giving a lost iphone to the 17 year old pothead making sandwiches at subway seems offputting to me
My question for the cop, Are we to assume every employee in every business is honest and wouldn't then take the phone themselves? Well? I'm waiting for an answer.
And this is why the world is going to shit now doing the right thing is wrong fuck this country. This is not the same country I was willing to give my life for in the army.
@@YeetxBoi since 2006 to today there are a average of 5,000 church closings per year and over 3 million less christians. And that doesn't count all of the Christian schools that have shut down. 71% of adults used to be married. Now it's only 49%. On top of that Society shuns Christianity while embracing 3rd world Islamic culture. Like the 3 Islamic men who raped and beheaded those 2 white European girls a few weeks ago in the name of Allah. It's happening all the time in Europe now. And within the next 5 years you are going to start seeing American women getting beheaded. Because god is bad but coexisting with 3rd world savages is good. And trends show that Islam will be the #1 religion in America by 2040. Modern immigrants today all races and background aren't coming here to embrace the constitution, declaration of independence, and bill of rights, they are coming here to invade. This is the modern day Bolshevik takeover
well, there probably WOULD be a police "investigation" against "unknown" thief.... but as that text implies, most likely no result and thus no charges against anyone.
yeah lol..! i dont get the logic of this cop. why should he turn it over to a privately owned buisness? if he should have left it somewhere, it should be a police station! or better yet track down the owner himself!!
Because we know all Subway employees are treated with enough dignity to protect the store's image. I mean they hire fucking high schoolers. Just run the phone over. End of story.
Not the way it works. The business owner wouldn't be charged with anything. No different than lost and found at any business. Of course, if the business owner proceeded to keep the phone and not treat it as a lost item...then I'd imagine they could charge the owner. As for the guy in the report, the police department is wasting taxpayer money with the charges, but I suspect it's some procedural BS that would be dropped by the judge.
the business's want it returned to them for they can take credit of the good Samaritan. Its all part of their marketing so the customer who gets their phone returned thanks the business and keeps coming back after that. Your all right he should just ran it over with a grin or threw it in the garbage and laughed.
I have found a handful of phones, and I always leave them where they are because of situation just like this. I remember my mother and I had found an iPhone in the pool locker room one day while getting dressed. I told my mom to leave it there because the person is bound to come looking for it where they last saw it and hopefully the owner would find it. Instead (because she was worried someone might take it) she picked it up and looked for a contact that either said mom/dad/home. She called the mother and told her she’d found her daughters phone and would leave it with the security guards at the sign in desk. The mother was extremely grateful and thanked my mother multiple times. My mom did this because she said she’d hoped that’s what somebody would do if they found our phones. However before we could make it to the front desk, the girl came in looking for her phone. My mom gave it to her and explained that she called her mother and told her where it would be safely located and told the girl she should call her mom back to let her know she got it so she wouldn’t be worried. Instead of looking at her call log to see that my mom had indeed called her mother, or calling her mother to confirm the call my mother made actually took place, the girl and her friend had the nerve to give my mother dirty looks and examined the phone closely as if my mom stole it, did something to it, or put a hex on it. The girl never even said thank you! My mother started to give her the “mom lecture,” about keeping your stuff safe and being aware because her phone could’ve been stolen. She kept giving my mom dirty looks and rolling her eyes. I finally said loudly, “YOU ARE WELCOME,” and waved my hand to excuse them from our sight. They left cause they saw my face and I guess didn’t want the problem. 😑 They still never showed my mother any appreciation. She lucky cause my mom wouldn’t let me give her these hands 👊🏾 after the exchange.
So according to police, I should: 1. Leave the phone where it is for the real criminals to steal. 2. Hand it in to the closest business, whether that be some sketchy pawn shop or a legit business, who probably wouldn't care. 3. Immediately check through that person's private messages on their phone to see if they sent a text asking for it's return, instead of waiting for a text with "Please return" in short on it.
Number 3 is probably the most baffling. Because, I believe, that potentially goes into the area of "invasion of privacy", especially if its password-locked. So we're really only left with 1 or 2, and 2 is not a realistic, or good, choice in a lot of situations. So the only smart or "good" action to take is the indifferent one.
Bob Richardson Number 3 is wrong! On iPhones, find my iPhone message is displayed even if the iPhone is locked so you don't have to go through the owners private message.
Exactly i dont bother helping anyone anymore cus of that people get so offended over nothing these days its better just to keep to yourself an ignore everything around you i bet if you saw a house on fire an called it in they would say it was you an charge you with arson smfh
eh I found an empty wallet once working in a corner store , all of this ladies id was in it , so I brought it home found her on FB and shot off a message and left it at work . she was super cool and happy I did it . beats the old days when youd just drop it into a mailbox.
No, but it would make sense, wouldn't it? If I lost my phone near a Subway, I would go look for it at that Subway restaurant. Not at a blokes house 5 miles away?
@@mikkelsteensgaard2395 yeah, and if i found a phone i would take it and wait for someone to call to return it, because idk if that shop owner is gonna just take that phone and bye bye. And if noone called I would hand it to the closest police station where i found it. But not to a fucking business. Someone might have just lost it while going for a run there, why would you ever want to hand it over to a local business..
Having been in law enforcement I can tell you how sad the system is. Not just alot of the officers, but the courts as well. Alot of them salivate at getting you hemmed up for something. Once they do they don't let go. Even if they are wrong and know you can get cleared. It's like a sick obsession that they even make those times as hard as possible too. Making you jump through hoops and cut through red tape, sometimes taking months out of your life when it should only take 5 minutes to do the right thing and drop it. Officers, prosecutors and judges like that made me sick.They made the job so much harder. When they wondered why people hated law enforcement so much I'd give them an example like the story on this video.
@@thecheese4255 I don't argee with this because he obviously didn't steal it, but from the police pov I can see why they think he might've plan to steal it. If he was planning on stealing it he would have taken it home and turned it on at which point it would ping marking his address. The only thing he could do at that point is return it because even if he just shut it back off the police would still come to the address looking for the phone.
Sonicthehedgehoggamer Nope I’m having a laff at its expense And I gotta say, yep, this guy would arguably make a good cop He knows how to at least make an effort to be a decent human being Now wash your ass You apparently smell like a swine
In a world where the average phone theft never gets solved and the thief gets away with it 99% of the time, we choose to scrutinize the one helpful person. Thanks America.......
Very well put!! This makes no sense to me. Can't even thank the man for ACTUALLY returning it. We live in such a wonderful country and 2018 might be its best year yet.
The phone was DEAD. He may have found it in front of the subway, but there were three other businesses to choose from. THIS IS OVER-CRIMINALIZATION. Do not punish your citizens for doing good by holding them to legalities; he took the best action in my opinion. Instead of just taking it anywhere and having it lost forever, he used his better judgement to try to get information to return it.
I found a purse in front of a subway but it was on the sidewalk past their little food court area. There were other stores there as well so it could have come from any of them or none. A homeless man was about to grab the purse we both saw it and I grabbed it first. He wanted to split it I told him no I'm giving it to the owner and gave him a stern look. Homeless guy backed off. I worked around the corner so I took it with me and went through the purse and found a college id from the same college I graduated from. So I called the college and some friends that worked there and they were able to track down the owner. Turns out she worked in the same building as me. I didn't want to give it to Subway employees because they were teenagers and I didn't trust them to do the right thing. Also I didn't know if she would even think of going to the subway since she probably didn't know exactly where she dropped it. I guess I should have been charged and put in jail for making it my responsibility to finding the owner.
Recently, I jumped in a cold river and saved a young boy from drowning. His single mother didnt thank me and asked "Where the f**k is his cap? At least i didnt get charged for anything including trespassing (no swimming allowed) by the city.
Tool Craze and sue that sheriff cuz I think he’s full of crap. If you find anything in a public parking lot guess what? Finders keepers. There isn’t any law that says you have to return found property. Study the law officer. It’s your job. Sheesh
@@gimbobjenkins405 And how does that work? An employee keeps a phone and the police will go through all the footage from all nearby stores every single time someone loses a phone just to find out where it is? Are u kidding me? It's a phone. Not a dead body. No one is gonna investigate a missing phone lmao
Soul 1 , do you know the definition of theft? At least in Australia it is to take something “to permanently deprive the owner thereof”. One day is not permanent.
Some people just can't be grateful. We found a phone at an event venue. The phone had broken apart, but we put it together and it worked. We called a number on the phone and the people were like "We're over here, bring it to us." We had to walk all the way around to the other side of the venue, only to see the people still walking away from us toward their car. You'd think they'd stop and wait for us, but nope, they kept walking. We had to call out to them to get them to stop. We gave them the phone and they just said "Ok, thanks." and walked off. We weren't expecting a reward, but they could have shown a little more appreciation than what they did. It's obvious the guy didn't steal the phone. Why did they make charges against him? They should be thankful they got their phone back!
Can't commit theft when the item(s) in question is lost resembling trash left on a byway. As for turning it in to a random business that is beyond the incomprehensible. Whose to say a customer or another employee of said business didn't steal said item(s) only disposing on the ground where it was later found after the thief was unsuccessful in bypassing the lock screen?
Do either of you dinguses know. That the officer didn’t make the law. He just happened to be the guy who had to explain it and he’s getting sh*t for it from people with no idea how the law works
Actually the press didn't ask the court system for a interview, they asked a cop. The cop didn't choose to be the one to explain the system, his boss told him to do so.
@@DangStank that's not quite right. The "law" is not, and in many cases was never intended to be, a firm, totally clear book. Discretion and interpretation have their place for a reason. And can be abused.
I had a similiar scenario happen. Found a phone in a carpark and jumped in my car with it and took it home in hopes of finding the owner. As soon as i got home it rang and i answered it saying "yes i have your phone, where do you live so i can return it?" 15 minute drive later and they had their phone and i had $50 for returning it.
If that man is to be charged with theft, shouldn't the owner of the phone be charge with littering?
Best comment.
Very true
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And conspiracy to steal a phone.
Yep. Next time I see a phone on the ground, I'll do my civic duty to throw it away. Cleaning up litter AND avoiding theft charges. Model Citzen I am
Grant Elliott damn straight
While you are at it.. Smash it so no one else would get charged with theft if they hear it ringing
cornholio Then you'll get charged with destruction of property lol
MrBeard17 not if they cant find the evidence!
Only if it's blatantly intentional. If you "accidentally" kick it into a sewer drain...well...them's the brakes.
Also, I would argue in court that the dumbshit should've never lost it, to begin with.
This is a prime example of how corrupt and worthless our justice system truely is.
Come to UK. They love letting pedo's go free!
That's so fucked up he turned the phone ad got charged this bullshit
Law Enforcement does this s..t then wonder why people get pissed at them?
So true
Cops are assholes and masters in bribe taking
Item was lost outside on ground in public, not stolen. All this does is encourage ppl to not to help others.
koe ko The reality is that this is simply an insurance scam. The individual is simply claiming it was stolen so he can make an insurance claim on his property.
I know I won't be helping people anymore. Been burned to many times. Fuck em!
There are specific laws you must follow regarding "found property" ignorance doesn't make up for not following the law
Damo Breeki There are also informal social norms that most people in a society emanate.
koe ko yeah, A thief would have factory resetted it and sold it or keep it. not respond to a text and return it to the owner. I gave someone back their wallet in my home country and they appreciated it and thanked me. When i found a phone in a store a few months back I held onto it and when the owner asked if I saw a phone and i asked her to describe it and she gave me an incredible amount of grief for trying to do the right thing. I think I'll let a dishonest person steal it next time.
I didn't scroll through all of the comments, so just in case...a local attorney took Rick's case at no cost and got the charge dismissed. The good guy prevailed afterall!
this comment needs more attention so people can see the right thing happened in the end.
do you have a link?
I know Rick personally and I know it's a fact. I'll try to find something.
Thank god! That was total bullshit.
still a waste of time
A similar thing happened to me! I returned a lost iPhone and the police decided to question me about it because it was stolen! The couple who lost the phone called the police on me to question me on how I found the phone. I was shocked! Here’s me trying to do a good deed and this is what I got. I will never ever return anything that’s not mine again.
Do what you'd like be done to you.
But yeah, I understand how you felt.
Keep it or sell it next time. That’s essentially what the police wants.
No good deed goes unpunished.
10 years ago I found a phone in a parking lot. I was able to open it and call someone in the contacts to find out who it belonged to. I had the rightful owner come to where I was to retrieve it. I thought the person was thankful but one hour later the cops show up saying I stole it. Luckily there was security footage from the place I was working at that cleared me. But I still had to pay like $3000 in legal fees to get the charges dropped.
Do what's morally right, that trumps anything the law says. Never be intimidated to do the right thing.
‘A local business nearby’ ahh yes let me turn the phone over to a 16 yr old cashier and her 18 yr old manager, much safer
@@tripplefives1402 This one was evidently operable and being used. (Received a text message)
When you give the phone to the cashier, tell the cashier that you will let the police know that you gave the phone to the business.
@@johnstack5008 just leave it in road just touching it could have you charged with theft it isn't worth the problems.
@@mourka01 Many would consider it an act of good citizenship to try to get that phone to the owner. It is risky to touch the wallet, yes, but that person may be willing to take that risk for the sake of feeling good about him/herself for doing an act of kindness.
The owner should get charged with littering since they left it on the ground
v8 isn’t that a vegetable juice
Don’t disrespect My fellow L E N N Y S r/woooooosh
@@Namanoh I mean I think he's joking..but it's also a joke he's getting summoned
that's what's up.
@@Namanoh Litter is made of dropped items
With this sort of logic I'm surprised the owner of the phone wasn't charged with littering.
Shuuu, don't give them any ideas.
Ted Miller 😂👏👏
Ted Miller - Sadly that isn't inconceivable either lol. "Owner of iPhone charged with littering after accidentally dropping phone on the ground and not realizing."
Well, they did leave trash on the ground.
Hahaha
I love how in our society the statement " No good deed.." has turned in to a curse. This is how we have a "not my problem" society.
Man: Help! I lost my phone!
Dude: Hey, is this your phone? I found it by subway.
Man: You found my phone? You must have stolen it!
Well, there you go kids.
If you see something on the floor, take it. It's yours now.
Because returning it will just land you in court.
No shit. The whole fuckin system can suck my left nut. Fuck em.
Lol. So sad.
Amen fuck em all
Wow, you CAN be punished for good deeds after all
I know you're just being facetious but even saying that as a joke defeats the purpose. A better statement would be "Now see kids, this is what's wrong with the law and why a police officer should treat each case independently and not classify or categorize them." When a law is counterintuitive, it's time to pull together to change the law instead of circumventing it.
Hell if someone is stuck in a burning house I might as well do nothing cuz I might get charged for trespassing on private property
Or destruction of property
Yeah... let them burn.. They might sue by saying the person that tried to save me gave me a broken ankle or broke something valuable while trying to save me from the exploding house.
Just wave at them and shit
@Alexander Jones Only in the shit corrupt place called America, my friend!
This is the reality we live in and its so sad. You would probably be blame for the fire and get charged with arson with intent to murder.
If his intent was to "steal" the phone why in the world would he have returned it to the Subway at all? No wonder the courts are so overwhelmed if things like this happen.
“What are you going to do the next time you see a lost phone on the floor” probably kick it and walk away
"He should've taken it inside to a nearby buisness" okay chief which one of the 15?
twopoint Takedown I was thinking the same thing! It was a strip mall!
+twopoint Takedown
Any of them. All the stores are on the same property. You think the businesses don't have a way to communicate about lost property recovered on their premises?
zipehtzin not really.
Most don't, we just toss lost items in our safe until someone comes in and claims it.
zipehtzin Absolutely not. Honestly, like what phone owner or cop is going to go individually to each store at a strip and ask for a phone?
I found an iPhone at walmart once at a register sitting near the CC terminal, I asked the cashier if they knew who it belonged to, to which they didn't, and they didn't care because of the stockpile of customers behind me in line. I took the phone in hand, paid for my groceries and took them to my car. Went back in to the customer service desk and stood in line to turn the phone over to them, and heard a lady talking to one of the associates there about a lost phone. I approached her and asked what type of phone it was, and what color, turned out to be her phone. I handed it over and she accused me of stealing it because I didn't bring it to the service desk immediately. I said lady, I'm not putting my life on hold to return something you left lay around, handed it to her and left. Some people are incredibly ungrateful...
And they wonder why people are bystanders
Well your deeds will be rewarded later on in life
Evan Peters If someone says that ill the the phone back so they have a reason to call me a thief. What an ungrateful person.
You would be surprised at how many people are very ungrateful in this day and age
@@fateleingod14 and entitle
I once found someone's wallet, so I took it to the police thinking I was doing a good deed. They treated me like a criminal.
"what were you doing there, did you steal any of the money, did you consume any drugs, do you do drugs, give me your id..."
When you are a cop everyone without a blue costume looks like a criminal.
The cops told him a very good lesson you should never help strangers no matter what’s going on.
So you get ridiculed for not helping, but get criminally charged for helping, America is SO awesome...
True men.this kinda bs always happen in America.
We know phones didn't exist yet but I don't think something like this would have happened back in the 80's assuming it was a wallet or something valuable.
But today?? We live in a shit hole society with a bunch of unqualified idiots in the legislative branch. That includes the judges and district attorney's. Nothing but pathetic imbeciles. The laws are backwards and pretty much only favor the one who supplies the most Benjamins.
This can really happen anywhere tho..
Better off just running over the phone with his car
Reminds me of a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
Where in the law does it say he should have brought it to a nearby business. That’s an opinion not a law and they do this thousands of times a year
Exactly.
Some cops are just pricks. Some are great people. It just comes to luck.
They’re definitely just saying that cover their asses. The police probably want to appear impartial in a case like this, but it’s just common sense that this whole thing makes no sense.
They just make shit up and it sticks in court.
Even if it was a law, that would be a very fucking specific law, you can't expect even 1% of people to know that. If people want to do the right thing, they should be allowed to use their own judgment within reason. Why should good deeds be done in such a particular way to not have to face consequences?
If I found a phone I would see if someone calls it first as well. Usually that's what people do if lose their phone, they call it. This world is crazy. You can't even try to do good deeds anymore without getting in trouble.
I returned a wallet one time about 5 days after I found it. I was raising 5 children, one very disabled. I had other priorities at the time. And a bit of exhaustion. When I finally had a moment, and was able to track down the person, find a phone number, I called to hook up and return it.......they were grateful. And I never heard from any police. Oh, and they even stopped by one day with a basket of fruit for the kids.
This why people wont help each other anymore
This is why people don't trust the cops anymore...
David Jones Whenever I see phones on the ground, I put them in my car and toss them in rivers. Someone tried to get me for theft a couple months ago. I'm not playing games anymore lmao. Good luck finding your shit!
David Jones
So true, whether it be for issues like this, or liability and threat of lawsuit. Just isn't worth the risk these days, to be a good samaritan.
David Jones yep
Ian Battles Is only a few of them while the rest, are actually honest, but the mainstream media just makes it worse, not telling the whole story making it look there's more, which leads to people targeting them, which will force the targeted polices defend themselves and the MSM Reported as though the cop did the targeting, which will get more angry people to target them and the cycle of death continues.
Another example of the Death of Common Sense and of wasted tax payer money.. . . and this man's peace of mind, time and money.
Terry Russel --- Ain't the world just fucking wonderful?! I moved to 6 country acres in the mis-eastern part of the country and am hunkered down, because I know that things are only going to get worse. No common sense, no justice, no hope for mankind.
Good Luck and God Help U.S. ! Remember ! keep your farming gear, animals, harvest and storage equipment, Seed Vault and water source under lock and key, as well as powder dry and weapons handy but well hidden !
No. It's the state trying to make money.
Seriously, I would love to know how much taxpayer money is wasted on giving this guy a court date.
There was a case where a person sued a guy for pulling them through some poison ivy, while the man risked his own life to pull them out of a burning car. Now that's gratitude for ya...Pathetic !!!
my son and I found a phone and called the person he/she called last and asked her to call her friend the owner to call us back. The owner called back and asked us to drop it off where she work which was on the other side of town. Really?………… not even a thank you. She sounded like she’s doing us the favor. We turned it in to the nearest AT&T outlet.
I will never ever pick up anything from the ground for nothing. Just mined my business. I learned big lessons.
Theifs would keep it.
Good people return it.
Good people get punished for being good.
Criminals are rewarded once again.
Jason Carto Obama's America
the system works as intended
Wolf Remnants of Obama's America
Exactly, people get rewarded for being selfish all the time, in work and in life, and then for some reason people are confused why we have corrupt politicians and greedy selfish bosses. I will tell you why, because you only get there by being corrupt and greedy, that is what is rewarded.
You can't change the system without changing that first, stop rewarding people for being shitty, and stop punishing people for being good, and you eventually have more good people and less shitty people.
Thanks Obama for giving us stupid people!
Those cops need to find some real crimes. Ridiculous.
Yeah, politicians commit all kinds of crimes. They need to be investigated.
The person who pressed charges needs their face all over the news.
RozumUniversalRobot very true
Yeah they're gonna go arrest some people (usually minorities) for smoking a plant or driving down the road at night
unfortunately this was the only case they could solve!
This is why if you see ANYTHING on the ground, you mind your business and don’t touch it. That will give you plausible deniability and there will be no prints or evidence that you were even there. Staying out of prison is more important than other people getting their stuff back.
Exactly!
I lost my phone in a Target parking lot. The phone was unlocked. I thought I had forgotten my phone at home and it would turn up. The next day after not finding my phone I text my phone with my gf's phone. The person responded we met up and they gave me my phone back. I gave them $20 and thanked them. That's how it should go.
So he's accused of stealing the phone. If he handed it over to a person in some random business, wouldn't that be receiving stolen property? I mean your just passing around a phone that has no known owner. It's this kind of shit that stops good samaritans from helping people.
By that logic, yes. However, finding abandoned or lost property in the street isn't stealing and he had no duty to return it in the first place... what if you find a $100 bill are you supposed to turn it over to a nearby business?...gtfo
Yeah, I've turned in phones and cameras before to security and walked away with the feeling that they are going to just keep the item for themselves.
Heath Pencook ikr..and once it's "receiving stolen property" then it becomes a felony.
This dude trusted himself over the random business it was lying in front of to get this thing back to the rightful owner. Plain and simple. Any accusations toward him are completely unfounded. Clearly the guy was not trying to pawn the thing, or he would have bricked it immediately. Definitely wouldn't have kept it at his house where it could be traced with GPS. Idiotic justice system FTW. Go chase some drug dealers and gangbangers please.
Michael Broan amen :)
Michael Broman when you say drug dealers do you mean any drug dealer or the drugs arbitrarily forbidden by the state? should the local chemist clerk be arrested? what about bar tenders?
Anita Bonghit ... dollar tree, they sell 100 tablets reg strenght asprine for a dollar... where children can access it
oh dear god im now one of those people haha
Seriously...I agree he tried to do the right thing...if he found it in Subway he would have returned it. Sounds like he found it in the parking lot...how did he know which business to return it to?? By the looks of his home, doesn't look like he needs to steal a cracked phone out of the parking lot...this is ridiculous! They wonder why people don't get involved!
Anita Bonghit eh just the ones dealing heavy stuff
this sends a message to the public that being honest and returning lost property to its owner is going to get you in trouble....the police are acting like robots with no common sense or flexibility , this situation is just absurd.
I've had someone try and leave it at a store before and the person was like we dont want to deal with it. What do you do then???
I love how the police always justify bringing charges against people, even if they did the right thing.
Jeremy Sarno
Love your country
NEVER trust its government
@A apologizing is admitting guilt and they will never do it. Amazing how times have changed where the police have morals or beliefs that we can get behind. Instead they have an agenda. Their only loyalty is to fellow police. In their eyes everyone but police are criminals and they just have to find a reason to put us away.
Cops are retarded sometimes.
Jeremy Sarno meanwhile if they shoot someone they get a paid vacation.
The right thing is to turn it in asap. He chose to keep it until he felt like turning it in. Could have easily turned it in before leaving or left it there instead of holding on to it until he felt like turning it in.
Dont you have real criminals to be charging?
matt pace true
Seriously... This shit is crazy
Yeah but that's dangerous, they don't pay fines, and it costs the city to incarcerate them. It's all about the government getting $$$. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise. Think of how many unpaid volunteer firefighters there are. How many unpaid volunteer police do we have in this country?
Most criminals are made and manufactured. It’s dumb charges like this that create criminals. If he is found guilty of this charge he’s job prospects are cut by 80%, then what do you do to feed your family? His likely-hood of becoming a career criminal increases by over 200%. The justice system is a scam.
In overland park lol not likely Johnson county is one of the richest in the entire country.
The charges will be dropped. No competent judge would let this pass.
Who says judges are competent?
They have nothing better to do. How pathetic of the person who obviously went to the police and reported it as theft. If he was going to keep it he wouldn't have brought it back. KARMA to the person who filed charges.
And they wonder why people become bystanders when shit happens
Facts 💯 💪 try to help and they arrest you might as well just walk on by
Exactly
Yup
Well there's also the bystander effect, which doesn't help the odds with this lingering over us
For NYC it's the best thing anyone can do. Just leave if it has nothing to do with you.
Who else is here because this randomly appeared in their recommended?
@the cat man beat me to it
Ive watched this daily i have no idea what you mean
I like eggs
Joseph do u want to chill the fuck out
Me
He turned it in. End of problem. It appears cops are to busy. You wonder why defund the cops get some traction.
That's BS. You can't trust a business to do the right thing. Now, if I see a phone on the ground, it'll be staying on the ground.
This case was apparently dismissed by the judge. And rightfully so. The DA and officers involved hopefully got some choice words thrown at them by the judge as well for wasting tax payer dollars, clogging up our court systems, and punishing ppl for good deeds.
source please?
Ravenleaf182 opcourt.opkansas.org:8443/fullcourtweb/hearingSummary.do?CourtCaseId=684645
alexkg1 @good to know. Thanks
thank you, I know I was being lazy, but I really am appreciative.
This is what leftists do to people.. They would rather have high crime than people doing the right thing.
This country literally makes no sense anymore. Lol
The whole WORLD makes no sense anymore.
@@lovesanityy kid, please do something productive instead of this.
Exactly right
Adam Hill
Shut up, snowflake. Nobody cares about your opinion from your shithole country.
Jaysanityy You're right, it _is_ annoying to see comments like that.
When you find out "don't be the nice guy" is real world advice.
Discovered that myself - several times already - one occasion associated with reporting money I'd once found.
Anonymous forms with a provided reference number submitted online are the better option in my opinion.
No possible comeback.
You've fulfilled your civil and moral obligation, the victim can get their property back, and there's virtually no danger of being painted as the culprit.
They can try to justify it any way they want but any rational human being over the age of 5 knows how absolutely stupid it is to charge him with theft. They should be embarrassed
so never return a phone found on the ground, gotcha, lesson learned.
thanks man.
Steal it instead. Gonna get charged anyway, fuck it.
just burn the prepaid card after extracting the files
just sell it on craiglist if u find out dont forget so say it has a bad esn
yeah, return where Einstein. it was lying in the street. not found inside the subway. he was nice enough to return it instead of throwing away in the garbage bin.
Bobby Bobby: That's theft by finding.
And people wonder why there is so many assholes in the world...this makes me not want to help people!
My god look at those likes 👉😁😊
@@Marco-er4ql Ok.
That's why every time I find an iPhone dont even bother to return it instead I smash it into the ground....
Makes me want to just step on a phone if I see one 😂
This is exactly what I thought when I read the title of this and this is why also although I like to in general be a helpful kind person it’s almost like better just to mind your own business not intervene in anything and basically don’t get involved with absolutely nothing
only in america and I want them to find in the Mississippi after I I throw it out
'should've returned it to a business' idk man something about giving a lost iphone to the 17 year old pothead making sandwiches at subway seems offputting to me
My question for the cop, Are we to assume every employee in every business is honest and wouldn't then take the phone themselves?
Well? I'm waiting for an answer.
Not to mention which business there were stores everywhere what if you picked the wrong one is that also illegal?
Now you have to think twice to having morals and values and doing the right thing. Shame......
River Rose no, you don’t. Unless you don’t have either of those to begin with.
Welcome to the Leftist America!!!
Maybe so, but I can almost guarantee that many, many more of your kind will take that trip before we ever get there. Make sure to save us a seat!
Im done helping people they are the first to embarrass me or spread rumors or screw me around. Not the world I grew up in!!
And this is why the world is going to shit now doing the right thing is wrong fuck this country. This is not the same country I was willing to give my life for in the army.
they call it the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it
Lucas Brassi boom!
It's a George Carlin quote.
Lucas Brassi this made me laugh
nice one
going to use that one
moral of the story is to just leave the phone on the ground
If you find something and return it don't give your name and information. You might get an armed government agent charging you with a crime.
your under arrest
for what?
for returning the phone and for having a good moral
You're*
@@Rakesssh sorry for the wrong spelling
*returning a day later after owner looked for it...there I fixed it for you pare
That's what happens when you kick god out of a country. Now we are in the devils playground
@@YeetxBoi since 2006 to today there are a average of 5,000 church closings per year and over 3 million less christians. And that doesn't count all of the Christian schools that have shut down. 71% of adults used to be married. Now it's only 49%. On top of that Society shuns Christianity while embracing 3rd world Islamic culture. Like the 3 Islamic men who raped and beheaded those 2 white European girls a few weeks ago in the name of Allah. It's happening all the time in Europe now. And within the next 5 years you are going to start seeing American women getting beheaded. Because god is bad but coexisting with 3rd world savages is good. And trends show that Islam will be the #1 religion in America by 2040. Modern immigrants today all races and background aren't coming here to embrace the constitution, declaration of independence, and bill of rights, they are coming here to invade. This is the modern day Bolshevik takeover
Whoever filed charges... There's a special word starting with C for you and it's not cellphone
Cops
jesus, will you just say "cunt" instead of typing that other whole sentence?
But if they dont file charges, they cant sue him!
Its the officer he turned it in to. Hes trying to make quota to get a raise or keep his job
@@47tunes23 Not me Lol
This is why I don't help people. No good deed goes unpunished.
Lesson of the Day. Never do anything good for anyone else. It will only get you in trouble.
The messed up thing is if he actually did commit theft and never return it - he would have never been charged.
EarlFaulk hypocrisy at it's finest.
Fuck what you heard, crime pays.
well, there probably WOULD be a police "investigation" against "unknown" thief.... but as that text implies, most likely no result and thus no charges against anyone.
Well apparently they pinged it and were aware of its location. I guess if he never turned it on he prob would have been in the clear.
There is such a thing as iPhone tracking tho.... not saying, just saying....
Return it to store = owner of store is charged with possession of stolen property.
yeah lol..! i dont get the logic of this cop. why should he turn it over to a privately owned buisness?
if he should have left it somewhere, it should be a police station! or better yet track down the owner himself!!
Because we know all Subway employees are treated with enough dignity to protect the store's image.
I mean they hire fucking high schoolers. Just run the phone over. End of story.
hahahahahahaha i actually laughed so hard on this :D so true....America is f*cked :O
Not the way it works. The business owner wouldn't be charged with anything. No different than lost and found at any business. Of course, if the business owner proceeded to keep the phone and not treat it as a lost item...then I'd imagine they could charge the owner.
As for the guy in the report, the police department is wasting taxpayer money with the charges, but I suspect it's some procedural BS that would be dropped by the judge.
the business's want it returned to them for they can take credit of the good Samaritan. Its all part of their marketing so the customer who gets their phone returned thanks the business and keeps coming back after that. Your all right he should just ran it over with a grin or threw it in the garbage and laughed.
I have found a handful of phones, and I always leave them where they are because of situation just like this. I remember my mother and I had found an iPhone in the pool locker room one day while getting dressed. I told my mom to leave it there because the person is bound to come looking for it where they last saw it and hopefully the owner would find it. Instead (because she was worried someone might take it) she picked it up and looked for a contact that either said mom/dad/home. She called the mother and told her she’d found her daughters phone and would leave it with the security guards at the sign in desk. The mother was extremely grateful and thanked my mother multiple times. My mom did this because she said she’d hoped that’s what somebody would do if they found our phones. However before we could make it to the front desk, the girl came in looking for her phone. My mom gave it to her and explained that she called her mother and told her where it would be safely located and told the girl she should call her mom back to let her know she got it so she wouldn’t be worried. Instead of looking at her call log to see that my mom had indeed called her mother, or calling her mother to confirm the call my mother made actually took place, the girl and her friend had the nerve to give my mother dirty looks and examined the phone closely as if my mom stole it, did something to it, or put a hex on it. The girl never even said thank you! My mother started to give her the “mom lecture,” about keeping your stuff safe and being aware because her phone could’ve been stolen. She kept giving my mom dirty looks and rolling her eyes. I finally said loudly, “YOU ARE WELCOME,” and waved my hand to excuse them from our sight. They left cause they saw my face and I guess didn’t want the problem. 😑 They still never showed my mother any appreciation. She lucky cause my mom wouldn’t let me give her these hands 👊🏾 after the exchange.
Moral of the story: If you find a phone, keep it and sale it to any random person. Its better than being innocently convicted of a crime.
And nowadays everyone's wondering why nobody wants to help anymore.
MickeyKnox just take the damn phone to a business if you can't do that then leave the phone as is it's not yours anyways
easy, Sunshine ... why are you so aggressive?
@@MickeyKnox 😂
Zack Fair You're such a dipshit
Zack Fair fuck u
So according to police, I should:
1. Leave the phone where it is for the real criminals to steal.
2. Hand it in to the closest business, whether that be some sketchy pawn shop or a legit business, who probably wouldn't care.
3. Immediately check through that person's private messages on their phone to see if they sent a text asking for it's return, instead of waiting for a text with "Please return" in short on it.
Number 3 is probably the most baffling. Because, I believe, that potentially goes into the area of "invasion of privacy", especially if its password-locked. So we're really only left with 1 or 2, and 2 is not a realistic, or good, choice in a lot of situations. So the only smart or "good" action to take is the indifferent one.
4. Keep it or sell it
MintyMiku Don't hand it in at the world famous gold and silver pawn shop or Rick would offer you £5 but only after he had an expert to look at it
4. take it to the nearest dumpster and toss it in there
Bob Richardson Number 3 is wrong! On iPhones, find my iPhone message is displayed even if the iPhone is locked so you don't have to go through the owners private message.
This police department should be defunded for being idiots taking Karen's side. She should be charged for filing a false report.
I just found someone's phone, keys, and wallet. I just threw them in the trash.
Next time if you spot a phone , pretend you didn't see it and run over it with your car for couple of times.
Yes exactly!!!
Set the sum bitch on fire
Or just wipe it and sell it
Lmao you kids are wild.
Just kick it into a storm sewer to protect the next good Samaritan who might walk by
Shit like that is 1 reason why people are so reluctant to do anything for anyone these days
Exactly i dont bother helping anyone anymore cus of that people get so offended over nothing these days its better just to keep to yourself an ignore everything around you i bet if you saw a house on fire an called it in they would say it was you an charge you with arson smfh
eh I found an empty wallet once working in a corner store , all of this ladies id was in it , so I brought it home found her on FB and shot off a message and left it at work . she was super cool and happy I did it . beats the old days when youd just drop it into a mailbox.
Bec the police there fucking humans just like us. It's called thinking for urself.
Since when was finding something someone else lost theft😂😂😂
Theft by find is a crime.
Since when are businesses responsible for holding on to lost items?
"A local business" has no more right to hold the lost phone as the guy who found it.
No, but it would make sense, wouldn't it? If I lost my phone near a Subway, I would go look for it at that Subway restaurant. Not at a blokes house 5 miles away?
@@mikkelsteensgaard2395 I lost mine for a very short while in an Eb games, in Canada, and they tried to keep it, play it off like it wasn't found
@@akumabazooka9169 There are scummy people everywhere, even in stores.
@@mikkelsteensgaard2395 doesnt matter if it would "make sense", we are talking about legality.
@@mikkelsteensgaard2395 yeah, and if i found a phone i would take it and wait for someone to call to return it, because idk if that shop owner is gonna just take that phone and bye bye. And if noone called I would hand it to the closest police station where i found it. But not to a fucking business. Someone might have just lost it while going for a run there, why would you ever want to hand it over to a local business..
This is down to the police dept. They've got no care that they are labelling an innocent man a thief...
He found it outside so how the hell was he supposed to know the person Lost it at Subway’s! I’m just surprised this happened in Kansas instead of NYC!
I can't believe that cop justified the charges with a straight face.
Anything for 5 seconds of fame!
Having been in law enforcement I can tell you how sad the system is. Not just alot of the officers, but the courts as well. Alot of them salivate at getting you hemmed up for something. Once they do they don't let go. Even if they are wrong and know you can get cleared. It's like a sick obsession that they even make those times as hard as possible too. Making you jump through hoops and cut through red tape, sometimes taking months out of your life when it should only take 5 minutes to do the right thing and drop it. Officers, prosecutors and judges like that made me sick.They made the job so much harder. When they wondered why people hated law enforcement so much I'd give them an example like the story on this video.
Why would he return it if he really stole it. Absurd
Didn't the message say "I lost my phone"?
Sonicthehedgehoggamer
He’d make a great cop, eh?
Sonicthehedgehoggamer
Well, I guess you’re asserting yourself as the authority here
I guess I didn’t smell bacon after all..,
@@thecheese4255 I don't argee with this because he obviously didn't steal it, but from the police pov I can see why they think he might've plan to steal it. If he was planning on stealing it he would have taken it home and turned it on at which point it would ping marking his address. The only thing he could do at that point is return it because even if he just shut it back off the police would still come to the address looking for the phone.
Sonicthehedgehoggamer
Nope
I’m having a laff at its expense
And I gotta say, yep, this guy would arguably make a good cop
He knows how to at least make an effort to be a decent human being
Now wash your ass
You apparently smell like a swine
That Subway is clearly in a plaza with other businesses. How is he supposed to know which store to turn it in to??
Exactly!
If you find a phone...trash it. To hell with the person who lost it.
In a world where the average phone theft never gets solved and the thief gets away with it 99% of the time, we choose to scrutinize the one helpful person. Thanks America.......
Very well put!! This makes no sense to me. Can't even thank the man for ACTUALLY returning it. We live in such a wonderful country and 2018 might be its best year yet.
@@bijan5841 idk man America has a lot of problems. This is just one.....
@Reckno64 another* one....
@@bijan5841 Wonderful?
Yeah, maybe. If the social structure and the government change.
I need to get out of here
The phone was DEAD. He may have found it in front of the subway, but there were three other businesses to choose from. THIS IS OVER-CRIMINALIZATION. Do not punish your citizens for doing good by holding them to legalities; he took the best action in my opinion. Instead of just taking it anywhere and having it lost forever, he used his better judgement to try to get information to return it.
For anyone wondering, there’s rumor that the charges were dropped.
@@liciaface9895 i was, thank you.
True. But also you just kinda stated the obvious
@@DangStank She is just giving her thoughts on the matter
Who cares take it to one of them
Other people would've even bothered helping. A simple good deed turns into crime. This BS.
I found a purse in front of a subway but it was on the sidewalk past their little food court area. There were other stores there as well so it could have come from any of them or none. A homeless man was about to grab the purse we both saw it and I grabbed it first. He wanted to split it I told him no I'm giving it to the owner and gave him a stern look. Homeless guy backed off. I worked around the corner so I took it with me and went through the purse and found a college id from the same college I graduated from. So I called the college and some friends that worked there and they were able to track down the owner. Turns out she worked in the same building as me. I didn't want to give it to Subway employees because they were teenagers and I didn't trust them to do the right thing. Also I didn't know if she would even think of going to the subway since she probably didn't know exactly where she dropped it. I guess I should have been charged and put in jail for making it my responsibility to finding the owner.
This is the same kind of logic if you saved a drowning woman she would try to sue you for sexual assault.
I'm always paranoid about being wrongly accused for sexual assault. That's why I make sure I sexually assault any woman I'm about to save.
Best comment eva
Recently, I jumped in a cold river and saved a young boy from drowning. His single mother didnt thank me and asked "Where the f**k is his cap? At least i didnt get charged for anything including trespassing (no swimming allowed) by the city.
I would never save a person. Too much hassle. As for the phone, if they texted me, I would text back that you can pick it up at the junk yard.
If someone wants to drown, let them. No means no. Just because people are gasping for air doesn't mean they're "asking for it."
He needs to sue the owners of the phone for the hassle of doing the right thing.
Tool Craze and sue that sheriff cuz I think he’s full of crap. If you find anything in a public parking lot guess what? Finders keepers. There isn’t any law that says you have to return found property. Study the law officer. It’s your job. Sheesh
I didn't hear that the owner asked for charges, I think it was just the police.
@@Someonece exactly my thought.
Exactly. He doesn't know what he is talking about. I like the other comment. Wipe it clean and sell that shit.
@@Chriscovelli1 But there is, google theft by finding.
That's why when we were in Psychology class and our professor said, "If you find a lost wallet or phone, what should you do?" I said, "Just leave it".
If you see trash on the ground, throw it away. Don't allow liter to accumulate in the streets.
Lesson learned: don't help people
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Help people the right way
Lockon Stratos yeah, throw that fucking phone in the lake.
Lorenzo Haynes maybe
MrHoppers002 you figure it out
'Hand it in to the nearest business?'
What makes you think any business is more ethical than an individual?
The people are definitely not but most places of business have cameras.
@@gimbobjenkins405 And how does that work? An employee keeps a phone and the police will go through all the footage from all nearby stores every single time someone loses a phone just to find out where it is? Are u kidding me? It's a phone. Not a dead body. No one is gonna investigate a missing phone lmao
Soul 1 , do you know the definition of theft? At least in Australia it is to take something “to permanently deprive the owner thereof”. One day is not permanent.
Soul 1 , thanks for the clever input. You big brave keyboard warrior.
@Soul 1 did you forget the fact that he returned the phone
People get arrested for stupid things in America....A place I pray I never have to visit 🤦♀️
Some people just can't be grateful. We found a phone at an event venue. The phone had broken apart, but we put it together and it worked. We called a number on the phone and the people were like "We're over here, bring it to us." We had to walk all the way around to the other side of the venue, only to see the people still walking away from us toward their car. You'd think they'd stop and wait for us, but nope, they kept walking. We had to call out to them to get them to stop. We gave them the phone and they just said "Ok, thanks." and walked off. We weren't expecting a reward, but they could have shown a little more appreciation than what they did.
It's obvious the guy didn't steal the phone. Why did they make charges against him? They should be thankful they got their phone back!
Cellmate : what are you in for? Im in for murder.
Rick : i returned a lost iPhone
Cellmate : **sits futher away in fear**
PyrocynicalRECORDS That Rick guy is a monster
did you hear rick is in for 20 years for returning an iphone. stay away from him man he's hardcore.
Cellmate: * *sits further away in confusion* *
Cellmate is probably a Samsung user
@@kapitanblue5066 What does that have to do with anything? :D
America, where everyone will sue anyone for anything
YEP lol
The low life lawyers made it this way so they can scam the system out out money.
Where was the lawsuit? Nothing in the story I watched about that.
That was a general statement about our legal system.
@@55chevytruck weird to make such a random statement about the legal system on an unrelated video, isn't it?
And that’s why I mind my own business. Don’t help anyone. Don’t extend your hand to people. No good deed goes unpunished.
Can't commit theft when the item(s) in question is lost resembling trash left on a byway. As for turning it in to a random business that is beyond the incomprehensible. Whose to say a customer or another employee of said business didn't steal said item(s) only disposing on the ground where it was later found after the thief was unsuccessful in bypassing the lock screen?
Almost as bad as the chick suing a guy for saving her life.. Welcome to Earth
Or like someone breaking into your house..getting hurt..then pursue to sue you
That is why Dr., dont stop at auto accidents.
no, welcome to America
that was a hoax
Almost?
Thanks for encouraging people NOT to give a shit about each other. Who the hell did that cop think he is?
Thatonellama63 He's an ass.
Do either of you dinguses know. That the officer didn’t make the law. He just happened to be the guy who had to explain it and he’s getting sh*t for it from people with no idea how the law works
Nerdling he played the part of “interpreter” which belongs to the judicial branch NOT the executive branch . He was in the wrong to do that
Actually the press didn't ask the court system for a interview, they asked a cop. The cop didn't choose to be the one to explain the system, his boss told him to do so.
@@DangStank that's not quite right. The "law" is not, and in many cases was never intended to be, a firm, totally clear book. Discretion and interpretation have their place for a reason. And can be abused.
I had a similiar scenario happen. Found a phone in a carpark and jumped in my car with it and took it home in hopes of finding the owner.
As soon as i got home it rang and i answered it saying "yes i have your phone, where do you live so i can return it?"
15 minute drive later and they had their phone and i had $50 for returning it.
Note to self: If I ever find a phone I'll pick it up and throw it in the nearest trashcan.
Recycle it for the environment, but ok
This man will now probably think back to this moment, when thinking about helping someone again.
Hell, i would think to this everytime i wanna help someone now
find you here !?
Very sad
I'm done helping people. Fuck 'em all.
Sirajullah M EL-Shabazz you good?