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Disneyphile

06-08-2006 12:48 PM

Internet Justice!

This is a great read about a guy's retaliation to his girlfriend's stolen sidekick:

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

:snap:

I wish more people would do this to thieves. :evil:

Ghoulish Delight

06-08-2006 01:10 PM

My question is, why didn't he just call the police and give them the address to check out?

Moonliner

06-08-2006 02:40 PM

I don't know, this one just sounds a bit fishy. Does anyone who has a sidekick know for sure that it auto-uploads photos and such? I know my phone does not work that way.

Kevy Baby

06-11-2006 08:55 AM

I was bored and was cruising the forums set up for this and saw this:

Ponine

06-12-2006 08:24 AM

I have the Bunny... but... wow.
Thats just silly. :P

Gemini Cricket

06-12-2006 08:30 AM

I'd be mad if someone stole my Sidekick. Let's just say that I'm Batman, I'd be pis sed if someone stole Robin.

Kevy Baby

06-20-2006 10:16 PM

Well, it appears ~~Robin~~ the Sidekick finally made its way back to its owner:

Quote:

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.

Even got a story in the News York Times.

€uroMeinke

06-21-2006 12:02 AM

I'm not sure that these activities were not "vengeful" since I'm still not sure why the whole matter couldn't have been turned over to the police to begin with.

Morrigoon

06-21-2006 04:06 PM

Because that's not nearly as effective as the notoriety caused by having millions of people know you are a theif.

Kevy Baby

06-21-2006 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I'm not sure that these activities were not "vengeful" since I'm still not sure why the whole matter couldn't have been turned over to the police to begin with.

If you read through the whole blog, you will see that 1) he gave the offenders notice that he would try to resolve this without going to the police, and 2) once he did elect going to the police, it didn't go well. The police really didn't want to do anything about this but were pressured into it by the resulting publicity this issue wrought.

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