Buck531 Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Karacho1647545492 Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Wow, self-perpetuating ignorance sucks. intarweb ftw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putty Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 That's old.....Still funny though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted June 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 That's old.....Still funny though. Old? WTF. June 7th, 2006 is old ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putty Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Old? WTF. June 7th, 2006 is old ? I've seen that a long time ago when the whole Paris Hilton, Vida, and all that crap was going on. Are you forcing my hand to find a link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 I've seen that a long time ago when the whole Paris Hilton, Vida, and all that crap was going on. Are you forcing my hand to find a link? yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted June 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 I've seen that a long time ago when the whole Paris Hilton, Vida, and all that crap was going on. Are you forcing my hand to find a link? Sure. Was it the exact same thing? Kinda wierd since it's only been up a day and a half or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 That's old.....Still funny though. This started 6/6/06, yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest øctane Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 hehe, i love it! Myspace makes its way into wayyyy to much these days tho . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morabu Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 AH hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! that has got to be some of the most genius and stupid shit i have seen in a long time!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lustalbert Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Wow! That is great! I wonder if that MP will enjoy an article 15.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam1647545489 Posted June 7, 2006 Report Share Posted June 7, 2006 Fuck reading that cliffs???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balian Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Cliff notes.. Girl left phone in taxi, someone picked it up. Another girl who either picked it up or stole it was dumb enough to sign into it and now has way to much drama which includes myspace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl1647545488 Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Wow, didn't know the Sidekick stored information on the servers. That's pretty cool! Now we can see how useful that can be if a stupid person steals your phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquirrelyNutsDSP Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Gotcha bitch! The updates are still coming and the guy has posted a ton of stuff. I'm getting a kick out of this! Thieves FTL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin R. Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 Funny how these always end up in asking for money and fame. I think I will make a bogus one so I can get some cash for the 10,000 people who view it. Sounds legit and is funny as hell still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwishiwascool Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 That's old.....Still funny though. I think youre confuseled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1647545498 Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Conclusion!!! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/nyregion/21sidekick.html?_r=1&oref=slogin http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaSSon Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old dirty bastard Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 I've seen that a long time ago when the whole Paris Hilton, Vida, and all that crap was going on. Are you forcing my hand to find a link? http://skepdic.com/graphics/nostradamus.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balian Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Ha..That is awesome.. Finally glad that someone got arrested.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1647545498 Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Damn, can't view entire story without login now. I was able to access it last night. Edit: Still have the page up in different tab so I copy pasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1647545498 Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Tale of a Lost Cellphone, and Untold Static Sign In to E-Mail This Print Reprints Save By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Published: June 21, 2006 Dirty Harry had his .44. Sherlock Holmes had his brain. Skip to next paragraph Cary Conover for The New York Times Evan Guttman's quest to find a friend's lost cellphone resulted in the arrest of a 16-year-old. Mr. Guttman's Sidekick Page Evan Guttman had his computer, the Web and a few thousand people he had never met. That was enough. Three weeks ago, Mr. Guttman went on a quest to retrieve a friend's lost cellphone, a quest that has now ended with the arrest of a 16-year-old on charges of possessing the missing gadget, a Sidekick model with a built-in camera that sells for as much as $350. But before the teenager was arrested, she was humiliated by Mr. Guttman in front of untold thousands of people on the Web, an updated version of the elaborate public shamings common in centuries past. The tale began when Mr. Guttman's best friend Ivanna left her cellphone in a taxicab, like thousands of others before her. After Ivanna got a new Sidekick, she logged on to her account — and was confronted by pictures of an unfamiliar young woman and her family, along with the young woman's America Online screen name. The 16-year-old, Sasha Gomez, of Corona, Queens, had been using the Sidekick to take pictures and send instant messages. She apparently did not know that the company that provided the phone's service, T-Mobile, automatically backs up such information on its remote servers. So when Ivanna got back on, there was Sasha. Using instant messages, Mr. Guttman tracked down Sasha and asked her to return it. "Basically, she told me to get lost," Mr. Guttman recalled. "That was it." So he set up a no-frills Web page with a brief account of what happened, and posted the pictures of the girl and her family. Within hours of putting up the Web page, Mr. Guttman was fielding hundreds of e-mail messages from those nursing their own bitter memories of a lost cellphone, a BlackBerry or a digital camera that went unreturned. There were links to the page on Digg and Gizmodo, two popular tech-oriented blogs, which helped drive more and more traffic. Eventually, hundreds of other Web sites posted links to his page. The hundreds of e-mail messages became thousands, from as far away as Africa and Asia. Mr. Guttman tried to answer them all, and barely slept. "A lot of people have been saying, 'I lost my phone, I wish I did this,' " he said. Some readers also began visiting Sasha's MySpace page and bombarding her and her friends with e-mail messages. Others found her street address in Corona and drove by her family's apartment building, taking videos or shouting out "thief" in front of her neighbors. Meanwhile, lawyers and police officers sent Mr. Guttman e-mail messages instructing him on the finer points of property law and advice on how to navigate the police bureaucracy. Some readers took to Internet forums, where they exchanged their own stories of lost phones and recalled the time last year when Paris Hilton's Sidekick was hacked, allowing millions of people to view her pictures and personal address book. The site continued to draw e-mail messages and rack up visitors. When Mr. Guttman's Web server crashed with all of the traffic, several people offered free server space. A reader in Orlando, Fla., recorded a song about the missing Sidekick and posted it on a MySpace page. (Sample lyrics: "Materialistic-kleptomaniac/please just give her her Sidekick back.") Another, Mr. Guttman said, invited him to a party at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles. Still others located Mr. Guttman's personal site, which is not directly linked to the Sidekick page, and found photographs that he has taken of swimsuit models, some of them seminude. They accused him of an intricate scheme to sell pornography, which he laughed off. Mr. Guttman also kept exchanging e-mail messages with Sasha and, eventually, her family. Then he heard from her older brother, Luis Pena, who said he was a military policeman and warned Mr. Guttman to let his sister alone. Mr. Guttman posted the exchange. Within days, he was contacted by dozens of active and retired soldiers. One said he had gone through basic training with Mr. Pena; several others told Mr. Guttman that making such a threat was a violation of military policy and promised to report Mr. Pena to his superior officers. Mr. Guttman posted it all. "I don't want people to be punished," he said last week. "I just want them to give the Sidekick back." The girl's family was not pleased by the attention, especially the random visitors to their street. Though Sasha and Mr. Pena did not respond to instant messages and e-mail messages, their mother, Ivelisse Gomez, confirmed that her son was serving in the Army and had been in trouble with his superior officers after some of the visitors to Mr. Guttman's Web page called in to complain. She also said that Mr. Guttman's Web site amounted to harassment and said the family might sue him. "They told him to come pick it up," said Ms. Gomez, speaking in the apartment of her building's superintendent last Thursday. She said she had bought the phone for $50 on a subway platform in Queens and had given it to her daughter. "We said he could have it if he gave the money we paid for it," she added. Mr. Guttman, however, said that the offer to retrieve the phone was accompanied by a threat of physical injury. So after posting a warning that Sasha had one last chance to return the phone, he accompanied its actual owner, his friend Ivanna, to a Manhattan police station. Ivanna asked that her last name be kept private, as she was about to be married, and, she said, "I don't want to be famous for having lost my Sidekick." "I was worried, because I had all this information on the phone — all these numbers and e-mails, personal and work," she said. "So I called Evan, because he's really good with computers." People are not nice," she added, referring to Sasha. "Why?" Last Thursday, the story of the lost Sidekick began meandering toward a conclusion. The police arrested Sasha and charged her with possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, a misdemeanor. (The police have possession of the Sidekick and plan to return it to Ivanna.) Sasha was released, but was not available to comment. Her mother offered a parting remark. "I never in my life thought a phone was going to cause me so many problems," Ms. Gomez said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG SHAFE Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Funny how these always end up in asking for money and fame. If you read the whole thing you would see he didn't want any fame for it, and turned down many interviews. He only asked for money to support the server fees. Hell he told people not to, but if they wanted to donate they can. Good catch slick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex1647545498 Posted June 24, 2006 Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 If you read the whole thing you would see he didn't want any fame for it, and turned down many interviews. He only asked for money to support the server fees. Hell he told people not to, but if they wanted to donate they can. Good catch slick. People read? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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