Phone Stolen

[Gunner]

So my girlfriend is a waitress at Yard House park meadows and a few weeks ago one of the employees stole her phone from the employee restroom. The company wouldn't really help so she was SOL.
Well today she is on her new phone and goes to her Google back up and finds this random pictures of this girl and other stuff. Pictures she clearly never took. she posted it on FB and tagged her Co workers turns out they reconize her as a dishwasher and silverware roller. I can't wait for tonight when we go there and talk with management. I told her if they still won't do anything email the story to a news network.

Stupid fu@@ing idiot.

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[CO Hugh]

charge her with theft, call the sheriff.

[Fentonite]

charge her with theft, call the sheriff.

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[hurley842002]

charge her with theft, call the sheriff.
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[Irving]

Are you expecting the company to do anything other than firing the girl?

[Gunner]

Is it to late to get the police involved? I found out today she didn't file a report just talked to the company.

[Fentonite]

Not too late.

[TheGrey]

It doesn't matter if it's "too late"- file it anyhow, and be sure to print out those photos of the girl. You'll have all of this documentation to bring with you, including the Lone Tree police report, to the manager. That should demonstrate that you mean business. Do it NOW.

[Skip]

Sorry to hear that. I doubt the company/management will do a thing. This is expected in the restaurant biz.

Way back when I was in school waiting tables, we had a busser steal a server's "bank." The way it worked was any checks paid in cash went to the server and when the server checked out for the night, he had to hand over the restaurant's sales, keeping the rest (tips). This worked great 99% of the time and kept the servers honest (no need for a drawer). But towards the end of a shift you were carrying cash sales + tips with you.

Well when this waitress had her bank taken she had to come up with around $300 cash to balance. This particular restaurant didn't mess around and she wouldn't have just been fired, but they probably would have called DPD. There was even a witness who saw the busser messing around in that server's section where the money was taken, they didn't care.

We (servers) all pitched in so she didn't get fired and gave up our tips. We barely had enough to cover it. I think everyone went home with $5 in their pocket that night and some of us had worked a swing (10+ hours) that day--no one got paid back.

Busser who did it even bragged later on. Never got fired or disciplined as far as we knew.

[TheGrey]

This is a different situation, Skip. These smart phones are worth $700+, which makes it something other than a little larceny. Cash can't really be traced. This can, and has been.

[Hound]

Hate thieves!!

[blacklabel]

Hate thieves!!
But love stupid ones.

[brutal]

And why haven't you used google device manager (or another anti-theft program) to lock that phone down?

[Skip]

This is a different situation, Skip. These smart phones are worth $700+, which makes it something other than a little larceny. Cash can't really be traced. This can, and has been.

This was almost 20 years ago. $300 was a lot money back then which is why we were certain the law would have been involved.

Bottom line is that restaurant management expects this behavior and tolerates it (to a certain degree) in exchange for low labor costs. Now had the restaurant suffered the loss, that might be different.

I could tell other stories....

- The bartender that clipped (marked) his bank so he could avoid ringing cash sales and still balance. He had stolen thousands (cops were called on that).
- Shift manager caught comp'ing guest checks after guests paid in cash
- Night cleaners that would replace alcohol with water
- Hotel I worked at where housekeeping was constantly stealing from guests and the hotel
- Same hotel were a maintenance engineer had his friend come break into guest cars in the parking lot when he saw something worth stealing (nearly got ran over that time)


This was the stuff I found out about/saw and most people knew not to let me know because I wouldn't let it continue.

If you've never worked in the service industry, it's an eye-opener.

[DEAGLER]

LOL taking selfies on stolen phone.

[cstone]

Is the phone GPS enabled? After you contact the police department to file the theft report, if you are unable to locate the phone, ask your carrier to locate the phone. They can and will if the police ask them to, otherwise the cell phone company will just shut off service to the phone.

[mackbamf]

Lol what an idiot. Thank god for stupid criminals. I'd love to see the look on her face when she realizes she's flat busted...

[DEAGLER]

Lol what an idiot. Thank god for stupid criminals. I'd love to see the look on her face when she realizes she's flat busted...

Her mug shot is gonna be the same one top right.

[KestrelBike]

Re the thief: talk about worthless trash.



Are you expecting the company to do anything other than firing the girl?
I wouldn't even bet on them doing that...

[Bailey Guns]

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You really needed a sarcasm smiley. Nothing pleasurable about looking at that ugly mug...other than knowing she's stupid, too.

[BPTactical]

Haayyy, girlfrens lookiin saxxy!!!

[sniper7]

So I Dont understand why people take selfies in their bathrooms?

[cstone]

So I Dont understand why people take selfies in their bathrooms?

Mirrors

[MrPrena]

Any updates on police report or thief getting arrested?

[Irving]

Mirrors

And lighting.

[Gunner]

Management got word. She has been fired is suppose to bring the phone tomorow so we will see. My girlfriend works tomorrow and said she wants to press chargers etc. I told her she needs to go to lone tree pd tomorrow or contact them

[hurley842002]

With phones being what they are now a days, it's much more than just theft, it's really an intrusion into your privacy. Between photos, documents, etc that you may store on your phone. This criminal needs to be charged.

[Captain Trap]

First and fore most file a police report.

I have gone through this same thing about a year ago. Son had his phone stolen from a skate park. The kid who stole it, used my son's phone to text a person and the record of the text was on his phone records from his provider. I filed a police report and it was closed almost immediately due to lack of evidence. So I called the person that got the text after the phone was stolen and they gave me his name. The person also set up a meeting with the thief at a local convenience store. I called the cops and had them respond. They took his name and let him go, due to lack of evidence. So of course I found more evidence against this thief. I was able to put him at the place the phone was stolen, who he was with, the text from the phone to the other person, and found a witness to the theft who signed a statement stating the kid stole the phone. Basically you have to make the case for the cops before they will act.

So gather as much evidence as you can, the photos are a great start, then get her attendance record that she was at work the same time the phone was stole. If the GPS tracker is installed the get the location of the phone. Get any call or text records from your phone provider and track down the people she called with the stolen phone. This will prove she has or had possession of the phone. Then take all the information back to the cops for them to file charges. If it all goes well, then they will issue a contact warrant. If she is contacted within 30 days by the cops, they will issue the person a Notice to Appear in court for the charge of theft.

You will have to do all of the work to prove the case, so gather as much evidence as possible to make the case. The cops will treat it as "just another stolen phone". They will put little or no effort into making the case. I do understand that with so many phone lost or stolen phones they could not possibly pursue every one. So you have to do it for them.

In my case, I got the kid to plead guilty to theft and had to repay the total cost of the phone, case, and reactivation charges. This all took about 6 months but my son got a very valuable lesson not to leave his phone laying around, and there are some bad people (thieves) out there and perseverance does pay. I even got a job offer from the city attorney as a private investigator.

[Guylee]

Why would she want to take pictures of herself anyway? Looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

[driver]

I hope she is prosecuted but I have a question for everyone. Who doesn't keep their phone PIN or password locked? I figured everyone did but obviously not.

[hurley842002]

I hope she is prosecuted but I have a question for everyone. Who doesn't keep their phone PIN or password locked? I figured everyone did but obviously not.
I used to, then got a different phone and never set it up. After reading this thread I set up a pin.

[brutal]

I use several device managers that can alert, track, remote wipe, etc.

If you enter the PIN wrong on our phones 3 times, it locks, takes a selfie, e-mails it to us and GPS tracks the location.

It sends the info SMS to the other phone setup in the account, and she or I can lock it from there using the app via SMS.

Take a look at Theftie. http://www.theftie.net/feature

I have had a few false alarms with it claiming a SIM removal that needed an unlock to get access to the phone back.

[ray1970]

I never used a password on my phone. Of course I'm not in my 20's and I'm not a dumbass either. I am in control of my phone at all times. I don't set it places or leave it unattended.

I never liked the inconvenience of having to enter a password. All of this new technology is pretty cool though. My current phone is secured. It just uses my fingerprint to unlock it.

[cmailliard]

I never used a password as well. I love the fingerprint unlock. Way to easy to keep it locked now. Learned my lesson the hard but not a bad way. I left it on a fellow teachers desk, she was a cop, me a firefighter. They posted on my Facebook page that cops are awesome and firefighters love cops, etc. Then they took about 300 pictures. Didn't realize it till I was using my iPad in class and went to pull up a picture to show the students and all the selfies showed up in my photo stream. Good laugh but taught me to lock my phone.

I use find my iPhone on all of our devices (not the macs though). The ability to remote wipe is nice. Most thieves are pretty stupid. Taking selfies with a stolen phone is about the best. I love the story of the guy who had his stolen on a train, he used find my iPhone, Google Maps, Street View, online databases for phone numbers and address's to harass the guy who stole it into returning it. He had family member names, phone numbers, pictures of their houses, cars, etc.

[Skip]

Management got word. She has been fired is suppose to bring the phone tomorow so we will see. My girlfriend works tomorrow and said she wants to press chargers etc. I told her she needs to go to lone tree pd tomorrow or contact them

Great news!!!

I imagine if the thief doesn't bring the phone in the PD can help with that. ;)

[Irving]

Why would she come back if she was already fired? Hopefully they haven't told her yet.

[Gunner]

Why would she come back if she was already fired? Hopefully they haven't told her yet.
That's exactly what I thought when I was told...

[Dave_L]

It'd be funny that as a punishment for theft, the person who owned the items could come to your house and take whatever they wanted. Steal my phone, I take your bedroom set so you can sleep your stealing butt on the floor.

[TFOGGER]

The tree wasn't ugly until she hit it...

[Tinelement]

People are so stupid. Hope you guys get everything squared away! I was reading through this thread and then headed over to the Blaze…..

Saw this and had to share here!
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/18/they-had-my-money-in-their-mouth-thieves-steal-5000-and-ipad-then-immediately-do-something-insanely-stupid/

Quote:
"After a man’s truck was robbed in Houston, the man thought he’d lost his iPad, MacBook and $5,000 — until he checked his iCloud stream and found a series of selfies taken by the thieves."

[ROFL1]

[trlcavscout]

Mirrors


And lighting.


It didn't help her! She needs to dim the lights like REALLY low!