My brother got mugged last night...

In February, two years ago, I was coming home from hanging out with some friends, and I stood near a pillar on the train platform where my Sidekick II got service so that I could call my grandmother. Its a fairly ghetto area but it was about 6pm at night, so there weren't many kids around. However a few kids came up to me excited about my phone. I knew it was trouble but I didn't quite know what to do. A big one came from behind the crowd and snatched it, and they all just started casually walking and doing what idiot black teenagers do when they take something: Act like they didn't. So being the dumbass I am, I tried to be polite, and I kept following them until a train came. I followed them onto the train, despite it not being mine. Went through the cars with them a bit until the next stop came. I was about to follow them into a pretty unlively station when someone stopped me, saying it wasn't worth it. The value to me wasn't in the phone, but rather how much my family went through to get it for me.

Anyway, I'm a techie. Sidekick IIs have a Web Interface where everything on the phone is accessible via a web portal. The dumbass took pictures of themselves, about 4 different people in them (out of 6-8?). They also called three of their friends and their grandmother's house. Seeing as how my dad and I did most of the detective work for the police, they really didn't have to do much but match phone numbers with addresses and adresses with names. Police don't do much if they have to do the work, we know that. So they were able to prosecute only one of the guys, because he took the phone and I kind of volunteered it up to the other kids beforehand, so nothing could legally happen to them. I don't think he got served any time, though.

Either way, I got a new phone of the same model, broke that one, and have an even better phone now. That one had a particularly nasty scratch on the screen, so I kind of wanted to get rid of it anyway.

Being smart is fun though.

Jam it back in, in the dark.