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"5 days she had it"

5 bloody days my sister managed to have her Samsung V200 before it was stolen.
How was it stolen you ask, well get ready to be suprised at how stupid she can be;
We have this thing called the common room (Place were people just hang out) and she left it in her bag, and her bag chucked on the floor behinde the door.
Thats it, gone, a nice £300 just gone because of her stupidity.
I have phoned the school, but they won't answer, i phoned the police, they are going to get back to me. But all's that they will do is give me a security number for the insurence to prove that the phone has been stolen.
I have phoned Virgin as well and, well they said that i can't talk to them about it because the phone is in my dads name so he has to phone up and sort it out. But hopefully they will move her credit onto another sim card, block the one she has now and send me a new one.
And what amused me more is that my sister said don't block the phone because we may be able to phone the person up and ask for the phone back.
LMAO, fool, they would spend the £15 she had on it and then snap the sim card, why would they give a crap about it???

Any other ideas of what i could do?

btw she didn't even write the IMEI number down so i cant block the phone.


Thanks.

I agree that I could never do without my phone, it's a very handy device, and I store all my friends numbers on it.

The rest of the features are just gimmicks - games, sub-standard cameras, ringtones that sound like gameboy games, WAP (really poor). the only thing I've seen that takes my interest is video phone, offered by '3' phones, but they are the size of suitcases and cost a bomb.

It's very materialistic like you say - we like to represent ourselves no longer with just our cars and clothes, but with overpriced chunks of plastic that can do a hundred different tasks poorly.

Tyler Durden said it best : "You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your f*****g khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."

Of course you could argue that I can't afford these items and am therefore just offering you all some sour grapes ..... :D

*may not have the balls*

I have my mums permission to punch the guy if i find him.
Yey.

*May not have permission*

Mobile phones aren't just a means of communication, I mean that in the literal and metaphorical sense. Obviously they have more features than a swiss army knife all of which are amazignly good little gadgets designed to keep you amused until the next major advancement in mobile phone technology but they are also so much more in the sense that a £300 is a symbol of social status in this modern day world. We may not NEED one but as sad as it is to say we live in a very materialistic world in which the elite of society can be spotted by their flash cars, flash clothes and flash mobile phones. You may not be able to get all three of these things but getting an extortionately priced mobile phone is a good place to start.

yup-true.

Absolu† Neó wrote:
> If you're dad rings Virgin, they will block the phone for you.
>
> Use the claim number that the police give you to claim a new phone
> from you're insurance.

Thats exactly what i done before i posted.

DiscoDexy wrote:
> ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> forgive me for sounding like an old fogey, but what the hell do
> people
> who are still at school need a 300 pound phone for?
>
> In a sense mate, your right.

I suppose it was the same when I was at school, but it was with different things. It was more the 'who has the best gear system on their mountain bike' sort of competition. Seems a little more practical than how many pixels you have on your tiny screen, or how many polyphonic ringtones you can have.

Having said that, there are people my age who rave on about such things and pay ridiculous money for a glorified pair of paper cups and length of string. I think they forget it's just a phone. And the phone companies lap it up.

ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> forgive me for sounding like an old fogey, but what the hell do people
> who are still at school need a 300 pound phone for?

In a sense mate, your right.
But nowadays at school it’s a competition to see "who’s got the best phone" so most people feel obliged to get a new one, to compete with their friends.

*walks off murmuring to ßora† SagdiyeV, about the life of today*

forgive me for sounding like an old fogey, but what the hell do people who are still at school need a 300 pound phone for?

I'm 25 and make do with a crappy old Sony j5 (or whatever it is).

It's just a ridiculous waste of money.

I've had two bikes nicked in my lifetime, I didn't hold my breath about getting them back, despite being absolutely gutted.

What chance in hell do you have? Approximately zero, unless the culprit gets guilty and hands it in.

*walks off mumbling about how things used to be*

I don't dirve yet.
Just seen too many good moterists caught by speed cameras, and too little murderers being caught by police.


Mad world.