This seems to be occurring often enough that maybe everyone should add a mylar bag to their emergency kits. Bag the phone and you've farrady caged it. F these privacy invading cretans.

 

Thanks! Like a ziplock bag? 7 Uber tells me that under no circumstances to release the phone until they have decided it's OK to release the phone. The police still haven't got here and their still outside

 

Pop the SIM card out of the phone and it can't be pinged. I posted that last week. To bad you missed it.

 

I guess we should assume that every time we hold a lost phone, some paxholes are going to track it down. If I hear a ring or find it, it's going out the window.

 

Just another day in south central LA?

 

No. I picked them up in Beverly Hills to Burbank.

Pop the SIM card out of the phone and it can't be pinged. I posted that last week. To bad you missed it.

Too bad I did. I have never had something like this happen, and drunk people always leave their phones.

 

As I read this, a bus drove by the new buses appear to have a roof that is recessed to hide the air conditioning units. I suggest tossing them up there they wont slide off and the pax will go nuts trackinh them

 

This is why i have protection in my house. When goons start knocking I start glocking. OK I don't have a glock but it sounded cool... Colt python and a 9mm Defender. Police only come after you get your butt kicked. Lol...

 

I only have the 12gauge, but am thinking about a glock.

 

Moral of the story: Drown it in toilet first, THEN return it if you feel like it or drop with police or... just leave in toilet bowl

 

Moral of the story: Drown it in toilet first, THEN return it

Yep. Tell em to put it in rice after

 

Next time, take it to your local gas station and drop a gigantic deuce on it. Remember to leave it on so pax can find it

 

I really hate phones, but they make great pocket computers.



put whip cream and a cherry on top

 

So I had an an idiot drunk PAX at 3am, and she left her cell phone in the car, despite me asking her to make sure she had it. An hour and a half later, I hear ringing non stop coming from under the front seat, and the PAX I had at the time told me sounds like someone left their iPhone. That's the ringing, and pulled it from under the seat. Another 2 hours later, I get a call from a guy saying his friend left her phone. I told him I reported it to Uber and was done driving for the day and sleep, but would gladly make arrangements if I am in the area later, or leave it at the police station. He said he would have her call me directly to make arrangements later today. They just wanted to make sure the phone was safe.

30 minutes ago, I get a phone call, and the chick is like: "I'M AT YOU HOUSE!!! YOU STOLE MY PHONE AND I TRACKED IT TO YOUR LOCATION AND WE'RE OUTSIDE, BRING MY PHONE". I look out my door, no one, but down the street on the wrong corner, at the wrong building is 2 big dudes with dreads, and the phone rings again. This time, I ripped her a new one, and she starts apologizing saying she didn't know I was the Uber driver, and her friend didn't tell her that, or that I had made the offer to return the phone.

Currently waiting by my window with my 12ga and for the police. This is going to be an interesting day...

PS are you really hiding out in your apartment with a shotgun??

 

Aren't you?

It is however "off enough" that GPS and cell service is interrupted. You cannot contact a powered down phone, unless it's been hacked to not really power down.

And removing/disconnecting the battery renders the phone dead. No juice no joy. Phones require power, not sure what you're thinking here.

Some (tiny amount) have a reserve capacitor that carries enough juice to ping out a location 2 or 3 times before it also dies.

 

Flush it down the toilet next time they call. So they can hear the heart wrenching water swirling sound.

 

Put the glock to his dreadlock and pop, pop, pop.

Maybe they are just playing Pokémon go ?

 

EzPz - Google/WAZE or whichever Search method preferred: Closest Police Station

Drop the phone off there and tell them you 'found it.'

Let Goons go there and be goonie...

 

So I had an an idiot drunk PAX at 3am, and she left her cell phone in the car, despite me asking her to make sure she had it. An hour and a half later, I hear ringing non stop coming from under the front seat, and the PAX I had at the time told me sounds like someone left their iPhone. That's the ringing, and pulled it from under the seat. Another 2 hours later, I get a call from a guy saying his friend left her phone. I told him I reported it to Uber and was done driving for the day and sleep, but would gladly make arrangements if I am in the area later, or leave it at the police station. He said he would have her call me directly to make arrangements later today. They just wanted to make sure the phone was safe.

30 minutes ago, I get a phone call, and the chick is like: "I'M AT YOU HOUSE!!! YOU STOLE MY PHONE AND I TRACKED IT TO YOUR LOCATION AND WE'RE OUTSIDE, BRING MY PHONE". I look out my door, no one, but down the street on the wrong corner, at the wrong building is 2 big dudes with dreads, and the phone rings again. This time, I ripped her a new one, and she starts apologizing saying she didn't know I was the Uber driver, and her friend didn't tell her that, or that I had made the offer to return the phone.

Currently waiting by my window with my 12ga and for the police. This is going to be an interesting day...

Just remember, head shots are for the movies, you want center mass. Dont stop to help the first one you shoot, be sure to clear the area to make sure the threat is over before lending any aid.

 

Says dis guy

 

Phones I find have a special place...OUT THE WINDOW

 

Shut the phone off as soon as you find it. As long as you aren't near your home. It will send a ping to the server. They dont ping when they are shut off.

 

Step one: TURN THE PHONE OFF.
Step two: wonder to yourself why step one isn't obvious to everyone.

 

Though far beyond the scope of your average Joe, an off phone is not truly off. Neither does removing the battery render most modern phones (that had/still have removable batteries) render them dead.

 

Just because you're paranoid doesnt mean they arent after you.

 

This is an advantage of living in one of the slumburb parts of OC. LACO thugs won’t venture out here.

 

When working nights- drunk hours or otherwise- keep a compact flashlight within reach and scan the backseat & floor (in addition to verbally telling them to not leave anything behind) as the riders are exiting. If they later contact you & their shit isn't in your car, you can remind them that you had done this and that they probably left their shit elsewhere...

 

So I had an an idiot drunk PAX at 3am, and she left her cell phone in the car, despite me asking her to make sure she had it. An hour and a half later, I hear ringing non stop coming from under the front seat, and the PAX I had at the time told me sounds like someone left their iPhone. That's the ringing, and pulled it from under the seat. Another 2 hours later, I get a call from a guy saying his friend left her phone. I told him I reported it to Uber and was done driving for the day and sleep, but would gladly make arrangements if I am in the area later, or leave it at the police station. He said he would have her call me directly to make arrangements later today. They just wanted to make sure the phone was safe.

30 minutes ago, I get a phone call, and the chick is like: "I'M AT YOU HOUSE!!! YOU STOLE MY PHONE AND I TRACKED IT TO YOUR LOCATION AND WE'RE OUTSIDE, BRING MY PHONE". I look out my door, no one, but down the street on the wrong corner, at the wrong building is 2 big dudes with dreads, and the phone rings again. This time, I ripped her a new one, and she starts apologizing saying she didn't know I was the Uber driver, and her friend didn't tell her that, or that I had made the offer to return the phone.

Currently waiting by my window with my 12ga and for the police. This is going to be an interesting day...

Shot guns can make a big hole, but by Desert Eagle at $10.00 per round will cut someone in half. One more thought any phone left in your car, see how it does at 70 mph on the 110 day.

 

Blatant symptoms of mental illness, Republican.

 

All one needs to do is go buy 2 bags of Doritos or any other Chips of your liking.

Eat the Chips.
Empty the Bag
Put phone in bag
Close like a bag of Weed
Put In second bag
Roll it up to seal

Chip bags have Mylar on the inside. They make for a good cheap Faraday Cage.

 

Interestingly, microwave ovens will also work if you lock the offending phone inside it, since they're shielded to keep their radiation inside.

Just don't turn on the oven!

 

Next time you find a phone just throw it out the car window and tell the PAX another passenger stole it.

 

should have powered off the phone after all that ringing....oh well, next time.

 

Uber doesn't say if you return it to a police station that it has to be the closest police station. I can easily travel 50+ miles and "OOPS look what I found, better turn it in to the police station here."