iWitness
Today I foiled a crime. Maybe I protected the corporate interests at the expense of the exploited –preventing the poor from robbing from the rich.
But my hard-wired response was that stealing is wrong, so when the young man in the Indians ballcap took out a small cutting device and –two quick snips later– liberated the two iPhones from their tethers at the AT&T store, I first said loudly, “Sir, I don’t think you’re supposed to take the phones.”
Then when many gathered but no one acted, I flagged down a police officer on a bicycle. I told him I saw the dude steal two phones.
My statement was taken and I waited for my name to be called so I could get my cables replaced for my Treo.
In all the excitement, I forgot to get the actual phone checked out –the main reason I went to the store in the first place. My camera function isn’t, well, functioning. It would’ve been really nice to take a picture of everything.
Especially the part where the bicycle cops put the criminal on the handlebars to bring him downtown.
You faced off against a perp with a knife (forget that small cutting device stuff….you need to add the Crocodile Dundee zest to it). I can’t wait for the Answers on the Street episode……”How do you take down a perp.” You’re a bad motherf*****!!! Nice job. You also saved millions of Americans from a price increase on an overpriced, underperforming piece of equipment.
Thanks, Stillings! I hafta say, I was kinda thinking about that aspect of it later… that I helped to keep the costs down. But the likelihood of a corporation passing on the savings to the consumer? About as good as a Windows-based Treo not needing to be brought back to the AT&T store in the first place!