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[jono]

[ARG?] Strange Ad outside Ashby Bart Station SF

[njberry]

hmmm looks interesting wish i could phone but im in the uk, ill keep and eye on this

[Stroma]

Calling, give me a minute

Edit 1:
I called, but I only had one minute left (using a prepaid cell phone as I don't use it often and it's cheaper than a monthly plan), a male answered and said "Hello?" but then my phone ran out of minutes and cut me off. Hopefully somebody else can call.

[zzaryn]

It is a cell phone number, if that matters.

[zzaryn]

I sent a text. The reply: "I found a cell. I dont know its number. This numbers mine"

Maybe just an ad for a lost cell phone?

[Stroma]

[zzaryn]

[Stroma]

He told me he just found the phone but "some kind of weird game would be cool", so I think he's saying the phone is lost, and he knows all the person who lost it's secrets (text messages) and to call him before (who's they?) they do.

Edit 1:
He's stopped responding to my text messages

[Pixiestix]

Perhaps we should remove the picture with the phone number, as this is not an arg, and enough people come here and only read first posts - eventually this guy is gonna feel harrassed.

[jono]

[n_i_c_k]

I agree that this is an extremely bizarre way to go about returning a lost item to somebody.

1) If you found a phone in a train station you would hand it in to their lost and found.

2) If you didn't do 1), you would detail the phone make and model to help a person better identify if it is their phone you are talking about.

3) Why would you state "Find me before THEY do"?

If it's not a game, the person clearly thought they were being inventive and funny. And it doesn't really seem like they're bothered about a person finding their phone either. A few pickles short of a sandwich, it would seem.

[mrshomersimpson]

i have to agree

that seems like one of THEE worst ever ways to word a lost and found add.

why not just say lost phone. call if found

i also wonder why the guy on the phone didnt just say no sorry wrong number

and why as someone else mentioned didnt he just hand the phone in>! surely if the guy was planning on keeping the phone rather than return it, he wouldnt be stupid enough to answer it and speak... WOULD HE!?? please someone tell me he wouldnt be ( in scotland we have mobile phone tracing and if you answer a lost phone you can be tracked and charged with theft) hence the ask!

[Pixiestix]

In the US you won't get arrested for that. In fact, a lot of time people will answer and say "do you know the person who owns this phone, tell them i found it".

I for one wouldn't turn a lost phone into a train station lost and found - don't trust them any more than I trust the TSA. Just regular people like you and me, and sometimes they steal too. The person *I* would have turned it in to is someone who works at whatever type of store sells that model of phone {ex: iphone? go to apple} *they* can track it and take care of it.

The other end is a lot of people who lose their phone shut it off, so depending on how long it has been lost there is a good chance it isn't working now anyway. Depending also on what type of phone it is, it may have a lock feature and the person who found it *can't* get in to find identifying info {hence him saying he doesn't even know the cell phone's number}

Yes, this guy handled it wrong, and prob thought he was {as previously stated} inventive & cute. Still... all of this is quite moot - we aren't the guy, what he did is done, and we aren't involved.


BTW: saying "lost phone, call if found" means *he* lost the phone, not that he found a lost phone. I know, i'm a nudge.

[JumboTron]

Why even go to the bother of putting up a poster?!

Why not just wait for the person who's phone it is to call the phone. That's what I've done when I've found a mobile phone.

[zzaryn]

He told me that the battery was dead & he didn't have the correct charger.