It’s not often you can describe a story about an iPhone theft as kind of cute, but this one qualifies …
Freelance writer Erica Buist told the tale of how her iPhone ended up taking a trip to India without her.
The part about how it was stolen is amusing – and suggests I need to up my game in charming waiters.
It’s not clear from the story how her passcode was bypassed, but her carrier blocked the phone from connecting to mobile networks, and Activation Lock prevented it being registered to a new Apple ID. She bought a new one and forgot all about it until a few months later when she received an email.
The waiter rewarded [her friend’s] charm by bringing us the leftover wine from other people’s tables after they’d left; a quarter bottle here, a half bottle here. Now this one is really nice…
I was drunk, is what I’m saying.
Buist was understandably outraged at first, but it emerged that Sachi was a 16-year-old from India who’d been given the phone by his father, who had bought it locally. She accepted his story that neither he nor his father realised it was stolen, the teenager’s decision to email her lending weight to the claim.
The two ended up becoming email pen pals.
As for the iPhone?
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The last email I got from him brought us full circle: “Guess what?… the iPhone got stolen again.”
