General Chat

My son has had his Ipod touch stolen at school only had it since Christmas....and of course I'd seen it go in and I said "Don't take it in just in case"......why am I always right !
Well he's learnt a very hard lesson as I'm not replacing it.

good for you,,,,,,,that'll teach him to listen when they know full well we are always right,,,,but its a shame others just seem to think they have a right to steal.......that will be on e--y or sold buy tonight,,,,




litttle sticky fingered thief...

Awwww horrible thing to happen to him.

Hope whoever nabbed it gets their backside firmly slapped somewhere along the line..............x

You'd hope so wouldn't you, but life doesn't seem to be like that. They would have sold it for a good price and having a good laugh no doubt.
I thought the passcode would stop anyone using it but now I'm told they're easy to reset....so what's the point in having it in the first place !!
At 15 yrs old he should have known better AND he should have listened to me.......after I told him off he now just gets the "I told you so" face....mind you he is trying to creep around me right now and doing dishes etc

If you mark all you electronic stuff with smart water, should it ever be found by the police they will know who it belongs to.

He's reported it to the school police officer who's taken the serial number down so on the off chance it turns up he'll get it back....but I think a pig will fly past before that happens.
He's not the smartest kid by any means and he has a speech problem and it really annoys me when people take advantage of him and others like him.
All he ever wants is to be accepted....so yes I'd love to rush out and replace it for him but if I do that he doesn't learn a lesson nor do his two younger siblings.

i would be very suprised if you got it back
i myself think its silly kids taking exspensive items to school
that why you have to leave your jewelry at home

its asking for trouble

Totally agree with you but 15 yr old boys don't always listen do they ?!

but....he and anyone else should also be able to have these things without thieving little snotbags thinking they have every god given right to take just what they wish from anywhere and anybody.......they want their fingers burning with a red hot poker.

pity it cant be disabled and made usless when stolen...... :-|

Well I thought the passcode did just that...but now I'm told it's quite easy to reset it....pointless !!
Agree Kay you should be able to take what you want where you want...but in the real world.....
Bring back hanging I say !! =0)

its a hard lesson for the poor kid to learn

What else can I do ? Breaks my heart but....

Can his provider not put a block on it? I thought they could when they are stolen. My OH buys broken phones on E*** and fiddles with them to mend them. He has had a couple that were stolen, obviously been broken when somebody fiddled with them to try and make them work they come up with limited service if you try to use them. So maybe you need to report it to the provider.

You feel sad for them when they learn a hard lesson though don't you. It should not be that they can't take things to school, did he leave it in his locker or something?

The ipod doesn't have a provider as such, and from what I can gather no Apple doesn't do anything. He used it for games and music, and school notes when he ran out of paper !! His phone was in his pocket and we can stop that if it gets stolen, and is only a pay as you go monthly contract.
He had it locked in a room, but I'm questioning how many people had keys to the room....kids doing the audio/lights for the stage.
That said someone had a laptop taken from their locker somehow at the same time, can't work out how that was taken either....police are looking into it.

is it covered by any house insurance?

Pity! Sounds like somebody knew what they were looking for. But certainly everyone who used the locked room should be questioned by police.

House insurance - Our deductable is $500 so no point as it's "only" $200 plus tax
Police will be asking them all but odds of them saying "it's a fair cop guv" small....can't just and check their bags these days

Right kids to feed I'm off have a nice night

Ah but it is possible that somebody knows somebody who saw somebody. You are obviously not in UK, if you were the police probably wouldn't be interested.

Canada.....ours is a good school but the police are based there by request....eg to stop this sort of thing happening !!
Actually it means we've had no gun crime in our school which is good.

I often wonder what the "thief's" parents think when their little angel turns up with a mobile phone/ipod/anything else which they must know their child hasn't come by honestly. They must be just as bad themselves!!

Kath. x