Any scuzzbag advice?

inisboffin

So any advice for a friend who was having a quiet one at a gig and her wallet was lifted, along with her phone?
This is a vent post, sorry
We were immediately flummoxed, discovering it was gone as we thought we knew all 6 people at the 2 tables. Turns out, person B at the table behind us was only known by 'name' to the person he sat with. We thought they were mates. When we discovered this, he was gone. All this happened in 30 mins. The lad in question is *apparently* a 'street professional' ahem.

Cards cancelled, 50 quid to the wind, but my mate has irreplaceable numbers on there for work, and she is freelance.

If I even ever see this bo**ix around town I will want to kill him, but all we want is the phone back at this stage. No one *saw* him take it but it is 100 percent the only seat with access to bag etc..

Any suggestions? I can't exactly confront him can I? I am more likely to lose the cool than the person whose phone it was!!:p

SimpleSam06

inisboffin wrote: »

Any suggestions? I can't exactly confront him can I? I am more likely to lose the cool than the person whose phone it was!!:p

I once found the bebo pages of some students that were waking me up at 4am outside the house, and much hilarity ensued. So if he has a bebo page I might be able to help you out. Other than that, call the guards.

Aurora Borealis

inisboffin wrote: »

So any advice for a friend who was having a quiet one at a gig and her wallet was lifted, along with her phone?
This is a vent post, sorry
We were immediately flummoxed, discovering it was gone as we thought we knew all 6 people at the 2 tables. Turns out, person B at the table behind us was only known by 'name' to the person he sat with. We thought they were mates. When we discovered this, he was gone. All this happened in 30 mins. The lad in question is *apparently* a 'street professional' ahem.

Cards cancelled, 50 quid to the wind, but my mate has irreplaceable numbers on there for work, and she is freelance.

If I even ever see this bo**ix around town I will want to kill him, but all we want is the phone back at this stage. No one *saw* him take it but it is 100 percent the only seat with access to bag etc..

Any suggestions? I can't exactly confront him can I? I am more likely to lose the cool than the person whose phone it was!!:p

Not sure what the rules etc are on this but could you not look for cctv footage or maybe approach the guards with your suspicions. Even if nothing turned up for your friend might prevent someone else getting done.

inisboffin

Reported it to 2 passing guards within 40 mins, unless we SAW them take it, nothing they could do. I understand that I suppose, but if he tries to use the credit card and get's busted, then we can definitely ID him. We only know the guy's nickname, he is not Irish, and would stand out a bit in appearance as a local, but not necessarily as a person walking around Galway. Tried Googling that, thought of looking for a page of his!
No cameras to pick up where we were in gig.
Oh well, the light of day and I still may kick him!

Fionn MacCool

You should have just told them you saw him take it, the Guards can be ****ing useless when they want to be...

Mrs OBumble

inisboffin wrote: »

So any advice for a friend who was having a quiet one at a gig and her wallet was lifted, along with her phone?
.... but my mate has irreplaceable numbers on there for work, and she is freelance.

There's a good reminder for us all in there: don't ever keep numbers only in your phone. When someone gives you a number that's "irreplaceable", take the extra 20 seconds to write it down in an address book or somesuch. Phones can be lost so easily, PDA's can have hardware failures ete etc.

Lockstep

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

I once found the bebo pages of some students that were waking me up at 4am outside the house, and much hilarity ensued.

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inisboffin

JustMary wrote: »

There's a good reminder for us all in there: don't ever keep numbers only in your phone. When someone gives you a number that's "irreplaceable", take the extra 20 seconds to write it down in an address book or somesuch. Phones can be lost so easily, PDA's can have hardware failures ete etc.

Yup, so true. O2 do that backup thing as well for 2 quid, and saves the *current* address book, so worth doing every couple of months.

Luckily my mate had a *few* numbers on an old handset, but she lost the weekend's worth of work, which was a big deal to her. Her mates rallied round and lent her cash and worried about her tho, so at least she feels loved

workaccount

JustMary wrote: »

There's a good reminder for us all in there: don't ever keep numbers only in your phone. When someone gives you a number that's "irreplaceable", take the extra 20 seconds to write it down in an address book or somesuch. Phones can be lost so easily, PDA's can have hardware failures ete etc.

If you have a bluetooth phone and laptop you can now back them up very easily onto the laptop.

ScumLord

JustMary wrote: »

There's a good reminder for us all in there: don't ever keep numbers only in your phone. When someone gives you a number that's "irreplaceable", take the extra 20 seconds to write it down in an address book or somesuch. Phones can be lost so easily, PDA's can have hardware failures ete etc.

And it's just as easy to plug it into your pc and get all your contacts off it.