Phone stolen from a taxi

nudelude

Lost my phone just recently. Driver dropped me home. I realised 20 minutes later it was gone. Rang the base. Driver said he had already picked up a fair and it was gone! What are the chances? 475 eur for a new phone!!

jonosam

Get the phone bared from the networks!

PCPhoto

best you can do is lodge a complaint with the carriage office (it does happen that the next customer comes into cab ... see's and takes phone, or hands it to the driver....what happens next is down to the type of person the driver is)

oisindoyle

Be more careful in future with your phone,I suppose is the lesson you have to take from this unfortunate loss.

carlaboi

nudelude wrote: »

Lost my phone just recently. Driver dropped me home. I realised 20 minutes later it was gone. Rang the base. Driver said he had already picked up a fair and it was gone! What are the chances? 475 eur for a new phone!!

Contact one of these stations to see if it was handed in.
http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=100

msg11

I found an iPhone 4 in the back of a taxi, said nothing to the driver. I kept it and waited for someone to ring the phone, so I could personally hand it back. Wouldn't like it too happen to me so wouldn't do it on someone else.

carlaboi

PCPhoto wrote: »

best you can do is lodge a complaint with the carriage office (it does happen that the next customer comes into cab ... see's and takes phone, or hands it to the driver....what happens next is down to the type of person the driver is)

The carriage office does not deal with these issues anymore. Make a complaint to the National Transport Authority.

oisindoyle

PCPhoto wrote: »

best you can do is lodge a complaint with the carriage office (it does happen that the next customer comes into cab ... see's and takes phone, or hands it to the driver....what happens next is down to the type of person the driver is)

Whats the point in complaining to the carriage office? The carriage office is there for drivers/people to hand in items left in taxis.
The driver said he took another fare and you have to take him at his word

oisindoyle

carlaboi wrote: »

The carriage office does not deal with these issues anymore. Make a complaint to the National Transport Authority.

Complain about what though .The driver cannot be responsible for someone else taking a phone that another misplaced in the car

shaddupayaface

Change the thread title. Your phone wasn't stolen, you lost it.

nudelude

I'm usually quite careful with my stuff. I can count on one hand the amount of times I have lost anything. That phone was so slim when I took a text message and went to put it back in my coat pocket I missed and it slipped out. There was plenty of battery life in the phone and the ringer was on. I know this because the cab firm rang me to say the car was outside. The driver picked up at a location a minimum 18 mins from my house and dropped off at a location a minimum 5 minutes from there (according to the driver). I rang the phone about 6 times and it rang then diverted to vm. Suddenly it stopped ringing and started diverting to vm straight away. I believe it was turned off by someone. I've barred the phone but I believe it can be sold abroad and will work.

-Corkie-

I lost me Virginity in the back of a Taxi..

dublinman1990

nudelude wrote: »

Lost my phone just recently. Driver dropped me home. I realised 20 minutes later it was gone. Rang the base. Driver said he had already picked up a fair and it was gone! What are the chances? 475 eur for a new phone!!

Was the type of phone you lost an iPhone4? It does sound to me like the right price for a new phone to be lost.

Did you look at msg11's OP about the phone.

syklops

-Corkie- wrote: »

I lost me Virginity in the back of a Taxi..

Did you lose it or was it stolen?

PCPhoto

oisindoyle wrote: »

Whats the point in complaining to the carriage office? The carriage office is there for drivers/people to hand in items left in taxis.
The driver said he took another fare and you have to take him at his word

Apologies for any confusion ... I should have added if you suspect the driver of taking the phone.

I had a similar experience and the carriage office said they thought the same as me (that the driver took the phone) - but there was no proof so its tough luck.

2qk4u

Another Taxi bashing thread ?

-Corkie-

syklops wrote: »

Did you lose it or was it stolen?

Bit of both when i think of it...

Spook_ie

Just out of interest...

Does this actualy work?

http://www.apple.com/iphone/built-in-apps/find-my-iphone.html

nudelude

It wasn't an iphone. Taxi bashing? I do believe more could have been done to locate the phone. I live in Wicklow. 20 minutes from the next nearest populated area. I would have thought the percentage chances of retrieving the phone after discovering it gone so soon would be extremly high. Instead I'm told the driver picked up a passenger and dropped them to a petrol station 5 minutes away. Unfortunately it wasn't a private residence so any investigation is stopped right there. Either the driver took it or his next passenger or it fell on the ground when he picked up the passenger. If it fell on the ground who switched it off? The pickup was in a sparsly populated area. I think its unlikely there was somebody else walking the same path at that time at night.

nudelude

Just another note on taxi bashing. There are around 12,000 taxis licenced in Dublin. Pick 12,000 teachers, solicitors, housewives, nurses, waiters etc etc and you will most certainly have a small percentage of rogues.

Spook_ie

nudelude wrote: »

It wasn't an iphone. Taxi bashing? I do believe more could have been done to locate the phone. I live in Wicklow. 20 minutes from the next nearest populated area. I would have thought the percentage chances of retrieving the phone after discovering it gone so soon would be extremly high. Instead I'm told the driver picked up a passenger and dropped them to a petrol station 5 minutes away. Unfortunately it wasn't a private residence so any investigation is stopped right there. Either the driver took it or his next passenger or it fell on the ground when he picked up the passenger. If it fell on the ground who switched it off? The pickup was in a sparsly populated area. I think its unlikely there was somebody else walking the same path at that time at night.

You may be right you may be wrong but I know that silly things happen like when a customer I dropped at the airport rang the base within 15 minutes to say he'd dropped his wallet in my taxi, no wallet, turns out he dropped it in the airport itself, luckily someone there handed it in, otherwise to this day he'd probably be thinking I'd robbed it

Anyway as to the Iphone bit, just asking if anyones ever used the app as my son had an IPod for Xmas and if it's connected to the internet has the same facility, so just wondering if it works?

bk

Spook_ie wrote: »

Anyway as to the Iphone bit, just asking if anyones ever used the app as my son had an IPod for Xmas and if it's connected to the internet has the same facility, so just wondering if it works?

Yup, works well on the iPhone.

You can even remotely make your iphone ring (if you've lost it in your home), lock the screen, with a message on how to contact you if someone finds the phone and remotely delete all your data on your phone.

nudelude

I received a text message in the taxi. Its a 10 metre walk from where the car dropped me to my house. I check every inch for the phone. I'm sure the phone missed my pocket and ended up in the taxi.

Dodge

nudelude wrote: »

I received a text message in the taxi. Its a 10 metre walk from where the car dropped me to my house. I check every inch for the phone. I'm sure the phone missed my pocket and ended up in the taxi.

Well at least you've admitted you lost it now.

Unlucky, but there you go.

nudelude

I dont think its possible to lose a phone forever in a car. It was "left" in a car. Then stolen.

Spook_ie

nudelude wrote: »

I dont think its possible to lose a phone forever in a car. It was "left" in a car. Then stolen.

yep same as the guy with the wallet who would have assumed I'd stolen it if it hadn't been found and handed in

oisindoyle

nudelude wrote: »

I dont think its possible to lose a phone forever in a car. It was "left" in a car. Then stolen.

Well no unfortunately YOU lost it ,then either the next cuntomer that got into the taxi took it which is a very real possibility or the driver did.

Victor

-Corkie- wrote: »

I lost me Virginity in the back of a Taxi..

And your common sense?

Can we stick to posts useful to the OP?

wexford12

Of all the phones left in my taxi iv only had one that wasn't returned to the owner, Don't know if it was taken out or never left in the first place.
But iv dropped about ten phones back to houses and never once got a tip or a fair play to you etc. Its always been Oh ok yea thats mine or yes thats my wifes phone or husband .
I have even posted a phone to another county from a guy who was in the town for the weekend cost me about a fiver on post and packaging, the fecker didnt even ring to say he got it.
I know now why some drivers just hand them into the garda station or put them in the bin

samsham

nudelude wrote: »

Lost my phone just recently. Driver dropped me home. I realised 20 minutes later it was gone. Rang the base. Driver said he had already picked up a fair and it was gone! What are the chances? 475 eur for a new phone!!

I remember talking to a taxi driver one night and he told me people kept trying to leave the car with the buckle holders for the seat belts in their hands, thinking they had found something. 20 min on a busy night, it is hardly shocking that he might have had another fare. My sister lost a phone in a taxi one night and left it on silent. suppose when the battery went dead no way to find her. Smart phones these days have an app to find the phone, even sends you a text of the new Sim's number. by the way 20 min when your drunk could in reality be 5 hours.