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Why would anyone bother stealing a cell phone? They're easy to flag as "stolen" and become useless at that point.
by palish 17y ago
Why would anyone bother stealing a cell phone? They're easy to flag as "stolen" and become useless at that point.
- rdouble 17y agoSome people just enjoy stealing things.
- BigZaphod 17y agoMaybe he was a secret agent on a mission and he needed to call the CIA RIGHT NOW to report some amazing world-saving discovery! By giving up his phone, he could have been SAVING THE WORLD!
- randallsquared 17y agoI assume you can just flash it to a new serial number, but I don't know that much about it. The T-Mobile folks didn't seem surprised when I said it had been stolen, and had a procedure to cut off the sim pronto, so it's not too unusual.