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So, I am at the Wynn yesterday in LV playing video poker with my wife. I have my cell phone in my hand, since I need to call my buddies who are in town with us to arrange a meet-up. I either left it sitting on a machine or stuck it in my pocket. We caught the Wynn shuttle to the LV convention center so we could catch the monorail down to MGM (closer to the airport and my buddies, and with a poker room in which I could spend the precious few remaining hours in town). Just before we got on the monorail, I reached in my pocket to call my friends. No cell phone. I sent my wife ahead to MGM (since we had already paid for the monorail), and headed back to the Wynn to search for it.

I covered all the machines we played several times, asking patrons nearby if they had seen it. No luck. Asked an employee at the change/club card desk. No luck. Went to security/lost and found. Nothing. Re-checked all areas. Nothing. Went back to security and gave them my contact info in case someone turned it in. Was told that people generally turn them in, since it is so easy to make the phone useless by reporting it to the provider. Catch the shuttle to the monorail, then head down to MGM to meet my wife.

Find my wife. She suggests I call T-Mobile. I do so from her phone. They inform me that a call had been placed at 2:27, which was at least 45 minutes since I had last seen it. I asked them to suspend the account at 3:38. Fast forward to today. I go online and check my current bill. I see that a number of calls had been placed to various numbers in Las Vegas, Ohio, and Texas. He/she even had the balls to call T-Mobile customer care 10 minutes after I suspended it to find out why it was no longer working!!! I call the Las Vegas Metro PD and report it stolen, then call T-Mobile and get a new phone ordered.

Now- I have a list of numbers that this motherfucker called. I will list them below. Please feel free to use them in lieu of your own number in any number of marketing schemes. Call them in the middle of the night. Make their life 1/10 as miserable as mine is without my cell phone (and all my contact numbers on the SIM). I am out $125 to replace it.

People wonder why I fucking loathe 99.99999999% of the human race.

(702) 341-7368 Las Vegas, NV 3 calls made, 4 total minutes used
(361) 920-4394 Port La Vaca, TX 2 calls made, 3 total minutes used
(419) 884-1528 Lexington, OH 1 call made, 11 minutes used
(702) 581-5438 Las Vegas, NV 1 call made, 1 minute used


I haven't called any of these numbers myself yet- I don't have LD on my home phone (I use my cell for everything), and I don't want to call from my office. If any of you happen to recognize these numbers, tell your friend in LV that he is a fucking scumbag. If you call, let me know what you find out. Should be interesting.

Postscript- I found a trade paperback book in the pouch in front of me during my flight on the way home. I hadn't read it. Did I take it home to read or sell? No. I handed it to the flight attendant as I exited the aircraft and told them what seat # I had found it in. Sure it is only a $15 book, but DECENT PEOPLE don't steal from others.

Google was kind enough to provide the following.

http://www.google.com/search?q=419)+884-1528&hl=en&safe=off&pb=r&sa=X&oi=rwp&ct=title

Tell Amanda in Ohio you want your phone back.  That was the longest call, she knows the guy.

Or, perhaps you could talk to Par-A-Dice scooters and get some info on the guy who used your phone to (most likely) rent a scooter.

http://www.lasvegas.net/3750-Las-Vegas-Blvd-S-info.htm

Texas was a dead end. Probably a private residence with an unlisted number.  Dead end as well for the last Vegas number.  Possibly checking messages in the hotel room?

Oh, nice work- you had better luck than I did. I wasn't bright enough to Google- I just used some crappy reverse directory. I did get Amanda's name and address. Debating on whether or not to go to the library, denude all the magazines of their subscription cards, and send her an early Christmas present (please bill me later!).

In fairness to the faceless Amanda, I doubt she has the phone since all she did was receive a call from your phone. A more productive approach might be to call and explain the situation and ask who was in LV that called her. Try contacting them and see about getting your phone. I doubt you will though. The minute you turned the phone off it was of no more value to them and it went straight into a trash can since they didn't lose anything in discarding it.

Who are you? Don't you usually prescribe a healthy cockstabbing to anyone that fucks around with phones?

Only for the guilty, the offense doesn't really matter. If the person didn't actually do anything, they don't really deserve punishment. In this case, Amanda is only guilty of having a phone line that was called on his lost/stolen phone.

(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa181/Yegolev/bizarro.jpg)

I'll see your reverse phone lookup and raise a godaddy search.

http://amandarehbein.com/home.html

Probably not the same person, but what the hell.

Well played.  I lol'd.

I'm just imagining the amazing "wtf??" these people get when they next vanity-google themselves.

Not being a fan of sealab or whatever that show was, I don't get the picture. If someone could put it into context for me I'd appreciate it so I can know if I should be amused as well or if it's the start of a hateful feud that will last all of eternity.

Thank you in advance.

Those two are unlisted cell phone numbers.

http://www.telcodata.us/telcodata/telco?npa=361&exchange=920

(La Ward colo on a Cingular switch)

http://www.telcodata.us/telcodata/telco?npa=702&exchange=581

(Sprint LV)

You could either try and social engineer the final step from a pay-as-you-go, or hire a PI to do so. :)

I believe that's the Bizarro Sealab crew, from Bizarro land where everyone is a bizarre version of themselves. Some choice quotes (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sealab_2021#The_Bizarros). Basically a take off of Bizarro Superman and such.

WHO DARES?!

The quote on my mind was from Bizzaro Quinn: "I'M HELPING!  BIZZARO!"

I figure it's a coin flip on whether that will make you laugh or turn beet-red.

Do you hate funny things?  Srsly, you need to watch Sealab followed by Frisky Dingo stat.  Best things on [AS], up there w/ Boondocks and ATHF.

Don't forget about Harvey Birdman.

Got my new phone charged up and activated, and Tmobile was good enough not to rape me for the 5 ringtones I had downloaded. Now the tedious task of rebuilding my goddamned phone book. Those of you to whom I have spoken on the phone, or could potentially speak to on the phone, please to be PMing me your numbers again kthx. I promise I won't publish them on the web. Unless one of your friends steals my fucking phone and calls you, that is.

If they know the guy but won't get him to give you your phone back, all that really needs to happen is to slip those numbers over to the /b-tards.  Give 'em a day and they'll have every drop of personal information of the people at those numbers, and'll harass them beyond any semblance of decency.  Should probably omit the scooter dealer, though; that was probably a business call rather'n a personal one.

Apparently I should have just gone with a new number. Trying to sleep in this morning (after a week of being sick as a dog and NOT able to sleep). Phone rings at about 9am. I check the number, don't know who it is, and let it ring to voice mail. Rings a 2nd time- I let it go to voice mail again. It rings a THIRD TIME. I finally pick up. It is some youngish sounding girl who identifies herself as Maggie and tells me "Coach, we are all at the park waiting for you!".  I resisted my baser urges to curse her out or say something vile, and instead just told her she had the wrong number.

People- please teach your children to LISTEN TO THE FUCKING VOICE MAIL GREETING to make sure they have dialed correctly. For the adults. Better yet, don't let your children use the phone until they are 18. Only evil can come of it.