Ted Miller - Sadly that isn't inconceivable either lol. "Owner of iPhone charged with littering after accidentally dropping phone on the ground and not realizing."
koe ko The reality is that this is simply an insurance scam. The individual is simply claiming it was stolen so he can make an insurance claim on his property.
koe ko yeah, A thief would have factory resetted it and sold it or keep it. not respond to a text and return it to the owner. I gave someone back their wallet in my home country and they appreciated it and thanked me. When i found a phone in a store a few months back I held onto it and when the owner asked if I saw a phone and i asked her to describe it and she gave me an incredible amount of grief for trying to do the right thing. I think I'll let a dishonest person steal it next time.
I didn't scroll through all of the comments, so just in case...a local attorney took Rick's case at no cost and got the charge dismissed. The good guy prevailed afterall!
A similar thing happened to me! I returned a lost iPhone and the police decided to question me about it because it was stolen! The couple who lost the phone called the police on me to question me on how I found the phone. I was shocked! Here’s me trying to do a good deed and this is what I got. I will never ever return anything that’s not mine again.
10 years ago I found a phone in a parking lot. I was able to open it and call someone in the contacts to find out who it belonged to. I had the rightful owner come to where I was to retrieve it. I thought the person was thankful but one hour later the cops show up saying I stole it. Luckily there was security footage from the place I was working at that cleared me. But I still had to pay like $3000 in legal fees to get the charges dropped.
And this is why the world is going to shit now doing the right thing is wrong fuck this country. This is not the same country I was willing to give my life for in the army.
David Jones Whenever I see phones on the ground, I put them in my car and toss them in rivers. Someone tried to get me for theft a couple months ago. I'm not playing games anymore lmao. Good luck finding your shit!
David Jones So true, whether it be for issues like this, or liability and threat of lawsuit. Just isn't worth the risk these days, to be a good samaritan.
Ian Battles Is only a few of them while the rest, are actually honest, but the mainstream media just makes it worse, not telling the whole story making it look there's more, which leads to people targeting them, which will force the targeted polices defend themselves and the MSM Reported as though the cop did the targeting, which will get more angry people to target them and the cycle of death continues.
I once found someone's wallet, so I took it to the police thinking I was doing a good deed. They treated me like a criminal. "what were you doing there, did you steal any of the money, did you consume any drugs, do you do drugs, give me your id..."
If his intent was to "steal" the phone why in the world would he have returned it to the Subway at all? No wonder the courts are so overwhelmed if things like this happen.
We know phones didn't exist yet but I don't think something like this would have happened back in the 80's assuming it was a wallet or something valuable. But today?? We live in a shit hole society with a bunch of unqualified idiots in the legislative branch. That includes the judges and district attorney's. Nothing but pathetic imbeciles. The laws are backwards and pretty much only favor the one who supplies the most Benjamins.
Yeah... let them burn.. They might sue by saying the person that tried to save me gave me a broken ankle or broke something valuable while trying to save me from the exploding house.
@@mourka01 Many would consider it an act of good citizenship to try to get that phone to the owner. It is risky to touch the wallet, yes, but that person may be willing to take that risk for the sake of feeling good about him/herself for doing an act of kindness.
If I found a phone I would see if someone calls it first as well. Usually that's what people do if lose their phone, they call it. This world is crazy. You can't even try to do good deeds anymore without getting in trouble.
my son and I found a phone and called the person he/she called last and asked her to call her friend the owner to call us back. The owner called back and asked us to drop it off where she work which was on the other side of town. Really?………… not even a thank you. She sounded like she’s doing us the favor. We turned it in to the nearest AT&T outlet.
Found a phone in the road once and called one of the contacts who called the owner and when they came to get it they treated me like a thief. I actually have to throw them off my property as his bitch girlfriend wouldn't shut up. Never again...let the phone get run over
Terry Johnson : I lost my phone and someone turned it in to the place where I lost it, I asked who turned it in but they wouldn't say, I would've been happy just to give them a 20, with all the contacts that were in the phone. To bad some people are the way they are that do lose things,.they just don't want to admit to there mistakes I guess.😉
sixpoint3 ...and for running it over you would be charged with destruction of private property. class B. misdemeanor. punishable by a fine up to $1,000.00. and up to one year in the county jail.
I found an iPhone at walmart once at a register sitting near the CC terminal, I asked the cashier if they knew who it belonged to, to which they didn't, and they didn't care because of the stockpile of customers behind me in line. I took the phone in hand, paid for my groceries and took them to my car. Went back in to the customer service desk and stood in line to turn the phone over to them, and heard a lady talking to one of the associates there about a lost phone. I approached her and asked what type of phone it was, and what color, turned out to be her phone. I handed it over and she accused me of stealing it because I didn't bring it to the service desk immediately. I said lady, I'm not putting my life on hold to return something you left lay around, handed it to her and left. Some people are incredibly ungrateful...
I returned a wallet one time about 5 days after I found it. I was raising 5 children, one very disabled. I had other priorities at the time. And a bit of exhaustion. When I finally had a moment, and was able to track down the person, find a phone number, I called to hook up and return it.......they were grateful. And I never heard from any police. Oh, and they even stopped by one day with a basket of fruit for the kids.
This is why if you see ANYTHING on the ground, you mind your business and don’t touch it. That will give you plausible deniability and there will be no prints or evidence that you were even there. Staying out of prison is more important than other people getting their stuff back.
Terry Russel --- Ain't the world just fucking wonderful?! I moved to 6 country acres in the mis-eastern part of the country and am hunkered down, because I know that things are only going to get worse. No common sense, no justice, no hope for mankind.
Good Luck and God Help U.S. ! Remember ! keep your farming gear, animals, harvest and storage equipment, Seed Vault and water source under lock and key, as well as powder dry and weapons handy but well hidden !
There was a case where a person sued a guy for pulling them through some poison ivy, while the man risked his own life to pull them out of a burning car. Now that's gratitude for ya...Pathetic !!!
Exactly, people get rewarded for being selfish all the time, in work and in life, and then for some reason people are confused why we have corrupt politicians and greedy selfish bosses. I will tell you why, because you only get there by being corrupt and greedy, that is what is rewarded. You can't change the system without changing that first, stop rewarding people for being shitty, and stop punishing people for being good, and you eventually have more good people and less shitty people.
I lost my phone in a Target parking lot. The phone was unlocked. I thought I had forgotten my phone at home and it would turn up. The next day after not finding my phone I text my phone with my gf's phone. The person responded we met up and they gave me my phone back. I gave them $20 and thanked them. That's how it should go.
Only if it's blatantly intentional. If you "accidentally" kick it into a sewer drain...well...them's the brakes. Also, I would argue in court that the dumbshit should've never lost it, to begin with.
Discovered that myself - several times already - one occasion associated with reporting money I'd once found. Anonymous forms with a provided reference number submitted online are the better option in my opinion. No possible comeback. You've fulfilled your civil and moral obligation, the victim can get their property back, and there's virtually no danger of being painted as the culprit.
Yeah but that's dangerous, they don't pay fines, and it costs the city to incarcerate them. It's all about the government getting $$$. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise. Think of how many unpaid volunteer firefighters there are. How many unpaid volunteer police do we have in this country?
Most criminals are made and manufactured. It’s dumb charges like this that create criminals. If he is found guilty of this charge he’s job prospects are cut by 80%, then what do you do to feed your family? His likely-hood of becoming a career criminal increases by over 200%. The justice system is a scam.
this sends a message to the public that being honest and returning lost property to its owner is going to get you in trouble....the police are acting like robots with no common sense or flexibility , this situation is just absurd.
They have nothing better to do. How pathetic of the person who obviously went to the police and reported it as theft. If he was going to keep it he wouldn't have brought it back. KARMA to the person who filed charges.
+twopoint Takedown Any of them. All the stores are on the same property. You think the businesses don't have a way to communicate about lost property recovered on their premises?
well, there probably WOULD be a police "investigation" against "unknown" thief.... but as that text implies, most likely no result and thus no charges against anyone.
This is exactly what I thought when I read the title of this and this is why also although I like to in general be a helpful kind person it’s almost like better just to mind your own business not intervene in anything and basically don’t get involved with absolutely nothing
They can try to justify it any way they want but any rational human being over the age of 5 knows how absolutely stupid it is to charge him with theft. They should be embarrassed
@@YeetxBoi since 2006 to today there are a average of 5,000 church closings per year and over 3 million less christians. And that doesn't count all of the Christian schools that have shut down. 71% of adults used to be married. Now it's only 49%. On top of that Society shuns Christianity while embracing 3rd world Islamic culture. Like the 3 Islamic men who raped and beheaded those 2 white European girls a few weeks ago in the name of Allah. It's happening all the time in Europe now. And within the next 5 years you are going to start seeing American women getting beheaded. Because god is bad but coexisting with 3rd world savages is good. And trends show that Islam will be the #1 religion in America by 2040. Modern immigrants today all races and background aren't coming here to embrace the constitution, declaration of independence, and bill of rights, they are coming here to invade. This is the modern day Bolshevik takeover
joewillgo something similar actually happened a few years ago actually, there was a kid with a lemonade stand in a city park, and he got fined $50/day for not having a vendors permit
it happened in my town too, the city fined the parents and took them to court for a kid selling drinks. the same kid then got fined for charging people to cut grass.
Joe I highly doubt they were arrested. It is much more plausible they were detained and cited (aka written a ticket). It is also possible they were giving a warning on a previous occasion.
They’re definitely just saying that cover their asses. The police probably want to appear impartial in a case like this, but it’s just common sense that this whole thing makes no sense.
Even if it was a law, that would be a very fucking specific law, you can't expect even 1% of people to know that. If people want to do the right thing, they should be allowed to use their own judgment within reason. Why should good deeds be done in such a particular way to not have to face consequences?
The phone was DEAD. He may have found it in front of the subway, but there were three other businesses to choose from. THIS IS OVER-CRIMINALIZATION. Do not punish your citizens for doing good by holding them to legalities; he took the best action in my opinion. Instead of just taking it anywhere and having it lost forever, he used his better judgement to try to get information to return it.
'should've returned it to a business' idk man something about giving a lost iphone to the 17 year old pothead making sandwiches at subway seems offputting to me
@A apologizing is admitting guilt and they will never do it. Amazing how times have changed where the police have morals or beliefs that we can get behind. Instead they have an agenda. Their only loyalty is to fellow police. In their eyes everyone but police are criminals and they just have to find a reason to put us away.
The right thing is to turn it in asap. He chose to keep it until he felt like turning it in. Could have easily turned it in before leaving or left it there instead of holding on to it until he felt like turning it in.
yeah, return where Einstein. it was lying in the street. not found inside the subway. he was nice enough to return it instead of throwing away in the garbage bin.
Having been in law enforcement I can tell you how sad the system is. Not just alot of the officers, but the courts as well. Alot of them salivate at getting you hemmed up for something. Once they do they don't let go. Even if they are wrong and know you can get cleared. It's like a sick obsession that they even make those times as hard as possible too. Making you jump through hoops and cut through red tape, sometimes taking months out of your life when it should only take 5 minutes to do the right thing and drop it. Officers, prosecutors and judges like that made me sick.They made the job so much harder. When they wondered why people hated law enforcement so much I'd give them an example like the story on this video.
Tool Craze and sue that sheriff cuz I think he’s full of crap. If you find anything in a public parking lot guess what? Finders keepers. There isn’t any law that says you have to return found property. Study the law officer. It’s your job. Sheesh
I know you're just being facetious but even saying that as a joke defeats the purpose. A better statement would be "Now see kids, this is what's wrong with the law and why a police officer should treat each case independently and not classify or categorize them." When a law is counterintuitive, it's time to pull together to change the law instead of circumventing it.
My question for the cop, Are we to assume every employee in every business is honest and wouldn't then take the phone themselves? Well? I'm waiting for an answer.
Assuming the phone was found in front of a business, you should take it to that business and get it out of your possession right away, while calling 911 to report that you found a phone and handed it over to the nearby business. I am sure the business has security cameras and footage that would help any investigation. Taking the phone with you could be considered theft, because you can't prove your good intentions... Most likely the owner of the phone would be a reasonable and grateful person but you might have to deal with a nutjob a criminal etc... You don't know if they purposely abandoned the phone and reported it as stolen to get a new replacement or reimbursement from their insurance. The phone could also be linked to human/drug trafficking or other illegal activity and thus purposely abandoned!! Minding your own business is key, I wouldn't touch an abandoned phone - Not worth the trouble!!
No, but it would make sense, wouldn't it? If I lost my phone near a Subway, I would go look for it at that Subway restaurant. Not at a blokes house 5 miles away?
@@mikkelsteensgaard2395 yeah, and if i found a phone i would take it and wait for someone to call to return it, because idk if that shop owner is gonna just take that phone and bye bye. And if noone called I would hand it to the closest police station where i found it. But not to a fucking business. Someone might have just lost it while going for a run there, why would you ever want to hand it over to a local business..
So he's accused of stealing the phone. If he handed it over to a person in some random business, wouldn't that be receiving stolen property? I mean your just passing around a phone that has no known owner. It's this kind of shit that stops good samaritans from helping people.
By that logic, yes. However, finding abandoned or lost property in the street isn't stealing and he had no duty to return it in the first place... what if you find a $100 bill are you supposed to turn it over to a nearby business?...gtfo
This dude trusted himself over the random business it was lying in front of to get this thing back to the rightful owner. Plain and simple. Any accusations toward him are completely unfounded. Clearly the guy was not trying to pawn the thing, or he would have bricked it immediately. Definitely wouldn't have kept it at his house where it could be traced with GPS. Idiotic justice system FTW. Go chase some drug dealers and gangbangers please.
Michael Broman when you say drug dealers do you mean any drug dealer or the drugs arbitrarily forbidden by the state? should the local chemist clerk be arrested? what about bar tenders?
Anita Bonghit ... dollar tree, they sell 100 tablets reg strenght asprine for a dollar... where children can access it oh dear god im now one of those people haha
Seriously...I agree he tried to do the right thing...if he found it in Subway he would have returned it. Sounds like he found it in the parking lot...how did he know which business to return it to?? By the looks of his home, doesn't look like he needs to steal a cracked phone out of the parking lot...this is ridiculous! They wonder why people don't get involved!
@@jdguy23 was thinking the same thing, just smash it a couple times, and then throw it away, save some poor soul from being attack for doing the right thing.
Slash Le Pew no he wouldn’t you idiot did you even listen to the story? The police arrested him because he didn’t make any attempt to find the owner of the phone until after the location of the phone had been pinged. Meaning they had the location of the phone… Meaning they were going to come and get it if he didn’t respond. Meaning they were going to arrest him for stealing. So no he would’ve not gotten in less trouble that he just kept it you fucking moron. Seriously do you have any idea what year it is?
yeah lol..! i dont get the logic of this cop. why should he turn it over to a privately owned buisness? if he should have left it somewhere, it should be a police station! or better yet track down the owner himself!!
Because we know all Subway employees are treated with enough dignity to protect the store's image. I mean they hire fucking high schoolers. Just run the phone over. End of story.
Not the way it works. The business owner wouldn't be charged with anything. No different than lost and found at any business. Of course, if the business owner proceeded to keep the phone and not treat it as a lost item...then I'd imagine they could charge the owner. As for the guy in the report, the police department is wasting taxpayer money with the charges, but I suspect it's some procedural BS that would be dropped by the judge.
the business's want it returned to them for they can take credit of the good Samaritan. Its all part of their marketing so the customer who gets their phone returned thanks the business and keeps coming back after that. Your all right he should just ran it over with a grin or threw it in the garbage and laughed.
@@gimbobjenkins405 And how does that work? An employee keeps a phone and the police will go through all the footage from all nearby stores every single time someone loses a phone just to find out where it is? Are u kidding me? It's a phone. Not a dead body. No one is gonna investigate a missing phone lmao
Soul 1 , do you know the definition of theft? At least in Australia it is to take something “to permanently deprive the owner thereof”. One day is not permanent.
@Brad Roberts What a dumb ass Trumpster! China has a capitalist economic system. Communism (also an economic system, not a political one) The Chinese Communist Party is only communist by name. The Chinese corporations can exploit their labor force with the best of them, and would make any American Capitalist proud! Some Americans are sheltered and ignorant of the world, which makes them so easy to manipulate. Congratulations... sucker.
@Sunamer Z Yeah, and Trump is very jealous of that ability. Instead, he just relies on HIS Just-us Department to punish his enemies, and reward his friends, or lies and agitates his base into committing violence against some one he doesn't like. How is that any better than Vlad or Xi?
Goodness gracious. He had no way to know if it came from Subway. It could have come from any one of those businesses. He did the right thing. I'd like to know what the judge says to whoever decided to arrest him when dismissing the case.
If that man is to be charged with theft, shouldn't the owner of the phone be charge with littering?
Best comment.
Very true
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And conspiracy to steal a phone.
With this sort of logic I'm surprised the owner of the phone wasn't charged with littering.
Shuuu, don't give them any ideas.
Ted Miller 😂👏👏
Ted Miller - Sadly that isn't inconceivable either lol. "Owner of iPhone charged with littering after accidentally dropping phone on the ground and not realizing."
Well, they did leave trash on the ground.
Hahaha
Law Enforcement does this s..t then wonder why people get pissed at them?
So true
Cops are assholes and masters in bribe taking
Law enforcement didn’t do anything except their job. It’s the judicial system and idiots who lose their phones and then want to sue people.
This is a prime example of how corrupt and worthless our justice system truely is.
Come to UK. They love letting pedo's go free!
That's so fucked up he turned the phone ad got charged this bullshit
Item was lost outside on ground in public, not stolen. All this does is encourage ppl to not to help others.
koe ko The reality is that this is simply an insurance scam. The individual is simply claiming it was stolen so he can make an insurance claim on his property.
I know I won't be helping people anymore. Been burned to many times. Fuck em!
There are specific laws you must follow regarding "found property" ignorance doesn't make up for not following the law
Damo Breeki There are also informal social norms that most people in a society emanate.
koe ko yeah, A thief would have factory resetted it and sold it or keep it. not respond to a text and return it to the owner. I gave someone back their wallet in my home country and they appreciated it and thanked me. When i found a phone in a store a few months back I held onto it and when the owner asked if I saw a phone and i asked her to describe it and she gave me an incredible amount of grief for trying to do the right thing. I think I'll let a dishonest person steal it next time.
I didn't scroll through all of the comments, so just in case...a local attorney took Rick's case at no cost and got the charge dismissed. The good guy prevailed afterall!
this comment needs more attention so people can see the right thing happened in the end.
do you have a link?
I know Rick personally and I know it's a fact. I'll try to find something.
Thank god! That was total bullshit.
still a waste of time
A similar thing happened to me! I returned a lost iPhone and the police decided to question me about it because it was stolen! The couple who lost the phone called the police on me to question me on how I found the phone. I was shocked! Here’s me trying to do a good deed and this is what I got. I will never ever return anything that’s not mine again.
Do what you'd like be done to you.
But yeah, I understand how you felt.
Keep it or sell it next time. That’s essentially what the police wants.
No good deed goes unpunished.
10 years ago I found a phone in a parking lot. I was able to open it and call someone in the contacts to find out who it belonged to. I had the rightful owner come to where I was to retrieve it. I thought the person was thankful but one hour later the cops show up saying I stole it. Luckily there was security footage from the place I was working at that cleared me. But I still had to pay like $3000 in legal fees to get the charges dropped.
Do what's morally right, that trumps anything the law says. Never be intimidated to do the right thing.
I love how in our society the statement " No good deed.." has turned in to a curse. This is how we have a "not my problem" society.
The owner should get charged with littering since they left it on the ground
v8 isn’t that a vegetable juice
Don’t disrespect My fellow L E N N Y S r/woooooosh
@@Namanoh I mean I think he's joking..but it's also a joke he's getting summoned
that's what's up.
@@Namanoh Litter is made of dropped items
Who else is here because this randomly appeared in their recommended?
@the cat man beat me to it
Ive watched this daily i have no idea what you mean
I like eggs
Joseph do u want to chill the fuck out
Me
Man: Help! I lost my phone!
Dude: Hey, is this your phone? I found it by subway.
Man: You found my phone? You must have stolen it!
“What are you going to do the next time you see a lost phone on the floor” probably kick it and walk away
Now you have to think twice to having morals and values and doing the right thing. Shame......
River Rose no, you don’t. Unless you don’t have either of those to begin with.
Welcome to the Leftist America!!!
Maybe so, but I can almost guarantee that many, many more of your kind will take that trip before we ever get there. Make sure to save us a seat!
Im done helping people they are the first to embarrass me or spread rumors or screw me around. Not the world I grew up in!!
And this is why the world is going to shit now doing the right thing is wrong fuck this country. This is not the same country I was willing to give my life for in the army.
This why people wont help each other anymore
This is why people don't trust the cops anymore...
David Jones Whenever I see phones on the ground, I put them in my car and toss them in rivers. Someone tried to get me for theft a couple months ago. I'm not playing games anymore lmao. Good luck finding your shit!
David Jones
So true, whether it be for issues like this, or liability and threat of lawsuit. Just isn't worth the risk these days, to be a good samaritan.
David Jones yep
Ian Battles Is only a few of them while the rest, are actually honest, but the mainstream media just makes it worse, not telling the whole story making it look there's more, which leads to people targeting them, which will force the targeted polices defend themselves and the MSM Reported as though the cop did the targeting, which will get more angry people to target them and the cycle of death continues.
I once found someone's wallet, so I took it to the police thinking I was doing a good deed. They treated me like a criminal.
"what were you doing there, did you steal any of the money, did you consume any drugs, do you do drugs, give me your id..."
When you are a cop everyone without a blue costume looks like a criminal.
If his intent was to "steal" the phone why in the world would he have returned it to the Subway at all? No wonder the courts are so overwhelmed if things like this happen.
So you get ridiculed for not helping, but get criminally charged for helping, America is SO awesome...
True men.this kinda bs always happen in America.
We know phones didn't exist yet but I don't think something like this would have happened back in the 80's assuming it was a wallet or something valuable.
But today?? We live in a shit hole society with a bunch of unqualified idiots in the legislative branch. That includes the judges and district attorney's. Nothing but pathetic imbeciles. The laws are backwards and pretty much only favor the one who supplies the most Benjamins.
This can really happen anywhere tho..
Better off just running over the phone with his car
Reminds me of a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
Hell if someone is stuck in a burning house I might as well do nothing cuz I might get charged for trespassing on private property
Or destruction of property
Yeah... let them burn.. They might sue by saying the person that tried to save me gave me a broken ankle or broke something valuable while trying to save me from the exploding house.
Just wave at them and shit
@Alexander Jones Only in the shit corrupt place called America, my friend!
This is the reality we live in and its so sad. You would probably be blame for the fire and get charged with arson with intent to murder.
‘A local business nearby’ ahh yes let me turn the phone over to a 16 yr old cashier and her 18 yr old manager, much safer
@@tripplefives1402 This one was evidently operable and being used. (Received a text message)
When you give the phone to the cashier, tell the cashier that you will let the police know that you gave the phone to the business.
@@johnstack5008 just leave it in road just touching it could have you charged with theft it isn't worth the problems.
@@mourka01 Many would consider it an act of good citizenship to try to get that phone to the owner. It is risky to touch the wallet, yes, but that person may be willing to take that risk for the sake of feeling good about him/herself for doing an act of kindness.
The cops told him a very good lesson you should never help strangers no matter what’s going on.
they call it the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it
Lucas Brassi boom!
It's a George Carlin quote.
Lucas Brassi this made me laugh
nice one
going to use that one
Those cops need to find some real crimes. Ridiculous.
Yeah, politicians commit all kinds of crimes. They need to be investigated.
The person who pressed charges needs their face all over the news.
RozumUniversalRobot very true
Yeah they're gonna go arrest some people (usually minorities) for smoking a plant or driving down the road at night
unfortunately this was the only case they could solve!
If I found a phone I would see if someone calls it first as well. Usually that's what people do if lose their phone, they call it. This world is crazy. You can't even try to do good deeds anymore without getting in trouble.
my son and I found a phone and called the person he/she called last and asked her to call her friend the owner to call us back. The owner called back and asked us to drop it off where she work which was on the other side of town. Really?………… not even a thank you. She sounded like she’s doing us the favor. We turned it in to the nearest AT&T outlet.
I picked up a phone once....tried to make sure the legitimate owner gets it back and got a lot of grief.
The next one I will drive over TWICE
Found a phone in the road once and called one of the contacts who called the owner and when they came to get it they treated me like a thief. I actually have to throw them off my property as his bitch girlfriend wouldn't shut up. Never again...let the phone get run over
yep !
Terry Johnson : I lost my phone and someone turned it in to the place where I lost it, I asked who turned it in but they wouldn't say, I would've been happy just to give them a 20, with all the contacts that were in the phone.
To bad some people are the way they are that do lose things,.they just don't want to admit to there mistakes I guess.😉
sixpoint3 ...and for running it over you would be charged with destruction of private property. class B. misdemeanor. punishable by a fine up to $1,000.00. and up to one year in the county jail.
frances uhlir : Only if you're stupid enough to get caught.
And reading some of these comments it wouldn't be hard to do.😄
I found an iPhone at walmart once at a register sitting near the CC terminal, I asked the cashier if they knew who it belonged to, to which they didn't, and they didn't care because of the stockpile of customers behind me in line. I took the phone in hand, paid for my groceries and took them to my car. Went back in to the customer service desk and stood in line to turn the phone over to them, and heard a lady talking to one of the associates there about a lost phone. I approached her and asked what type of phone it was, and what color, turned out to be her phone. I handed it over and she accused me of stealing it because I didn't bring it to the service desk immediately. I said lady, I'm not putting my life on hold to return something you left lay around, handed it to her and left. Some people are incredibly ungrateful...
And they wonder why people are bystanders
Well your deeds will be rewarded later on in life
Evan Peters If someone says that ill the the phone back so they have a reason to call me a thief. What an ungrateful person.
You would be surprised at how many people are very ungrateful in this day and age
@@fateleingod14 and entitle
I returned a wallet one time about 5 days after I found it. I was raising 5 children, one very disabled. I had other priorities at the time. And a bit of exhaustion. When I finally had a moment, and was able to track down the person, find a phone number, I called to hook up and return it.......they were grateful. And I never heard from any police. Oh, and they even stopped by one day with a basket of fruit for the kids.
This is why if you see ANYTHING on the ground, you mind your business and don’t touch it. That will give you plausible deniability and there will be no prints or evidence that you were even there. Staying out of prison is more important than other people getting their stuff back.
Exactly!
Another example of the Death of Common Sense and of wasted tax payer money.. . . and this man's peace of mind, time and money.
Terry Russel --- Ain't the world just fucking wonderful?! I moved to 6 country acres in the mis-eastern part of the country and am hunkered down, because I know that things are only going to get worse. No common sense, no justice, no hope for mankind.
Good Luck and God Help U.S. ! Remember ! keep your farming gear, animals, harvest and storage equipment, Seed Vault and water source under lock and key, as well as powder dry and weapons handy but well hidden !
No. It's the state trying to make money.
Seriously, I would love to know how much taxpayer money is wasted on giving this guy a court date.
There was a case where a person sued a guy for pulling them through some poison ivy, while the man risked his own life to pull them out of a burning car. Now that's gratitude for ya...Pathetic !!!
Theifs would keep it.
Good people return it.
Good people get punished for being good.
Criminals are rewarded once again.
Jason Carto Obama's America
the system works as intended
Wolf Remnants of Obama's America
Exactly, people get rewarded for being selfish all the time, in work and in life, and then for some reason people are confused why we have corrupt politicians and greedy selfish bosses. I will tell you why, because you only get there by being corrupt and greedy, that is what is rewarded.
You can't change the system without changing that first, stop rewarding people for being shitty, and stop punishing people for being good, and you eventually have more good people and less shitty people.
Thanks Obama for giving us stupid people!
I will never ever pick up anything from the ground for nothing. Just mined my business. I learned big lessons.
I lost my phone in a Target parking lot. The phone was unlocked. I thought I had forgotten my phone at home and it would turn up. The next day after not finding my phone I text my phone with my gf's phone. The person responded we met up and they gave me my phone back. I gave them $20 and thanked them. That's how it should go.
This country literally makes no sense anymore. Lol
The whole WORLD makes no sense anymore.
@@lovesanityy kid, please do something productive instead of this.
Exactly right
Adam Hill
Shut up, snowflake. Nobody cares about your opinion from your shithole country.
Jaysanityy You're right, it _is_ annoying to see comments like that.
Yep. Next time I see a phone on the ground, I'll do my civic duty to throw it away. Cleaning up litter AND avoiding theft charges. Model Citzen I am
Grant Elliott damn straight
While you are at it.. Smash it so no one else would get charged with theft if they hear it ringing
cornholio Then you'll get charged with destruction of property lol
MrBeard17 not if they cant find the evidence!
Only if it's blatantly intentional. If you "accidentally" kick it into a sewer drain...well...them's the brakes.
Also, I would argue in court that the dumbshit should've never lost it, to begin with.
The charges will be dropped. No competent judge would let this pass.
Who says judges are competent?
When you find out "don't be the nice guy" is real world advice.
Discovered that myself - several times already - one occasion associated with reporting money I'd once found.
Anonymous forms with a provided reference number submitted online are the better option in my opinion.
No possible comeback.
You've fulfilled your civil and moral obligation, the victim can get their property back, and there's virtually no danger of being painted as the culprit.
Dont you have real criminals to be charging?
matt pace true
Seriously... This shit is crazy
Yeah but that's dangerous, they don't pay fines, and it costs the city to incarcerate them. It's all about the government getting $$$. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise. Think of how many unpaid volunteer firefighters there are. How many unpaid volunteer police do we have in this country?
Most criminals are made and manufactured. It’s dumb charges like this that create criminals. If he is found guilty of this charge he’s job prospects are cut by 80%, then what do you do to feed your family? His likely-hood of becoming a career criminal increases by over 200%. The justice system is a scam.
In overland park lol not likely Johnson county is one of the richest in the entire country.
this sends a message to the public that being honest and returning lost property to its owner is going to get you in trouble....the police are acting like robots with no common sense or flexibility , this situation is just absurd.
They have nothing better to do. How pathetic of the person who obviously went to the police and reported it as theft. If he was going to keep it he wouldn't have brought it back. KARMA to the person who filed charges.
"He should've taken it inside to a nearby buisness" okay chief which one of the 15?
twopoint Takedown I was thinking the same thing! It was a strip mall!
+twopoint Takedown
Any of them. All the stores are on the same property. You think the businesses don't have a way to communicate about lost property recovered on their premises?
zipehtzin not really.
Most don't, we just toss lost items in our safe until someone comes in and claims it.
zipehtzin Absolutely not. Honestly, like what phone owner or cop is going to go individually to each store at a strip and ask for a phone?
The messed up thing is if he actually did commit theft and never return it - he would have never been charged.
EarlFaulk hypocrisy at it's finest.
Fuck what you heard, crime pays.
well, there probably WOULD be a police "investigation" against "unknown" thief.... but as that text implies, most likely no result and thus no charges against anyone.
Well apparently they pinged it and were aware of its location. I guess if he never turned it on he prob would have been in the clear.
There is such a thing as iPhone tracking tho.... not saying, just saying....
He turned it in. End of problem. It appears cops are to busy. You wonder why defund the cops get some traction.
I've had someone try and leave it at a store before and the person was like we dont want to deal with it. What do you do then???
And nowadays everyone's wondering why nobody wants to help anymore.
MickeyKnox just take the damn phone to a business if you can't do that then leave the phone as is it's not yours anyways
easy, Sunshine ... why are you so aggressive?
@@MickeyKnox 😂
Zack Fair You're such a dipshit
Zack Fair fuck u
And people wonder why there is so many assholes in the world...this makes me not want to help people!
My god look at those likes 👉😁😊
@@Marco-er4ql Ok.
That's why every time I find an iPhone dont even bother to return it instead I smash it into the ground....
Makes me want to just step on a phone if I see one 😂
This is exactly what I thought when I read the title of this and this is why also although I like to in general be a helpful kind person it’s almost like better just to mind your own business not intervene in anything and basically don’t get involved with absolutely nothing
only in america and I want them to find in the Mississippi after I I throw it out
They can try to justify it any way they want but any rational human being over the age of 5 knows how absolutely stupid it is to charge him with theft. They should be embarrassed
That's BS. You can't trust a business to do the right thing. Now, if I see a phone on the ground, it'll be staying on the ground.
your under arrest
for what?
for returning the phone and for having a good moral
You're*
@@Rakesssh sorry for the wrong spelling
*returning a day later after owner looked for it...there I fixed it for you pare
That's what happens when you kick god out of a country. Now we are in the devils playground
@@YeetxBoi since 2006 to today there are a average of 5,000 church closings per year and over 3 million less christians. And that doesn't count all of the Christian schools that have shut down. 71% of adults used to be married. Now it's only 49%. On top of that Society shuns Christianity while embracing 3rd world Islamic culture. Like the 3 Islamic men who raped and beheaded those 2 white European girls a few weeks ago in the name of Allah. It's happening all the time in Europe now. And within the next 5 years you are going to start seeing American women getting beheaded. Because god is bad but coexisting with 3rd world savages is good. And trends show that Islam will be the #1 religion in America by 2040. Modern immigrants today all races and background aren't coming here to embrace the constitution, declaration of independence, and bill of rights, they are coming here to invade. This is the modern day Bolshevik takeover
In other local news two little girls selling lemonade were arrested today for selling lemonade without food permits.
joewillgo what?! Those terrorists! Who's to say there was no anthrax in that lemonade?
joewillgo something similar actually happened a few years ago actually, there was a kid with a lemonade stand in a city park, and he got fined $50/day for not having a vendors permit
it happened in my town too, the city fined the parents and took them to court for a kid selling drinks. the same kid then got fined for charging people to cut grass.
PJ Barney it's a wonder the lawn's owners weren't hit with child labor charges. 🤦♂️
Joe I highly doubt they were arrested. It is much more plausible they were detained and cited (aka written a ticket). It is also possible they were giving a warning on a previous occasion.
moral of the story is to just leave the phone on the ground
This is why I don't help people. No good deed goes unpunished.
Where in the law does it say he should have brought it to a nearby business. That’s an opinion not a law and they do this thousands of times a year
Exactly.
Some cops are just pricks. Some are great people. It just comes to luck.
They’re definitely just saying that cover their asses. The police probably want to appear impartial in a case like this, but it’s just common sense that this whole thing makes no sense.
They just make shit up and it sticks in court.
Even if it was a law, that would be a very fucking specific law, you can't expect even 1% of people to know that. If people want to do the right thing, they should be allowed to use their own judgment within reason. Why should good deeds be done in such a particular way to not have to face consequences?
The phone was DEAD. He may have found it in front of the subway, but there were three other businesses to choose from. THIS IS OVER-CRIMINALIZATION. Do not punish your citizens for doing good by holding them to legalities; he took the best action in my opinion. Instead of just taking it anywhere and having it lost forever, he used his better judgement to try to get information to return it.
For anyone wondering, there’s rumor that the charges were dropped.
@@liciaface9895 i was, thank you.
True. But also you just kinda stated the obvious
@@DangStank She is just giving her thoughts on the matter
Who cares take it to one of them
I just found someone's phone, keys, and wallet. I just threw them in the trash.
'should've returned it to a business' idk man something about giving a lost iphone to the 17 year old pothead making sandwiches at subway seems offputting to me
I love how the police always justify bringing charges against people, even if they did the right thing.
Jeremy Sarno
Love your country
NEVER trust its government
@A apologizing is admitting guilt and they will never do it. Amazing how times have changed where the police have morals or beliefs that we can get behind. Instead they have an agenda. Their only loyalty is to fellow police. In their eyes everyone but police are criminals and they just have to find a reason to put us away.
Cops are retarded sometimes.
Jeremy Sarno meanwhile if they shoot someone they get a paid vacation.
The right thing is to turn it in asap. He chose to keep it until he felt like turning it in. Could have easily turned it in before leaving or left it there instead of holding on to it until he felt like turning it in.
so never return a phone found on the ground, gotcha, lesson learned.
thanks man.
Steal it instead. Gonna get charged anyway, fuck it.
just burn the prepaid card after extracting the files
just sell it on craiglist if u find out dont forget so say it has a bad esn
yeah, return where Einstein. it was lying in the street. not found inside the subway. he was nice enough to return it instead of throwing away in the garbage bin.
Bobby Bobby: That's theft by finding.
If you find a phone...trash it. To hell with the person who lost it.
This police department should be defunded for being idiots taking Karen's side. She should be charged for filing a false report.
I can't believe that cop justified the charges with a straight face.
Anything for 5 seconds of fame!
Having been in law enforcement I can tell you how sad the system is. Not just alot of the officers, but the courts as well. Alot of them salivate at getting you hemmed up for something. Once they do they don't let go. Even if they are wrong and know you can get cleared. It's like a sick obsession that they even make those times as hard as possible too. Making you jump through hoops and cut through red tape, sometimes taking months out of your life when it should only take 5 minutes to do the right thing and drop it. Officers, prosecutors and judges like that made me sick.They made the job so much harder. When they wondered why people hated law enforcement so much I'd give them an example like the story on this video.
Lesson learned: don't help people
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Help people the right way
Lockon Stratos yeah, throw that fucking phone in the lake.
Lorenzo Haynes maybe
MrHoppers002 you figure it out
Finding is NOT stealing!!! Shame on them for charging him with a crime that didn't take place.
Since when are businesses responsible for holding on to lost items?
He needs to sue the owners of the phone for the hassle of doing the right thing.
Tool Craze and sue that sheriff cuz I think he’s full of crap. If you find anything in a public parking lot guess what? Finders keepers. There isn’t any law that says you have to return found property. Study the law officer. It’s your job. Sheesh
I didn't hear that the owner asked for charges, I think it was just the police.
@@Someonece exactly my thought.
Exactly. He doesn't know what he is talking about. I like the other comment. Wipe it clean and sell that shit.
@@Chriscovelli1 But there is, google theft by finding.
Well, there you go kids.
If you see something on the floor, take it. It's yours now.
Because returning it will just land you in court.
No shit. The whole fuckin system can suck my left nut. Fuck em.
Lol. So sad.
Amen fuck em all
Wow, you CAN be punished for good deeds after all
I know you're just being facetious but even saying that as a joke defeats the purpose. A better statement would be "Now see kids, this is what's wrong with the law and why a police officer should treat each case independently and not classify or categorize them." When a law is counterintuitive, it's time to pull together to change the law instead of circumventing it.
My question for the cop, Are we to assume every employee in every business is honest and wouldn't then take the phone themselves?
Well? I'm waiting for an answer.
Not to mention which business there were stores everywhere what if you picked the wrong one is that also illegal?
Assuming the phone was found in front of a business, you should take it to that business and get it out of your possession right away, while calling 911 to report that you found a phone and handed it over to the nearby business. I am sure the business has security cameras and footage that would help any investigation. Taking the phone with you could be considered theft, because you can't prove your good intentions... Most likely the owner of the phone would be a reasonable and grateful person but you might have to deal with a nutjob a criminal etc... You don't know if they purposely abandoned the phone and reported it as stolen to get a new replacement or reimbursement from their insurance. The phone could also be linked to human/drug trafficking or other illegal activity and thus purposely abandoned!! Minding your own business is key, I wouldn't touch an abandoned phone - Not worth the trouble!!
That Subway is clearly in a plaza with other businesses. How is he supposed to know which store to turn it in to??
Exactly!
"A local business" has no more right to hold the lost phone as the guy who found it.
No, but it would make sense, wouldn't it? If I lost my phone near a Subway, I would go look for it at that Subway restaurant. Not at a blokes house 5 miles away?
@@mikkelsteensgaard2395 I lost mine for a very short while in an Eb games, in Canada, and they tried to keep it, play it off like it wasn't found
@@akumabazooka9169 There are scummy people everywhere, even in stores.
@@mikkelsteensgaard2395 doesnt matter if it would "make sense", we are talking about legality.
@@mikkelsteensgaard2395 yeah, and if i found a phone i would take it and wait for someone to call to return it, because idk if that shop owner is gonna just take that phone and bye bye. And if noone called I would hand it to the closest police station where i found it. But not to a fucking business. Someone might have just lost it while going for a run there, why would you ever want to hand it over to a local business..
Moral of the story: If you see a phone on the ground, leave it be.
The Mexicans in my city will give u cash!! For phones...
stomp on it and mash it in. while thinking of this.
I'll just kick to onto the street and drive over it lol
If you find my phone and return it I will give a reward. Just because one person was an idiot does not make us all idiots!
Michael Jay - Value Investing better yet, don't do nice things for anyone.
This is utter stupidity. We rose up against England for unjust laws and now we have stupidity to deal with
If you find something and return it don't give your name and information. You might get an armed government agent charging you with a crime.
So he's accused of stealing the phone. If he handed it over to a person in some random business, wouldn't that be receiving stolen property? I mean your just passing around a phone that has no known owner. It's this kind of shit that stops good samaritans from helping people.
By that logic, yes. However, finding abandoned or lost property in the street isn't stealing and he had no duty to return it in the first place... what if you find a $100 bill are you supposed to turn it over to a nearby business?...gtfo
Yeah, I've turned in phones and cameras before to security and walked away with the feeling that they are going to just keep the item for themselves.
Heath Pencook ikr..and once it's "receiving stolen property" then it becomes a felony.
This man will now probably think back to this moment, when thinking about helping someone again.
Hell, i would think to this everytime i wanna help someone now
find you here !?
Very sad
I'm done helping people. Fuck 'em all.
Sirajullah M EL-Shabazz you good?
This is a prime example of wasting taxpayer money.
That's why when we were in Psychology class and our professor said, "If you find a lost wallet or phone, what should you do?" I said, "Just leave it".
This dude trusted himself over the random business it was lying in front of to get this thing back to the rightful owner. Plain and simple. Any accusations toward him are completely unfounded. Clearly the guy was not trying to pawn the thing, or he would have bricked it immediately. Definitely wouldn't have kept it at his house where it could be traced with GPS. Idiotic justice system FTW. Go chase some drug dealers and gangbangers please.
Michael Broan amen :)
Michael Broman when you say drug dealers do you mean any drug dealer or the drugs arbitrarily forbidden by the state? should the local chemist clerk be arrested? what about bar tenders?
Anita Bonghit ... dollar tree, they sell 100 tablets reg strenght asprine for a dollar... where children can access it
oh dear god im now one of those people haha
Seriously...I agree he tried to do the right thing...if he found it in Subway he would have returned it. Sounds like he found it in the parking lot...how did he know which business to return it to?? By the looks of his home, doesn't look like he needs to steal a cracked phone out of the parking lot...this is ridiculous! They wonder why people don't get involved!
Anita Bonghit eh just the ones dealing heavy stuff
Almost as bad as the chick suing a guy for saving her life.. Welcome to Earth
Or like someone breaking into your house..getting hurt..then pursue to sue you
That is why Dr., dont stop at auto accidents.
no, welcome to America
that was a hoax
Almost?
Moral of the story: If you find a phone, keep it and sale it to any random person. Its better than being innocently convicted of a crime.
Other people would've even bothered helping. A simple good deed turns into crime. This BS.
Whoever filed charges... There's a special word starting with C for you and it's not cellphone
Cops
jesus, will you just say "cunt" instead of typing that other whole sentence?
But if they dont file charges, they cant sue him!
Its the officer he turned it in to. Hes trying to make quota to get a raise or keep his job
@@47tunes23 Not me Lol
This’s one of the reasons people won’t help anymore
exactly....you get charged for doing the right thing!
@@tikkimann89 yep If a see a phone on the ground I'll just walk by it
@@cirenoskcirederf1628 I'd just crush it "oops sorry?" Lol
That is what I do. There are too many tracking devices on these phones. Just walk past it.
@@jdguy23 was thinking the same thing, just smash it a couple times, and then throw it away, save some poor soul from being attack for doing the right thing.
Since when was finding something someone else lost theft😂😂😂
Theft by find is a crime.
Lesson of the Day. Never do anything good for anyone else. It will only get you in trouble.
No good deed goes unpunished. This is why people are either afraid or just don't want to help anyone. We live in a sad world.
and then when it actualyl is theft, the same fuckers just stand around and watch not doing anything to stop it
yup they say nothing they can do.
When a man (or woman) has nothing, they can still have faith. Don't let this detour you
Faith in what? God? Fuck tht.
people are afraid to get fucked over thats why
I guess if I see someone bleeding out after being shot I'll just pretend I didn't see anything. Don't want to be charged with manslaughter.
Jokes on you, you'll just be charged with neglect.
Eccentric. Hooper It's still neglect.
You have to turn the body in immediately to the nearest business.
+ClockworkGearhead LOL!
OMG LOL
If you see trash on the ground, throw it away. Don't allow liter to accumulate in the streets.
Note to self: If I ever find a phone I'll pick it up and throw it in the nearest trashcan.
Recycle it for the environment, but ok
He would've had less trouble if he just kept the phone lol.
Slash Le Pew no he wouldn’t you idiot did you even listen to the story? The police arrested him because he didn’t make any attempt to find the owner of the phone until after the location of the phone had been pinged. Meaning they had the location of the phone… Meaning they were going to come and get it if he didn’t respond. Meaning they were going to arrest him for stealing. So no he would’ve not gotten in less trouble that he just kept it you fucking moron. Seriously do you have any idea what year it is?
@@evilsWa whoa there keyboard warrior. Get out of your mother's basement, take a shower for once and have a snickers..
@@evilsWa u r spum
evilsWa - beyond pandora films you know there’s a way to reset the whole phone you idiot 😂
@@evilsWa location has to be on to find exact location otherwise you get last known cell tower radius
America, where everyone will sue anyone for anything
YEP lol
The low life lawyers made it this way so they can scam the system out out money.
Where was the lawsuit? Nothing in the story I watched about that.
That was a general statement about our legal system.
@@55chevytruck weird to make such a random statement about the legal system on an unrelated video, isn't it?
This is down to the police dept. They've got no care that they are labelling an innocent man a thief...
People get arrested for stupid things in America....A place I pray I never have to visit 🤦♀️
Return it to store = owner of store is charged with possession of stolen property.
yeah lol..! i dont get the logic of this cop. why should he turn it over to a privately owned buisness?
if he should have left it somewhere, it should be a police station! or better yet track down the owner himself!!
Because we know all Subway employees are treated with enough dignity to protect the store's image.
I mean they hire fucking high schoolers. Just run the phone over. End of story.
hahahahahahaha i actually laughed so hard on this :D so true....America is f*cked :O
Not the way it works. The business owner wouldn't be charged with anything. No different than lost and found at any business. Of course, if the business owner proceeded to keep the phone and not treat it as a lost item...then I'd imagine they could charge the owner.
As for the guy in the report, the police department is wasting taxpayer money with the charges, but I suspect it's some procedural BS that would be dropped by the judge.
the business's want it returned to them for they can take credit of the good Samaritan. Its all part of their marketing so the customer who gets their phone returned thanks the business and keeps coming back after that. Your all right he should just ran it over with a grin or threw it in the garbage and laughed.
'Hand it in to the nearest business?'
What makes you think any business is more ethical than an individual?
The people are definitely not but most places of business have cameras.
@@gimbobjenkins405 And how does that work? An employee keeps a phone and the police will go through all the footage from all nearby stores every single time someone loses a phone just to find out where it is? Are u kidding me? It's a phone. Not a dead body. No one is gonna investigate a missing phone lmao
Soul 1 , do you know the definition of theft? At least in Australia it is to take something “to permanently deprive the owner thereof”. One day is not permanent.
Soul 1 , thanks for the clever input. You big brave keyboard warrior.
@Soul 1 did you forget the fact that he returned the phone
Even doing something nice if done incorrectly can get you in trouble. The bystander effect only grows.
If he was found guilty the judge should lose their job and life , disgusting
Thanks again to the America legal system for instilling the “don’t help or get involved” mentality in people
@Brad Roberts Arrested for turning in a phone? How free is America, Brad? Not too far from China, me thinks.
@Space Roamer Yeah, and you're an arsehole. But I'm sure you already know that.
@Brad Roberts What a dumb ass Trumpster! China has a capitalist economic system. Communism (also an economic system, not a political one) The Chinese Communist Party is only communist by name. The Chinese corporations can exploit their labor force with the best of them, and would make any American Capitalist proud! Some Americans are sheltered and ignorant of the world, which makes them so easy to manipulate.
Congratulations... sucker.
@Sunamer Z Yeah, and Trump is very jealous of that ability. Instead, he just relies on HIS Just-us Department to punish his enemies, and reward his friends, or lies and agitates his base into committing violence against some one he doesn't like.
How is that any better than Vlad or Xi?
@Sunamer Z You've never been past the McDonalds in your po-dunk town. So how would you know?
Should charge phones, not men who return them.
@@davidmedina3031 Room for one more? Even if it's just sitting in the corner watching I want in.
If the owner of the phone charged that man for theft, that’s pathetic 🙄
Goodness gracious. He had no way to know if it came from Subway. It could have come from any one of those businesses. He did the right thing. I'd like to know what the judge says to whoever decided to arrest him when dismissing the case.
And they wonder why people become bystanders when shit happens
Facts 💯 💪 try to help and they arrest you might as well just walk on by
Exactly
Yup
Well there's also the bystander effect, which doesn't help the odds with this lingering over us
For NYC it's the best thing anyone can do. Just leave if it has nothing to do with you.