What did he have to say for himself?

I wonder if "Emerson" was, at least, a little remorseful for not having contacted the owner of the phone in the first place. Or... he looks like somebody who would shirk responsibility. So either way, it wouldn't really surprise me.

Remember the sticker with your dad's contact info on it that Emerson tore off? Did he return that?

Im curious what emerson looks like, i have a wager with myself - anyone have the pictures still?

The call history nuked? Hopefully nothing, but if you can check your logs online, do so, it would suck if he placed a bunch of 900 number calls, or such.

Did Emerson offer to Friend the dad? To do otherwise would be r-u-d-e.

@Davan:
Are you asking if he was black?

@Irashtar: Agreed. However, the previous stories said that the OP had suspended service on the phone once they realized it was missing, so that would prevent a lot of unauthorized charges.

@Davan: If you were betting on "one-armed man", you win!

Emerson is lucky the Dad didn't file a police report and press charges. Even if he dropped the phone, it is unlawful to keep something that isn't yours.

Technically, it is theft unless Emerson attempted to find/contact the owner and register it at the police station for a period of days. THEN he can claim finders keepers.

The ONLY reason the douche returned the phone was b/c his pics and evidence of theft were online.

@I_am_Awesome: Wow you are racist - is that really the first thing that popped into your head?

@Davan: I seem to recall that someone posted a link to his hi-5 account in yesterday's original post. There are photos of him there, I think.

Actually, as a general rule it is not unlawful to keep "found" property, although it depends on individual state laws and where you found it (public area, private area, etc.). Generally speaking, a finder of lost property has good title to the property over everyone in the world except the true owner, although the fact that contact information for the true owner was available may mean there was a duty for the finder to notify the true owner.

Glad to see it was a happy ending after all.

@fenrisulfr:

I like happy endings.

@Michael Swick: Got anything to support this general rule? I thought people needed to report found property to the police and if unclaimed, the finder can keep it

hmm this gives me an idea..

quick! consumerist! someone stole the american dream! now they're forcing us to contribute money to make up for their mistakes! let's see if the readers can fix this

@Dooley: I see what you did there, perv.

@Davan:

@Davan: He looks like a swarthy college guy with a faux-hawk. Probably in his early 20's. Average build.

@paul:

This is neophyte speaking, pray tell how do you insert a photo into the comments space?

Eeek, is Emerson the real name? I used to date a guy named Emerson, not too far from that area. Wonder how old this guy is.

(laughing...)

@Irashtar: The owner who lost it deactivated the SIM that was in the iPhone. The person who found it, if he was able to make any calls at all, would have had to use his own SIM, so any calls he made were on his own dime.

@Blueskylaw: leave off the end bracket. everything else is standard html:
[img src="pic_url"

replace "[" w/ "<"

@Blueskylaw: use img tags - img src="www.test.com/photo.jpg" (wrapped in triangle brackets)

@paul: that look just screams douchebag

@paul: Wow, that is 50x worse than what I was expecting him to look like. I mean, you guys were reacting to his pictures by calling him a douche, but that has to be the king douche, the douchiest of all douches, the überdouche. This guy has a lot more to worry about than being caught stealing an iPhone and mercilessly ridiculed on the internet. Though, as a woman, I have to say he's got a nice manicure going on there.

@paul: Wow thank you for the picture - I win the bet! Now to pay myself 50 bucks

@boobaloob: He's probably gay (manicure) and a douche!

Do not want!

So seriously, did anyone save all the pictures and considers putting them up on 4chan? cuz if you do, that kids life is over with all the assholes in 4chan ripping him a new one...

He must have known about the "missing" phone deal that exploded a couple of years back. Thankfully he bailed early and wasn't a clod about it.

@Michael Swick: Oh, my... someone's taking Property class in law school.

I know its late in the game, but I swear that in the exif data it gives lat and long cordniates for the iphone.

@theblackdog: You have to be het to look THAT lame.

@mythago: You haven't been to a "twink" gay bar lately, have you?