Chinese iPhone thief sends 11 pages of handwritten contacts back to victim

Chinese iPhone thief sends 11 pages of handwritten contacts back to victim

Losing your smartphone can be a nightmarish affair, especially in cases where the device gets stolen. Apart from the financial loss, most of us get affected by the loss of valuable data and contacts. A barman in China, whose iPhone was reportedly stolen, has been spared this fate by a thoughtful thief who sent back his entire address book in the form of handwritten notes. According to a translated report from China’s Xinhua news agency, the pickpocket was believed to have nicked the Apple handset from the victim, Zou Bin, when they shared a taxi. While talking to the source, the victim said that he had nearly 1,000 numbers saved on the device and no back-up copy.

Why can't everyone be as considerate?

Keen to get his stolen property back, Bin, using another device to send text messages to his stolen iPhone, said, “I know you are the man who sat beside me. I can assure you that I will find you.” In another message, the iPhone owner said, “look through the contact numbers in my mobile and you will know what trade I am in. Send me back the phone to the address below if you are sensible.” The thief, however, did not respond to the victim’s text messages. Days later, Bin was “fossilised”-the Chinese colloquialism for being astonished- to receive a parcel with his SIM card and 11 pages of carefully handwritten contact numbers. According to the XiaoXiao Morning Herald, Bin said that he was only bluffing when he sent those messages and didn’t expect the thief to return his iPhone 4. While talking to the Xinhua, Bin said, “It would take a while to write from one to one thousand, let alone names and a whole string of digits. I suppose (the thief’s) hand is swelling." Chinese Internet users were reported applauding the thief’s efforts toward returning the victim’s contacts back, dubbing him the “the conscience of the (theft) industry.” One user of Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, reportedly posted, “What a sympathetic and faithful thief, one who values professional ethics.”

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