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- Slicebox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+94Not surprisingly, most people caught and confronted by Chris Hanson said they just wanted to hang out with the iPod, they didn't know the iPod was that young...
- AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+47"Found: iPod, white, exactly like millions of others, no identifying characteristics. Please identify to claim."
WTF are they expecting when they LEAVE them to be found?
They're setting people up, then calling it theft. If this were in a store and no employees around, then yeah, it's still theft. But to leave them in the open? At that point, it's just finders keepers when there's not a way to really find an owner.
I once found a high-end camera on the train, listed it on Craigslist, and had several people claim it via e-mail, and not one got a major identifying detail right. I later chucked it on eBay. By Dateline's standards, I'm a thief for stealing a camera I found on a train seat. - fpcyber, on 10/10/2007, -6/+45***** Blog Spam
MSNBC Dateline Article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20078671/ - ChromaVita, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33I swear, she told me she was a G2!
- nixonrichard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+32What do you have in the bag there? Looks like an armband, and docking station and . . .what's this? A protective sleeve? What were you planing to do with that?
- jake57, on 10/10/2007, -3/+32Yeah, I saw this when it first aired.
Completely ridiculous the way they make apple look for not keeping a database of every iPod ever, especially with their 'hidden cameras' and dramatic music, and how they portray people who take iPods from an empty table. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+26The people aren't stealing them! There's a difference between breaking in or mugging someone for an ipod and finding one. They just leave the ipods unattended in high traffic areas. I wouldn't rob someone but I sure as hell would take one if I found it on the street.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Nothing as embarrassing? I'd much rather be caught picking up an iPod I found on the street than showing up expecting to molest a kid.
- MasterFunk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17"Why don't you take a seat right over there and tell me what you planned on doing with that iPod"
- Me1000, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14To catch a Podophile!
- edlowe0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I would have sex with an underage iPod.
- DietMountainDew, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Sorry, but if you're dumb enough to leave your new iPod on the street unattended it is fair game for anyone as far as I am concerned.
- jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11one minute you're stealing iPods, the next minute you're molesting children. It's inevitale. Have to stop them before they harm the children.
- kindrobot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10I find it endlessly hilarious to imagine what must go through someone's brain when Chris Hansen walks up to them. Even if they just snagged an ipod, they must be going through a mental inventory of who they've chatted with, who they've slept with, who they've spoken to, etc.
"was she 18? she said she was 22.... " - jhaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8"There's probably nothing quite as embarrassing as being ambushed on national television by Chris Hansen for stealing a measly iPod"
Except, maybe, being ambushed on national television by Chris Hansen for attempting to solicit sex from a minor... - smackywentz, on 10/10/2007, -8/+16A lot of these Dateline scandals boil down to entrapment.
- inobla, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Bah. I wish all iPod articles were labeled as Apple news so my filter would stop them from coming up. I'm so sick of all the *****.
- mr.hostility, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Up next on Dateline...
"We leave $300 in cash on a bench in the park and watch it disappear!" - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11Don't they have predators to catch?
- real2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Mind if I sit down and think this over? I'm feeling very nauseous.
- xSEED, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5stick with predators dude
- kindrobot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Oh boy, another digger who forgot to look somewhere besides dictionary.com:
Main Entry: en·trap·ment
Pronunciation: -m&nt
Function: noun
1 a : the action or process of entrapping b : the condition of being entrapped
2 : the action of luring an individual into committing a crime in order to prosecute the person for it
Notice even two does not specifically mention law enforcement? One makes it clear you're dead wrong. - techweenie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Nest week: Zune-jackers.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You have alot of time don't you.
- morningmatters, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4WTF, next time they should do a show based on stolen GPS systems. I got mine stolen last week and according to the police dozens are stolen daily in boston.
- indicas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5No, the cops do.
- Nudar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6You're still a thief. I leave my car parked on the street. It doesn't mean it's fair game for anyone to come take nor is an ipod I leave in the front seat. Why are people digging up the thief?
- nofrak1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5They do have a database of every registered iPod, at least.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Entrapment is getting someone to commit a crime they would not otherwise have committed. As in, someone convinces you to commit a crime (in a court of law, this means the police). This is a sting because whether the Dateline people put the iPod and the purse there, or whether someone legitimately left it, the result would have been the same.
- err0r503, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I remember when Dateline was a good and informative show.
- DephexTwin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4No, there are hundreds of us.
- HunterTV, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"Zune owners are purposely leaving their Zunes all over the place for someone else to take them off their hands, it's becoming a real problem."
- HunterTV, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6stop
- dgarallenpoe, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Dateline has become one of the most evil shows on television. Let me get this straight...you leave an ipod on a bench in the mall or park all by itself and someone takes it, and that's stealing? Then you trick these people in to going somewhere and exposing them before millions of viewers as thieves. Even if you could argue that it was theft, and, admittedly in some situations it was, deliberately ruining one reputation before so many people via tactics of entrapment is a far more sever penalty than would ever be meted out, typically, for such an offense in a court of law. Dateline claims the moral high ground when in fact they are the lowest of the bottom feeders. Totally shameful.
- unexplainedmilk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4What's more disturbing is that they paid $40,000 for this phony registration app. WTF!?!! There's not even a Mac version... they should included a huge card or sticker inside that told them to go to ipodregistration.com or something official-sounding/looking to cover Mac users and even just had Windows auto-run that website for the people that used the iTunes CD (I can't believe any of these people didn't already have iTunes) and skipped the Windows form application altogether.
- cyrix, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4But that makes you an iJacker... Or at least this is what the call it. I lol'd after hearing them say that.
I'm an iJacker...but only in private. - drouk1556, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5"I.....am Chris Hansen"
- kenwestin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Can you how me on the iPod doll?
- kenwestin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Why not go for the fully monty and solicit sex with a minor in exchange for a stolen iPod.
- FoxOrian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"Some of the iPods were not found probably because they were never connected to a computer."
Yeah, or, you know, they were Mac users.... - actorboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Dateline is the new Cheaters.
- ShyGuy91284, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5"There's probably nothing quite as embarrassing as being ambushed on national television by Chris Hansen for stealing a measly iPod. " Whatch the show more often. I can assure you, there is.....
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Well, at least you put the camera on Craigslist. Although in hindsight, you should probably have dropped it off at the train station because that's where the person who lost it would be calling. Either way, it's wrong to just grab something that doesn't belong to you and keep it, especially without making an effort to find the owner. Calling it "stealing" if it were just lost may be a bit much, but it's still wrong.
- 808kick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3So If i find your house keys or car keys, then proceed to find your car or house just sitting there you'd be cool with it?
- Randinn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Wow, you've been dug-down for that statement, I wonder how many thieves did it....
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Who the hell would steal a zune?
- tokyopimp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm sorry, but if I see an iPod on a bench, I would try my best to find out whom it belonged to and give it back. I guess stuff like that matters to me, because given the position of having stupidly left my iPod on a bench I would hope that someone would do the same. What can I say I am a nice person, and I would wish that most people would do the same.
I'm not agreeing with dateline and how they do things, but stealing is stealing, no matter how you try to spin it. If you see something on a bench that was left by someone else obviously as an iPod is not a natural thing, then you are stealing.
Hey I leave my car in parking lots all the time, without anyone sitting near it. So I guess it's okay to take it? - tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Neither of you are right about how entrapment is used in this case. See my reply above.
- 808kick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Old school
- orangester, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What, no Mike's Hard Lemonade for the iPod?
btw... I lol'd at i-jacking. -
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