What's My Line? I Paid Someone for It, So It's Mine!

A certain receiver of stolen property is either awfully arrogant or totally ignorant of how this whole telephone ownership thing works – like, the fact that you have to pay a regular bill for actually using it.

According to a police report:

A resident of the 8200 block of Stickney Avenue reported to Saturday that she believed her smart phone had been stolen from her unlocked car during the first week of April.

She said that at first she thought she had just misplaced it. But then she noticed messages were being deleted from her e-mail account and realized someone had her phone and was using it.

She called it from her work phone, and sure enough, a man answered. She told him the phone had been stolen from her and she wanted it back, but he refused, saying he had paid for it.

So naturally, she called her service and had it canceled. Whereupon the man called her back from a different number and, in a screaming, profanity-laced tirade, berated her for canceling “my phone!"

She couldn't get a word in edgewise to explain to him that while it might for now indeed be "his" phone, she was under no particular obligation to continue to pay for him to use it.