Mobile phone thief returns phone after 21 touching messages

[Henia 11]

A Chinese thief has returned a mobile phone and thousands of yuan he stole from a woman after she sent him 21 touching text messages, Xinhua news agency said on Monday.

Pan Aiying, a teacher in the eastern province of Shandong, had her bag containing her mobile phone, bank cards and 4,900 yuan ($630) snatched by a man riding a motorcycle as she cycled home on Friday, Xinhua said, citing the Qilu Evening News.

Pan first thought of calling the police but she decided to try to persuade the young man to return her bag.

She called her lost phone with her colleague’s cell phone but was disconnected. Then she began sending text messages.

“I’m Pan Aiying, a teacher from Wutou Middle School. You must be going through a difficult time. If so, I will not blame you,” wrote Pan in her first text message which did not get a response.

“Keep the 4,900 yuan if you really need it, but please return the other things to me. You are still young. To err is human. Correcting your mistakes is more important than anything,” Pan wrote.

She gave up hope of seeing her possessions again after sending 21 text messages without a reply.

But on her way out on Sunday morning, she stumbled over a package that had been left in her courtyard only to discover it was her stolen bag. Nothing had been taken.

“Dear Pan: I’m sorry. I made a mistake. Please forgive me,” a letter inside said.

“You are so tolerant even though I stole from you. I’ll correct my ways and be an upright person.”

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/china_thief1_dc

[Savanphil 3]

Wow, what a very pleasent theif and victim....

[Henia 11]

Wow, what a very pleasent theif and victim....

Yes, I thought so. I doubt this situation would this pleasant if it happened here in the US thou. But sure glad to see we humans can still work throu our problems and also forgive.

[Savanphil 3]

If that were me I would have been sending messages like " give me back my F@#$ing stuff you thieving ba$tard. Or "If I find out who you are I will kill you"....

[Henia 11]

Ye I would have too...

[Traviesa 0]

I had lost one of my cell phones in a parking lot on Sunday. Rather than turning it in to the store or leaving it where it was, someone picked it up and took it home. I was actually sending text messages asking if they could please call my other phone and that the phone was really important to me because it has pictures of my husband and my dog who died at Christmas time. Of course they waited until AFTER I had already deactivated the phone and then called my mom, who went to their house to pick it up. I was very very lucky to get the phone back, I was literally at the register to purchase a replacement phone when my mom called me. Were they good guys? Who knows, but I'm sending them a thank you note anyway. At least I got my phone (and pictures) back.

This also reminds me of the time when my phone was stolen in Mexico and we had to pay the lady to give it back lol!

[Jenn! 918]

LOL. For some reason, I thought the "touching messages" were gonna be something else entirely.

[Henia 11]

LOL. For some reason, I thought the "touching messages" were gonna be something else entirely.

This also reminds me of the time when my phone was stolen in Mexico and we had to pay the lady to give it back lol!

[kisschick1976 0]

do you all remember the stolen Sidekick story from last spring?

they started this website:

http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/Original/

and it got world wide coverage. The victim had access to the pictures the girl was taking so she posted them. people were hearing about the story and stalking the girl who stole the phone and her family! She was eventually arrested and the first girl got her sidekick back

was an internet meme for a while...

http://stolensidekick.ytmnd.com/