IPad found through craigslist

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...<p>I moved to the Bay Area from Lake Tahoe. It was the second or third day of my new job, and I had to bring in my paperwork for human resources. Took BART downtown from the East Bay, then rode my bike to the office. I must have missed a zipper in my backpack, and my wallet (along with my social security card, credit cards, and some cash) decided to bail out somewhere downtown.<p>I didn't realize it right away, but rather that night when I actually needed to get everything to HR. I immediately called to get my cards turned off, but was pretty worried having my social security card and drivers license out in the wild. I was able to plead my case with an AC Transit bus driver, get a free ride back to the East Bay, and planned on drinking one of the few beers I had in my fridge.<p>Some point during that beer, there was a knock on the door. The person on the other side was from the south bay, had a meeting in the city, and had my wallet in hand. He took the time to go well out of his way to return my identity. Only thing he asked for?<p>Pass it on.<p>So happy to hear another story like this.

A few days ago, my wife's boss found a backpack with a cell phone, camera, and iPod in it. The pack was covered in leaves and sitting near a small stream. My wife called the "Mom" entry on the cell phone. The mother lives out-of-state, and hadn't heard anything, but said her son is diabetic.<p>She put my wife in touch with the owner's cousin, who went up to look near where the backpack was-- and found the owner in the stream, looking pretty beat-up. We haven't heard the denouement yet, so we don't know whether the owner was robbed and left in the stream, or fell in as the result of a diabetic attack.

"Do good deeds lavishly without limit". It affects people. :) Even the small things. We don't need to make apps that change the world do make it a better place.

I never had the passcode + data wipe feature turned on on my iPhone (I've never lost a phone in my life and it is such a schlepp to enter a passcode when all you want to do is skip to the next track).<p>However, when I got my iPad, I immediately realized the chances of it going missing are probably higher (no slip-into-pocket convenience) so I activated passcode + data wipe on it (and also on my iPhone).<p>A <i>great</i> feature would be that the devices <i>know</i> when I'm in my apartment and in that case <i>not</i> require the passcode.

Maybe they were bloggers just afraid the police would have knock down their door...

The general topic reminds me of the book "The selfish gene" by Richard Dawkins (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene</a>).

Oh. I thought someone was able to find an iPad to <i>buy</i> on Craigslist (that wasn't a scam).<p>I was skeptical until reading this scenario. It is much more believable.