"Hullo, you don't know me, but…"
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When someone steals something from you, you want your something back.
But, if you’re a well-adjusted human, you also want justice.
Please imagine, then, the feelings of Eliza Webb as she got into her car and felt something wasn’t quite right.
Where were her shades? Where were her running shoes? Yes, she lives in Seattle, but these things are still useful there. And the car was a mess. Surely her husband hadn’t done this.
Then, as ABC News reports, she noticed a black cell phone on the driver’s seat.
With a touch of lateral thinking, she imagined this phone belonged to the alleged thief.
It can’t have had a passcode, as Webb said she examined the phone and found “mom” on speed dial.
Perhaps because she herself works with teens, she thought a call to this “mom” might be more effective than a call to her local police.
“I said, ‘This is a very uncomfortable phone call to make. I have your son’s phone and I’m missing some things out of my car and I think they might be two related items,” she told ABC News Seattle affiliate, KOMO.
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