National Crime Blotter

Alright! Stealing mobile 'phones is a "national crime epidemic." Why "alright?" Because this web log is in favor of many so-called criminal acts, especially those performed against assholes, the wealthy & most especially wealthy assholes, although that's a mighty fine distinction.

Another positive result is that the scummy nature of corporations is (again, & when the hell will the sheep wise the fuck up?) clearly displayed.

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón recently held an acrimonious conference call with the nation’s largest wireless carriers and their lobbyists*. “They refused to even entertain the idea of a technological solution to this,” Gascón said about the February call. “I told them in no uncertain terms that I believed they were motivated by profit and not social responsibility.” He plans to meet this week with representatives of Apple, maker of the iPhone, which is a major target of cellular thieves, to press his case for new technology that would allow phones to be permanently disabled after a theft.

In Washington, police chief Cathy Lanier says new federal laws are needed to mandate that all wireless carriers participate in new database systems that make it difficult to resubscribe stolen phones to cellular service. She is also pushing to shut down third-party buyers and resellers of phones, which she blames in part for a recent uptick in cell-phone crime reports in Washington. “Everybody is making money off the victims of street crime,” she said. “So it’s just very frustrating.”

"Everybody" but us, so locals had best watch it if we're near you & we see you blathering into your 'phone, holding it as if you were Linus from Peanuts w/ his security blanket.

Look familiar? Substitute a 'phone for the blanket & it's YOU!!

Just grow the fuck up already. No matter how much time you spend squawking on your 'phone, you will always be alone.

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*About a step above gun manufacturers & the NRA.