The Mystery of Lost and Found Cellphone
By Morning Girl
@salonga (27775)
Philippines
January 23, 2017 1:24am CST
My son went to the comfort room of his office building to wash his hands. But as he walked toward his office, he noticed his phone was not with him and remembered that he left it near the sink so he immediately went back to the CR. But the phone was not there anymore and there was nobody there. So he went to the Security Department to report the incident.
My son together with the Security Officers went back to the Comfort Room to search again but found it not. A Security Officer tried calling the missing phone and it was ringing. The missing phone was apparently inside the comfort room because they could hear it ringing. They all tried to trace where the ringing sound was coming from.
Eventually, it was found in the garbage can of one of the cubicles. It was topped up by tissue papers. My son did not use that cubicle so it was obvious that someone hid it there. My son was so thankful that that person was unable to turn off the phone before hiding it, otherwise, goodbye cellphone. But who was he?
Have you lost something and was able to get it back?
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31 responses
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
23 Jan 17
no, i have not YET lost a cell phone, but my cellphone was stolen when i was the HN. that Nokis cellphone was so precious to me because it was given by my brother.
it was the Nokia 3310, and it was the latest model in 2002. 
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
24 Jan 17
@ridingbet nokia 3310 was my first phone too. i saved up for it. it's probably the most durable nokia model.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
24 Jan 17
@salonga indeed. P2000 was already dear that time. i still have the 3310 and 3315, but the batteries are now drained and gone.
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
23 Jan 17
@louievill That was exactly what my son told me, the suspect did not know how to turn it off or even how to take off the battery. Thank God!
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 Jan 17
One logical reason is he did not know how to.
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
23 Jan 17
Glad he was able to find the phone and it was still on and the person who found it, did not turn it off!
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@infatuatedbby (95001)
• United States
23 Jan 17
@salonga yes you got that right! He needs to keep an eye on his phone =)
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 Jan 17
If there is a cctv camera in the area they could see who entered the rest room or comfort room as how we Filipinos call them before your son left
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
23 Jan 17
i remember missing wallets were sometimes found in the trashcans placed in stairwells of office buildings and malls. did he notice other people there, employees, visitors, janitors/janitress as he went to the toilet, while he was there or meet people on their way there when he left?
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
23 Jan 17
No one was there when he entered and when he returned there was no one there either and did not also meet anyone on his way back there.
@Letranknight2015 (51532)
• Philippines
23 Jan 17
Who ever took it, I'm glad he or she was not smart enough to turn off the phone. This is why I'm not bring my other but advance phone out there.
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@Letranknight2015 (51532)
• Philippines
25 Jan 17
@salonga yesterday I decided to buy her a less expensive phone.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
24 Jan 17
@salonga oh, but Nokia, being the original smart phone ever invented, is not longer cheap, my friend. latest editions are coming out in the tech market;unless the Nokia is a 3310? hahaha!
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
1 Feb 17
In my opinion, it could be the janitor who went there to clean and saw that so he hid it there first, so when he comes back to gather all the contents of the trash bins, he has the overall garbage bag to dump it into. It won't be inspected by the guards after all.
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@averygirl72 (37726)
• Philippines
23 Jan 17
Your lucky you still find a way to get it back. Sometimes it hard to get it back when you left your cellphone. Someone will be interested easily to get it
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
16 Mar 17
Good thing your son got back his phone ... I haven't lost anything outside of home ..
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
20 Mar 17
@epiffanie Me too, the details there are more important to me so you could just imagine how I went crazy when I lost my phone twice.
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
19 Mar 17
@salonga I would be anxious losing my phone as it has some personal details and notes..
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
23 Jan 17
Yes, it is not good if there is a thief around the working place.
@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
31 Jan 17
Same thing happened to my cousin. She said that she only uses the mirror to check herself and put her iPhone in the sink and she never went to one of the cubicles. And suddenly rushed towards her table, when she noticed she left her iPhone in the comfort room. She finds it nowhere. She called it and she found her phone inside the pot of a plant near one of the cubicle and wrap with tissue. Then she rushed again to the cctv department to check who hide it, it was a janitor who saw them.
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@luisadannointed (4171)
• Philippines
3 Mar 17
that's a bit scary... Someone was trying to steal your son's phone. But glad he recover it. God bless.
I can't really remember anyway if something is missing I saw it after a month when I am doing a general cleaning lol!
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
5 Mar 17
Sometimes we only misplace things. I had lots of misplaced things due to forgetfulness lol, call it sign of aging.
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
26 Jan 17
Although we have had things go missing and had these returned, there are some items we know we will never see again.
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