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Central Square Starbucks turns into home base for pair of cell phone thieves
By adamg on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 10:33pm
Here's a photo of the two using the coffee shop's free wireless to help "jailbreak" some of the phones they've allegedly grabbed from customers at the Starbucks or the Au Bon Pain. A worker at another area Starbucks reports they were banned at her outlet for similar behavior.
Innocent, etc.
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Innocent?
etc?
Indeed
I usually only do that for people who are named, but, yes, a photo is kind of incriminating (I wouldn't have even run it save for the note I got from somebody at the other Starbucks).
come on!
Incriminating? How? There are a million innocent things they could be doing in that extremely grainy photograph.
I work at that Starbucks. Those two are there every day, and the police have been watching them, but there is NO EVIDENCE that they're doing anything illegal - they're just kind of annoying.
Not to mention
They tip well.
Right?
I don't understand people can
I don't understand people can write something so wrong we don't steal we have ate own phones we don't need anyones people just het a little jelouse but that's ok the truth will come out sincey two people drinking coffee &enjoying a little computer & phone time on their own thank u for caring &wasting tax pagers money.
M & K...
...are EXCELLENT people, helping the poor of Central Square in more ways than people can imagine.
Consider: a homeless man finds a cell phone and brings it to M, who puts a charge on it. He then tries to call "home" or another recently listed call to return the phone. More often than not, the phone owner is so happy to get the phone back and avoid having to repopulate a new phone book that he gives the homeless man a reward for his probity.
Consider: a poor resident of Cambridge has acquired a laptop from one of several charitable organizations and needs help learning how to job-search Chaigslist; M shows him the ropes.
Consider: a poor resident finds a laptop in the trash - yes, I know that Cambridge residents are supposed to, but often don't, recycle their computers on Hampshire Street - and M tweaks the balky system software into working condition. He then gives the poor resident a bid for the computer; the resident is rewarded for his enterprise with a few bucks.
The notion of the two of them "stealing" cellphones and laptops while they charge and their owners order their vente lattes is as risible as K & M stealing babies from carriages while their mothers read The Weekly Dig.
Unfortunately for K & M, the moron who published this libel is a self-proclaimed homeless person himself, unlikely to be worth a nickel in a libel action in court. Perhaps he could sell the Blackberry 8530 that he surreptitiously clicked on November 14 at 2:36:08 PM - and give them the proceeds. Or, instead of the self-pity he displays in his erratic blog, he might to try a little of the selfless enterprise that has made M & K such respected figures in the Central Square community. Poor people have enough problems without the malice of other poor people.