Tale of a Lost Cellphone, and Untold Static

A man's quest to retrieve a friend's lost cellphone ended with a teen's arrest in Queens and her humiliation on the Internet. A long story from The New York Times.

"It was a dark and stormy night when Mr. Guttman's best friend Ivanna left her cellphone in a taxicab, like thousands of others before her. After Ivanna got a new Sidekick, she logged on to her account — and was confronted by pictures of an unfamiliar young woman and her family, along with the young woman's America Online screen name. ..."

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