Busboy pulls a Paris Hilton on Jimmy Buffett
posted Jun 10th 2005 9:30AM
So the meat of this story is that some busboy lifted Jimmy Buffett's cellphone when he left it on the table at a restaurant, and basically proceeded to hold it hostage while rifling through his contacts. Looks like ol' Jim's been hangin' tight with the likes of Bill Clinton (who would probably have preferred to turn up in Paris Hilton's address book), Al Gore and… George Clooney? Must have been some raging party. Anywho, the Palm Beach Post's Jose Lambiet gets a little sloppy on the tech, confusing a "memory chip" with a SIM card and an "Ericsson" with a Sony Ericsson but hey, who's counting. Oh, and the kid? Busboy Jason Martin had a visit from a Secret Service agent which prompted him to finally return the phone, though sans SIM card, which nevertheless apparently got him off the hook with the authorities. Do they not realize how these things work?
So to sum up, the feds were smart enough to find the phone (via it's IMEI id I suppose ?) - but then forgot to check if the sim card was in there ?
ROTFLMAO :p Seems pretty typical though :D
I am glad that this wasn't a report about a busboy taping himself have sex w/ Jimmy Buffett.
"Do they not realize how these things work?"
Nope. We have absolutely no clue.
Ok, but now that they know they "missed" the SIM card, they can go back and arrest the busboy. There's no double-jeopardy to stop them yet.
A SIM card is a memory card. How do you think it stores the phone numbers?
The feds must use Verizon (or Sprint for that matter). It funny how may customers don’t know what a SIM Card is.
Actually, the Sony Ericsson's store the phone book data in the phone's own flash memory by default (or at least, my T310 did). You have to force it to save the data on the SIM card... which is why I had to dig out the manual when I changed to a newer Motorolla, as when I put my old SIM card in the new phone, it appeared to be blank.
what kind of phone? the full article says "$500 phone". the pictured Sony Ericsson T226 is more like $50! lol
I bet the Feds will find that SIM card on eBay.