/lit/ - Literature

Went for a walk around the neighborhood. I’ll walk for an hour and listen to music. Today I found an iPhone lying in the middle of the road. I clicked the peripheral buttons and saw text and Outlook and Teams notifications. I was looking for an easy way to contact the owner, but quickly realized that’s not possible on a locked phone; I suppose I could have waited for a phone call, if nothing else. Turns out I didn’t need to wait, b/c the screensaver was a DOJ emblem and a bunch of bureaucratic government legalize and a number to call ‘if found.’ I called the number (SC on the caller ID) and a man answered. I told him the situation, and he asked for the serial number on the back of the phone (there is also $20 behind the transparent case). I asked him: ‘What now,’ and he asked if I knew of a lost and found I could drop the phone off at. I said no, and said I would just hold on to it and they could swing by my apt. when they wanted it back. I powered the phone off before I got back to my apt. b/c I started to get paranoid. I just turned it back on as I was writing this to give the screensaver background a better read, looking for clues, and the phone did a factory reset,