Village Phone

The reading "Village Phone" was quite a story to read.  While I was reading it, I was thinking about 5 different aspects that were included in the story.  These aspects include morals, social media, forgiveness, group action, and police.  To start out with morals, they said it right in the reading.  If you find a ten dollar bill on the ground, you think "finders keepers, losers weepers" but when you find a 300$ dollar phone and you have contact information to find out whose phone it is, return it.  It is not yours to keep.  Be a good person and return it to the right person.  The second one is social media.  When Evan first found out who had it, he went straight to the media to tell other people what had happened.  He made a website, a bulletin board (actually three which all failed cause of the traffic going to the board), and even was shown on Digg.com.  Countless people go on Digg a day and with enough views, people will spread the word and try to help someone out.  Forgiveness is the third one.  Evan eventually got his phone back and Sasha, the girl who took it, was arrested.  When it came time around to press charges, he decided not to because he got his phone back.  If he would have pressed charges, he could have really screwed up that girls life for good.  He decided to be the bigger person.  Fourth, group action.  When started the website and it was posted on Digg, he was getting ten emails A MINUTE!  That is a whole lot of emails.  People were spreading the word, probably by other different means of media, to try to help some person, most who have never met, find a phone that belonged to them.  Lastly, the police are terrible.  When he reported the phone, they put it under "lost" and not "stolen".  How could they do that?  Phone records show that it is his phone, that Sasha didn't buy it, and other common sense ideas.  That is why the police should not be handled with all situations.