I think I may be but.....

[angrymomma]

I really hope the tosser who walked off with Ds's Ipod dies a slow extremely painful death as he has been inconsolable all day

I suspect if Apple (or any insurance provider in fact) heard that it fell out of the window then got stolen they'd think 'pull the other one- its got bells on it'

I think yes I would have replaced it, or tried to get it mended, if it had just been thrown out of the window. It wasn't DS1s fault so why should he suffer? I just cannot afford to shell out for a completely new one.

Have heard so many other complaints about Apple, mainly because of the fact that they could block a stolen Ipod, Ipad, etc, if you give them the serial No. But they won't do it. Purely, I think, because they just think well whoever has it now, stolen or not, will still have to pay them to download apps and music and stuff. They don't care where the money comes from as long as they get it.

Also, what really pisses me off is the fact that if it did sustain damage when it fell, what is the point in taking it. It was lying in our front garden. Surely if they had any intention of finding the owner, ours would have been the first house to try?

Are you absolutely sure your ds2 didn't just throw the cover out the window and the phone isn't somewhere in the room?

Not sure what you expected Apple to do tbh - although phones can be blocked so that they don't work IPODs can't.

No, MUM, we have turned the room upside down looking for it. I just wish there was some way to track it, like a phone where you can ring it up!

But that's just it Penguin. If I give Apple the serial No they could stop the user buying stuff from Itunes. Even that would be something.

We have informed the police, but they are really not interested, as we suspected.
We have also contacted neighbours but no luck.

Think we are just going to have to accept that there are a lot of heartless greedy folk out there and our trust in others has lowered somewhat.

I would keep looking, your DS2 could have "posted" it anywhere in the house - can you show him a photo of the ipod and ask him to find it?

I say look again a bit harder. I can't see someone taking the cover off right there and then

Poor DS. Really angry for you. Why don't you try all your neighbours to see who that couple were visiting?

Oh, and Apple's customer service is notoriously shit. I am still awaiting acknowledgement of a complaint I sent 8 months ago. When I told this to DH (a long-term Mac user), he just laughed. So don't hold out much hope.

It seem so far-fetched that the iPod with protective cover was thrown out of the window of your house on a quiet cul de sac then within 30 seconds was found, removed from the protective cover and made off with. Agree with CarGirl that it might well turn up somewhere and that DS2 may have just thrown the cover out.

But you don't need the serial number to access I-Tunes, all you need is a laptop/PC with I-Tunes software on. You can then put your bought stuff onto a CD and then upload the CD onto the IPOD.

Also, if someone found it, why would they discard the protective cover?? Doesn't make sense.

We lost one of those kiddizone cameras for weeks it was down the headboard of an unused bed!

My DS1 accidentally dropped a bright orange toy car into someones front garden. I saw it fall over the wall (he was driving it along their wall). I knocked and asked the person who lived there if I could retrieve it. We looked in that small front garden for about 10 minutes but just could not find it. It was winter, so the shrubs etc were bare leaved, and the toy was bright orange.

If it's fallen from the upstairs window it could have bounced a considerable distance and just be hiding somewhere.

You may yet find it in a totally unexpected place: I lost my precious engagement ring one day and when my DD next brought my DGD to visit I asked them if they could think of anywhere else I could look (DGD aged 3), DGD immediately went to a vase of flowers which had been there since their previous visit and said "It's in there". It was! She had picked it up from the side of the sink and dropped it in. She could not explain her thinking of course and it has baffled me ever since.

YABU. All things in proportion. Do you really standby this statement?

Id also be watching your 3 year old access to open windows....my neighbours child was seen on the porch roof last week having climbed out of his bedroom window, he is also 3, thank f@#k he was seen befor he fell

How far is your house from the path (i.e public highway)? If its anything more than a couple of feet, that's some throw your 3yo has. Maybe he has hidden it in another room?

It's completely misguided to be angry with Apple or with the person who may have taken the ipod. This is your fault. You failed to supervise your DS2, or to teach him not to throw things out of windows, and as a result he has caused the loss of your older DS' most treasured possession.

Sorry, but I grew up with a younger sibling who stole and destroyed many of my things, with an unerring skill for finding the items most precious to me, and my parents did naff all about it. It still makes me angry.

Actually yes I do stand by this statement. I know how ludicrous it all sounds, even to me, but as it actually happened it wasn't, IYSWIM. As for them having to remove the protective case, they wouldn't have to , it was constantly falling off. It cost me £15.00 and was bloody useless.
Keep asking DS2 about it but no clues forthcoming. All we can see is that it, and the cover, went out the window. Even if it bounced we would have seen it. This is a quiet street with no trees, hedges cars etc. So it would have been plain for all to see.

But no one actually saw DS2 through it out of the window???

My DC3 is also 3 and I can hand on heart say it wouldn't occur to him to do that, take it... yes, have a play with it.... yes, hide it to avoid discovery.... yes, but throw it out of a window????

Febreeze, your DC sounds like my DD. She is a year older than DS2 but would never ever consider throwing something out of a window.

But then we come to DS2. He throws everything, at everybody, and everything. He throws dummies, TV remote controls. stones, balls over fences, bottles, drinks, foos, anything basically.

I have lost patience with him, but EX H just thinks he is 'a baby'. He isn't a baby anymore and he has to learn consequences.

ATM EX H is mad with me because next week I am taking DS1 and DD to cinema, swimming and a park/ picnic without DS2. As I see it this is his punishment. EX H thinks I am wrong, but I think DS2 has to learn.