to phone boys mum re ds 'lost the found' mobile phone?

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Ds left his phone in a classroom, was locked later when he realised an was unable to retrieve it.

Later that evening a kid he knows from school phones to say he found it in the street outside the school, but the SIM card is missing. We find out the next day when he gets it back that the SIM card but also the back of the phone is missing. (last year was good friends but they are no longer friends, possible quite a lot of animosity there but he doesn't talk about it. Most of ds former friends seem to be mates with this other boy)

Anyway it keeps coming back to me, that it doesn't really add up. 1300 kids go to that school, so I find it an amazing coincidence that it is this boy out of hundreds that's found it. ALso, that re recognises it to be my ds's phone. And if it was found in the street, it's surprising it's not scratched or scuffed at all.

I doubt the school would or could do anything, so AIBU to phone this kid's mum? I've said hello to her a few times, but that's all.

YABU really

You can't prove a thing...therefore what would it achieve?

Also, I'm sure she'll remind you of the fact her son didn't have to give him the phone at all.

If all it needs now is a new sim and back cover, that's got to be better than needing a whole new phone.

It does look very suspicious but as I say, you can't prove anything.

Hmm, think about it the other way around, no matter how you word it, she will know you are accusing her son of being responsible. If he is responsible why would he tell him he had found it? In light of the lack of evidence I'd be inclined to chalk it up to experience. If you did have evidence them I'd suggest contacting the school/police.

Could be he knew that your ds's phone was missing and guessed it. More likely one of his friends gave it to him. I'd have thought if he had taking it himself he was unlikely to return it.

Thanks, well, I guess I was going to ask the mum if she could ask specifically where exactly he had found it, so we could go and look to see if the back cover was lying in bushes nearby, that sort of thing.and I guess ask her if she could ask him about it. But yes, I don't have any proof, but it seems too dodgy to me :(

Maybe your ds could ask him where it was found?

That's true, that was another thought, that another kid had taken it either as a hilarious joke or with a view to actually stealing it and they got cold feet or whatever, that's why I wanted his to mum to ask him about it so see if she could unravel it. I'm not saying I think he took it, but I think he's involved somehow. fwiw, when they were friends, I always thought he was really lovely, if a bit cocky. He was always polite and friendly and sweet with ds little siblings. Shame they are no longer friends. So I think he is a good kid at heart, hence maybe him being the one who returned it, but maybe he knows who took it?

OK; I guess I'll never know and just have to move on. Feel sad that maybe ds is victim of deliberate 'prank' against him, rather it being random bad luck consequence of his dopiness, which I suppose it still could be.

how/where do you get a replacement back cover from?

Get the sim cancelled (or whatever it is you do to stop it being used).

You can't prove anything now, and you still may not be able to prove it when the sim is used maliciously by this other boy.

If they were such good friends could this be some misguided attempt to get your DS to 'like' him again? As in - look I've found your phone, it's not all there but I have noticed it's yours and returned it.