The manager at the gym is correct not giving you member addresses or camera footage. All of their members you included have a right to privacy. Go to the police and they may stress may be able to help

Investigating a suspect is a breach of privacy? I’m not familiar with the law but I wouldn’t want to against it. And, thanks for the tip! I’ll follow up with the police again

This has to be a shitpost. No way this shit is real

Oh I'm sure they'll get right on it.

"Hold on, Whitey Bulger. We have a missing pair of airpods to,focus on. We'll get back to you."

Think about the cost benefit/opportunity cost of pursuing this. Sometimes in life you’ve got to eat the loss and simply move on.

Nope

You lost your AirPods. Yes, some loser then took them but the initial act is on you. Sorry. Truth hurts. Stop placing the blame on the manager and buy new AirPods

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Just take this as $100 lost and a lesson learned. The police don’t care.

“A week without my AirPods has been tough”. -Maybe this will be good for you, then. You sound like you live a padded life.

I’m still using wired headphones son. My life isn’t any tougher for it

According to OP, they would have shown him the footage before he filed a police report.

Tell the police the address they were pinging from and then ask the police to ask the gym which members live at that addy.

Yeah that’s right.

Is this post real? Lol

Its $250 dollars lost. What hurts is I can see the street address of the guy who stole it and can’t do nothing about it

Why not ask for him and talk to him about it yourself? Since you’re so upset and think you can’t do anything about it.

The cops will never waste their time on this

I apologize the SWAT team wasn't available to bust down the door of the perp.

I think Dog the Bounty Hunter is still active, give him a shout.

What if this is part of a larger pattern of thefts. Moreover, since the address is already known, they dont even have to investigate much.

Yeah but I have filed a police complaint too. Very unlikely I could be lying. And honestly, if the manager was interested in knowing who has stolen my airpods, she would have probably gone thru the database. They have camera footage too, what good is it when you don’t even use it

I went to that address but it’s an apartment complex and has many houses. I don’t know which one he lives on

The thing that’s shitty is that I lost my AirPods

Call Judge Judy!

Lol not sure if this post is real. Anyway, in the U.S., the police typically don't investigate or try to solve small-scale theft like this, such as thefts under $1,000.

If you see how many stolen bike posts there are on this Sub and how few are solved by police, you'll know what I mean.

But Protip: If you have Renter's or Homeowner's Insurance you can likely file a theft claim and get your money back to buy new AirPods!

Thanks for that insight! And damn, I should look into the renters insurance thingy, but the AirPods were stolen from the gym, so not sure if that would be applicable to me

Ok Mr police commissioner

Is the A-Team still available?

Don’t worry, no need for SWAT lol

Or that’s just what the gym manager told them to get OP off their back

I can’t confirm if it’s on me or on the thief. I don’t know if they stole it from my pocket or they found them somewhere

If you call her, let her know that boston police isn’t helping with a case of missing / stolen AirPods

You should really call her.

No

Yes.

Go to find my iphone and see where they last were...

Please edit: “in the US police typically don’t investigate or try to solve any crimes.”

Is this a joke? Are you joking?

I think this is a real post, looking at his post history. Student at north eastern from India.

you should hire a team of private investigators and really get to the bottom of this thing! maybe do a stake out outside the apartment building and look for people that look like they might be going to the gym and stop each one to see if they have your earbuds.

im kiddng. you lost your shitty earbuds. get over it you idiot.

haha the only hope u have is that hopefully you'll let this go, lick ur wounds and move on.

I lost my passport on the 66 bus with an airpod connected to it, they were in the MBTA building, and then a worker or someone else stole it. police did not give a single fuck. Why would they care about a pair of AirPods if they didn’t care about someone stealing a piece of identification like that? I just reported it stolen and am getting a new passport 🤷🏼‍♂️

If you had renters insurance unless you paid for a low deductible plan it wouldn’t have been worth your time. I pay for a low deductible, high value plan just in case I get robbed or something. But a lot of plans have a $500 deductible. And a lot of terms and conditions.

The police don’t care about your AirPods. The manager probably cared for a second, but the way you handled it, most likely annoyed them to the point that they have no interest in helping you find them. A private company isn’t going to expose the personal information of its clients to another private citizen; that’s a massive liability issue. Doing so would leave them open to being sued. You pressing the issue, and making ridiculous requests that most people would understand aren’t reasonable, is only compounding the issue.

Had you dealt with this differently, the manager probably would have reviewed the video. If they found anything, they’d most likely have worked with you on filing the police report. All you’ve done by approaching things as aggressively as you have, is convince the manager to not act proactively or cooperate with you. If they provided confirmation along with evidence of a particular suspect as part of your effort to file a report, the police would follow through.

Right now, your report’s details mean the police have to investigate to obtain evidence—it’s incomplete, in that sense. Those are man-hours that don’t always yield results, and not worth the cost of doing so for the item in question—especially because it’s not clear that a crime even occurred, or if you lost the item. If your report included confirmation that reliable evidence existed that:

1). a crime occurred

2). the suspect has been identified

3). who to contact to retrieve said evidence

then they’d have Probable Cause (minimum requirement to make an arrest) *and *a suspect. Because Felony Larceny starts at a value of greater or equal to $250, they’d definitely get your item back, and make an arrest. That manager was the one person you shouldn’t have alienated—corporations have strict rules regarding communication with law enforcement in these situations, which means it’s a headache for her to help you. She had to WANT to help you, to not mind going through that.

And to be honest, she was right to not share anything with you. You said you saw an address, AND WENT TO THE LOCATION. Thank God you didn’t have the apartment number. That’s the exact kind of thing she was trying to prevent—that business doesn’t want to be responsible for the possible outcome of someone making such an idiotic decision, and she doesn’t want to lose her job.

If losing something that, by design, is easy to lose bothers you this much…maybe you shouldn’t own it in the first place. They’re just AirPods, guy. Life gets way harder.

TL; DR

Knowing what information police need to see in a police report for smaller crimes, can greatly increase the chances they follow through. If you collect evidence to reach the minimum threshold for an arrest and include that information when you file, you’ve removed the financial demotivation for them to act, by eliminating investigative costs. If you need the help of others to make that happen, be tactful and act with intent when discussing their cooperation. Make requests, not demands.

And for chrissakes, don’t go looking for suspected criminals at their homes without the police involved.

Leads? Yeah, I’ll just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They got 4 more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!

Yeah that sucks to have the passport stolen!

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This is too far down.

Yeah it’s a low deductible one. I’m not counting on them tbh

Yea

I’ll take a red line wait time bitching post over this nonsense any day… please.

I'm impressed you've made it a week without your airpods. Have you tried prayer? Maybe the right prayer will bring them back...

Lmao

Lol what? Either you left them somewhere (unfortunate) or you should be more self aware enough to know if someone’s hand is in your pocket..

Gf been praying but I should do too

You clearly have not lost stuff by a pickpocket. I hope you never do but watch some videos on YouTube. You can’t always know. https://youtu.be/LoUSO_Mj1TQ

I have already done detectives job in tracking the guy down. They just need to go get the airpods from him

Yea I’ll give it one last shot and let it go eventually

Yeah I have their address. I have added it in my post

Sorry OP. Probably going to have to take an L on this one. I was involved in a car accident awhile ago ($10k plus in damages), police came to the scene and took everyone’s info. The party responsible for the crash has gone MIA ever since so neither I nor my insurance company was able to get a cent from them. There’s zero chance they’ll take interest in your AirPods…

Lol pick pocketing is not a thing in Boston as far as I’m concerned

You should buy new airpods. The police have bigger fish to fry.

Amazing reference

Yeah.. our city isn’t really plagued by professional pit pockets.. don’t be so aloof and keep your hands in your pockets if you’re so nervous

And if they were a professional.. i imagine they’d avoid doing it in an area with cameras all over…

Uhhhh did you file a police complaint against them before you asked for their help? Not sure where you got the idea that you have the right to get that information from the gym. Did someone steal them from you? Or did you misplace them? Big difference. And no, I doubt the police will help you retrieve your lost airpods.

https://youtu.be/v7acD4q0lp0

Life is good, but it can be better!

have you talked to an attorney?

Hm.. thank you for taking the time to write this down. It was a ridiculous request on my part for sure. I missed mentioning this before in the post but the manager did go thru the video but the cameras are at an angle and she seees me putting the airpods down but when I pick up stuff from the treadmill, she can’t tell if I picked the airpods or not.

I would not want the person to face the harsh consequences for doing what they did. I wouldn’t want to press charges, even if I could.

And, it does bother me in a healthy way. I might be going a bit far but yea, my friends and my brother have been helping too and they accompanied me to the persons address too.

But you’re right, i will follow up with the police once, if they entertain my request, then great, otherwise I’ll halt my investigations lol

Sure it isn’t tougher for it. I just got used to my airpods and liked them

Will do, Thank you!

Wow! I hope you’re alright! And it sucks that you ( and your insurance company) couldn’t recover any money from them!

Fair enough

Nah. I just paid my deductible and went on with life. I’m sure I could have but I have a pretty low deductible so it’s whatever.

Edit: since the insurance company wasn’t able to track them down, the claim went to collections

I had my car broken into and various items stolen when I was in college.

There were fingerprints where the window broke, some blood on the door from a cut, a camera facing my car from the store I parked in front of.

Nobody fucking cared about my car. This is the world we live in, it's just property, make a homeowners claim or replace them.

I think you should hire a private detective, someone who isn’t bound by the limits of a cop working within the system. Like a John Shaft

You need to call Channel 5, get ‘Team 5 Investigates’ on the case

I had a ~$2000 bike stolen off the street locked up. I filed a report just to cover my ass, even though it was obvious that the cops couldn’t have given less of a shit about it. I ended up tracking it down on FB marketplace and took the bike back myself. But I don’t feel like a pair of AirPods are worth even worrying about—just get another pair, maybe some cheap knockoffs this time.

>The manager of the gym said they wont show me the camera footage because I have filed a police complaint and they will only show it to the police if they ask for it.

I would be pissed if they allowed some nobody to watch camera footage of the gym.

>I asked the manager to search their database by address for users who came to the gym at that hour on that day when I lost my AirPods. The manager refused. It seems like she doesn’t want to help me at all. Very bad person.

I would be even more pissed if they revealed my PII to some random claiming they lost something.

Anyone can file a police report about anything. It is literally just a paper form.

LOL. You're not getting them back. Nobody cares about shit like this, at all. This would be a complete waste of time and resources if anyone did anything, which they can't.

"A week without my airpods has been tough", are you kidding?

It sounds like something you’d see posted on Nextdoor, lol

OP you ok?

Ye im good thanks. Hope the same for you!

You never know. I might, I might not. I’m just trying and will eventually move on

I would be totally fine if they didn’t show me the camera footage and atleast watched it themselves to find out who picked the AirPods.

Damn.. hearing these stories im losing hope lol

Yea I filed the police complaint first cuz the manager was not at the gym the day I lost my AirPods. Yeah, its fine if i don’t get them back. I’m just trying what I can

That’s great. But looking at the comments I seriously doubt the professionals would be budged by the cameras. People are so ok with losing their shit and just letting it go

Gym thefts are so unbelievably common. With the shortage of cops only getting worse, don’t expect anything to actually happen. Sucks it happened.

I don’t know what to tell you. Your AirPods are gone and the police don’t gaf. Write a letter to the AG instead of complaining to Reddit if you feel so inclined.

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Generally agree but FYI felony larceny in MA is now over $1200

I was hoping to find if someone was in this situation and was successfully able to retrieve their AirPods. But looks like that’s not it

That must have just happened.

…this inflation is a bitch.

Edit: nvm, it was increased in 2018. Tbf, it’s been awhile since I completed my undergrad.

Judging by the fact that you’re arguing with literally everyone who has commented.. I doubt that’s the case (anymore)

The pattern is everything that gets left unattended at every planet fitness is gone forever, its a grand conspiracy.

I'm thinking John Wick. May as well go all out to get the airpods back

does he have a song too?

The police are not going to investigate your $250 or less airpods. You have find my iPhone for that. It's your personal responsibility to take care of your own stuff. It's definitely not some part of a bigger thing. No one is stealing airpods with your dirty earwax and re-selling them. If they're newer airpods then they have the ability to be seen where their battery went dead. If they are older than the newest ones, you are talking $50-100 resale value.

You'll pay $250 deductible to get the air pods back from renters insurance. So just go buy a new pair

OP, I agree with everyone else posting here, but just FYI something very similar happened to me…someone mistakenly took my jacket instead of their own from a bar, and so they accidentally took my AirPods home with them. I also could see their address, which was also in a big apartment building. I had confidence that it was a drunken mistake and that the person would return my jacket to the bar, which they did a few days later. I had reported it to the bar, so they knew to call me, and I went and got my jacket and AirPods. Just wanted to give you a positive story.

You and the gym shouldn't be investigating anyone. You're not a detective. It sucks but move on and be careful with the next pair.

Lol alright

Yeah they’re the latest airpods and I can see the last location where their battery went dead.

You’re not getting them back. There is absolutely 0% chance the police intervene. And, the gym was right not to give you member data or show you the video footage.

Look OP, you're clearly a bit out of touch for a number of reason (thinking the police would do anything, posting it on reddit, etc). But here's some practical advice: do NOT show up at someone's residence over petty theft. That's just asking for trouble. There are lots of wireless buds that are much cheaper than airpods, you'll be fine.

Good luck! I think your best bet would be to try and get them back from whoever found them. Maybe leave a note at the apartment building, just make sure not to accuse someone of stealing them, or they won't want to return them obviously. Something nice, maybe a reward for finding them?

This is a great idea, thank you!

Unfortunately cops are useless

Yea, you let it go.

First, you figure out how this happened, like what mistake you made that let something you care about so much out of your sight for so long. Did you trust a locker, did you not check your pockets, et cetera, then don’t make this mistake again.

Shit happens, but you are safe and your property is replaceable. Here’s a secret about thieving if you didn’t know: it’s a crime of opportunity. Button your shit down and it won’t happen to you.

>Leads? Yeah, I’ll just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They got 4 more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!

Since it's a Planet Fitness why didn't the gym manager sound the Lunk Alarm and frisk everyone to see who had the earphones?!?

I wouldn’t hold out much hope for the tape deck though

In a day where police departments are so short staffed and overloaded with work, you think they will stop all they are working on to focus on finding your AirPods!? It’s really that important to you, go hire a private detective to locate it for you. The cheapest alternative might be to chalk this up in the L column and buy some new ones.

The Find My app doesn’t work? A couple of weeks ago, my Ipad and Airpods starting sending messages to my phone if I even left them in my car.

Go back to the gym at the same time, see if your device pairs with them, them blow up the volume

This isn’t even worthy of its own Reddit thread let alone police assistance for lost (not even stolen) AirPods

Or the Creedence

>The manager refused. It seems like she doesn’t want to help me at all. Very bad person.

No. She is a good person. She doesn't want to violate the privacy of all of her valuable clients all because you lost something. The reality is that you don't know if it's a theft, any variety of things could have happened accidentally by someone. Someone could have picked them up in error thinking they were theirs and now they've ditched them in the stairwell of an apartment complex. Move on, the world does not revolve around you.

This is satire correct?

Did you lose them or were they stolen? Your comments are not consistent and the difference is very important.

You lost them, get over it

Is it even stolen if you left it behind and someone went over and picked it up?

This is a HoF post. Love that it is serious.

Jesus christ guy, eat makes you think they would give you their customers addresses?

Tip for the future: Get yourself a renters insurance policy. It’s $10-$15 a month. It would cover a theft like this, as well as other property damage, liability, and living expenses if your apartment becomes uninhabitable.

And watch/lock up your valuables at the gym.

I wouldn’t hold out for the Creedence.

Boston cops will not do anything. Guaranteed.

🤣🤣

Bruh I got hit & run in my BMW while I was inside a store and ran up $2300 of damage and they refused to show me the cameras without police so I called the cops and they refused to pursue it even tho it was $2300 and there was surveillance footage. Take the L, they won’t do shit

You sound super privileged, sounds like this person needed them. You should be ashamed

Why don’t you just wait outside his apartment and clock him when he leaves the building. That will teach him. /s

I'd escalate this to the FBI if they police don't act.

You probably should have talked to the manager at the gym first before filing the police report. Did you lose them or do you think they were stolen from you? Either way, it's been a week and now they are dead. You may as well get a new pair because even if the police take the address and go, the person will probably say they don't have them and they aren't going to arrest them over some airpods. Just suck it up and get a new pair and be careful

I would make a “lost AirPods sign” and put it up on the door at the apartment. See if someone feels guilt or gets scared and “ returns the lost item to the gym Worth a shot.

Ay you’re lucky they left the tape deck and the Credence.

That’ll learn em!

The cops can’t pursue this without a search warrant and they aren’t going to get one because in the grand schemes of things this is stupid and your expectation of people is stupid.

Prolly try to make a bat signal and light it up. Batman loves solving this kind of stuff

Let us know when you find them at the bottom of your bag

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That manager isn’t a bad person, he’s just not going to cross a line and impede on other clients privacy because YOU lost your AirPods. You made a mistake and now you have to deal with the consequences. This is no one’s fault but your own,… no fingers to point except at yourself here. SMH, your post screams immaturity. You lost your AirPods, get a new pair or get over it.

man I wish it was a joke. imagine adulting like this. I just can’t.

this!!!

Lololololol the manager is a very bad person for not giving OP the address of each person who went to the gym the day their AirPods were stolen? Is this even real? You’re not entitled to personal information of each person that went somewhere the day your shit was stolen. I want to feel bad that your AirPods were stolen but when you’re acting like you’re entitled to the personal information of anyone who happened to be there that day you make it hard to feel bad for you. I’m sure your attitude isn’t making anything better with the police. Buy some new AirPods and move on. Keep better track of your shit next time.

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Seriously? You lost your airpods and someone grabbed them. It's not like they broke into your house or car or something. The cops won't bother with this and they SHOULDN'T. You learned a valuable lesson about not leaving your expensive items behind

The cops don't know what apartment they're in either. Do you really expect them to knock on every door? Do you expect the person who had them is going to admit it and give them back? Do you think any judge would issue a search warrant over this? Take a step back and think this through, i understand it's frustrating but you're trying to use thousands of dollars of city resources to recover your LOST property

You sure did. That really sucks. But it's not a crime.

Did you try dusting for fingerprints?

I thought you said elsewhere that they did review the footage and couldn't see whether you left them or not?

>I asked the manager to search their database by address for users who came to the gym at that hour on that day when I lost my AirPods. The manager refused. It seems like she doesn’t want to help me at all. Very bad person.

You need think to about the privacy of users. Do you really expect the gym manager to do this because somebody just says they lost something? How does she even know that you are telling the truth?

Wonder why what you say is true?

I didn’t realize Bostonians hate the police so much until I posted about the 3 states troopers who all died in one week. I got only 1 single comment.

Just curious as to why??

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I never asked for them to provide me with the addresses of all the people. I asked them to check if the address I provide them exists in their database.

You’re right. My approach was wrong. Thank you for pointing that out

Buy a pair of $7.99 wired earbuds at CVS. They can get stolen (lol)/lost/short out 20 times and you've still spent less replacing them than what you'll spend on new Airpods.

The manager can’t give you names/addresses of other members at the gym. That’s a violation of privacy and they’re definitely not allowed to do that.

It sucks you lost your AirPods but you need to let this one go and just buy a new pair.

Apple care is 30 for AirPods. And does not cover theft.

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“AppleCare+ for Headphones does not cover lost or stolen AirPods”

I wish you were right about the 90 bucks to get new ones if stolen because that would be dope, but I don’t see it anywhere. Just 30 bucks for apple care and 30 bucks to get them replaced from accidental damage

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I believe that is $89 per item, like $89 for each AirPod and $89 for the case. So if you lost it all it would be $89 * 3 = $267, so more than buying them new

Dude, you’ve got to be kidding. This is a joke, right???

Why

“Hello police, My negligence resulted in the loss of a couple hundred dollar item that is my own private property.”

“Oh okay sir, let us spend THOUSANDS of dollars worth of time and energy and manpower and the opportunity cost of solving more important crimes in a BIG CITY to help you retrieve an item that you left behind.”

Read that? Does that sound right to you?

It’s hardly worth the police’s time to pick up the paper to file this report. Maybe if you were in one of the richest zip codes in the country and had a couple friends who said they also had airpods stolen in that location then the cops would help. Otherwise, understand that your low value private property is not a good way to spend public resources’ time in retrieving. Sorry, but that’s reality.

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An office I worked in had 8 laptops stolen. The thief broke a password on one and ordered a bunch of physical gift cards for restaurants through our company Amazon account. He entered his real name and mailing address. Oh, and we had security cam footage of his face.

So, thousands in company property stolen, thousands more on gift cards, the face, name and address of the thief made available. Police did nothing. Nothing at all. We got no computers back.

So, good luck with your AirPods but they are gone. Be more careful in the future.

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cops are rude, insecure, trite, dishonest and belligerent, and they are an organized, government sanctioned gang of people who wield power to kill and punish unethically and without consequence.

Damn, are you joking? You must live in your own bubble

The second I lost my AirPods, I tracked them on my phone. You can track AirPods and you get them to make a really loud noise.

I found them my baby cousin’s toy box. They fell in there when I was cleaning up her toys.

But I guess you have to do it as soon as you notice so the battery doesn’t run out?

This is a dumb question. But do people steal passports for identity theft?