I also lost my phone on August 1, 2006.This was how it happens, i was in a cafe browsing and i placed my phone on the table after receiving a call from my mum. then my attention was drawn to assist someone, to my suprise before i know it, my phone was gone. immediately i try my number and behold it was switched off. i was almost down, i just need to be myself again condering how i kabour to get the phone.so pls be careful with your mobile phone,

well i'm lucky i've never loss my phone,
my uncle lost his phone last month at mile2 around 5p.m, he said he was coming down the bridge, there was no traffic per say, all of a sudden two guys from nowhere entered his car and took away his phone, that he tried to chase them, but those people dat called themselves LASTMA said he should not, that they are with guns.
Can u imagine that means they know people that are doing it and if possible they are one of them (LASTMA).
NA WA 4 NAIJA OOOOOOOO
ESPECIALLY LAGOS AND THAT MILE 2

these stories are really sad, yet very funny! pls keep em coming people  i hope i never lose my phone. id just die because i cant do without it. its my baby! i almost got mugged though on my last trip to naija. and its true that they use distraction to steal the phone from you. oh well

Twice, I have lost my fone. D very first time was immediately gsm came to Nigeria. I lost it in Port Harcourt and d taxi man took it to Oluobasanjo road police station in Port. The police man told me they had to chase armed robbers (ha ha ha) and shoot at them, so I had to part with 5k (ole) and I did. The second time too in a cab. I had to carter another cab and hunt the cab driver all over making several calls to him but he gave me easy and I only rewarded him with N200 which was all I had left after d ordel. It is not a good thing sha, becos of no.s in the fone and stuff

which is better, loosing ur fone? having it stolen? or throwing it onto the field cos ur darling team was getting their ass whooped by the opponents? NY GIANTS ALL THE WAY!

I feel sad when I recollect how my phone was [b]"collected" [/b]by two young guys riding a motorcycle. They simply asked "Bros wetin dey" and before I realised what was happening, one gave me a dirty slap. Before I realised what was happening, they have cleaned out my pockets. I had to beg for my ID card which they threw on the floor and sped off. Bad experience
Thank God I've gotten a better phone now. A birthday gift from someone who care

ooooooohhh, they slapped you? man, that was cruel. those guys should pray they never come across you again, else im sure you going to give them a beating! i would

Wow! Did not know that stealing phones is such a major issue in Niger. So, it seems like people even get robbed for their mobiles. When I was there last year, the only time people saw my phone was when I was using it anyway. I know not to walk around in Lagos like we do here with the phone in a case on my waist. They give phones away here, so people do not really go out tosteal those things. A lot of times when people lose their phone it's even returned to them by the person that found it. Until they start to blacklist phones in Nigeria, stealing of phones will be a major problem.

Wow!
These stories are funny yet not funny!
I have never had my phone stolen or lost and i have prophesied into that phone that i would never have it stolen!!! Amen!!

Nevertheless, my brothers have had theirs stolen like twice each and the most recent one is so pathetic.

My parents were just relaxing outside our bungalow in the evening, there was power failure. Before they knew what was happening, someone stretched his hands from outside and opened the gates, the padlock was not locked. Two of them walked up to my folks, pointed guns at them and firstly collected their phones there. They then marched them in and ordered other members of the house to submit theirs too. In all they carted away seven solid phones. I wasn't around them. The one that pained of most was my cousin who just arrived at our house to spend sometime with us ended up loosing hers too!

Amen, brotha! neither has mine ever been stolen. i pray it never does 

hayprof:

Hmmmm Incredible, This Stories are far more than 'A Bitter Experience'
I avnt had my phone stolen and I pray it wont! Did I hear an Amen?

[b]phone lost? not my case but i did loss all contacts on my phone when i had to flash my phone because of one yeye virus called caribe, it almost made me cry.[/b]Fellas you need to see me then, mo dode big boi cry!

My phone has never been stolen before,but i lost my last phone in the subway once,  twas sometime last year  and i was rushing to get on the train as i opened my bag to get  out my train pass my phone fell out of my bag.

didn't realize this , twas later when i got to work that i found out . so i called my own cell phone and an MTA worker who was working where it dropped pick up ma phone and told me to come pick up my phone which i later did.

ikamefa you are a lucky, good samaritan se?

ikamefa:

My phone has never been stolen before,but i lost my last phone in the subway once, twas sometime last year and i was rushing to get on the train as i opened my bag to get out my train pass my phone fell out of my bag.

didn't realize this , twas later when i got to work that i found out . so i called my own cell phone and an MTA worker who was working where it dropped pick up ma phone and told me to come pick up my phone which i later did.

yes oh !, and i have also returned like up to three phones this year to people who either absent mindedly or forgetfully lost their phones. As the saying goes do unto others----------------------------------->
abi? " "

Actually I don't wanna talk about this, but since everyone is feeling cool about it, ok lets tell a sad story with a smile.

I lost my phone one bad evening when I was having my usual evening walk, I was just feeling
cool with my little machine, feeling cool selecting my best mp3 songs when I a guy from noway launched a missile like bomb slap on my eyes. I dropped my phone with a painful cry, and that was the end of my beautiful phone. But I've gotten another bether phone now,is a good 3G multimedia phone that can do almost everything like a pc

hmm. when did it become the in-thing to slap someone and fap their phone? thats just cruel. o ma se o (a pity).

well having gone through different people's experience i could not help but laugh,though some are bitter but na wetin man go do life must go on.
i have been quite lucky because my phone has never been stolen or missing but i will share a friend's bitter story with you
It was on a hot afternoon after lecures,she decided to treat herself with some nice stuffs,so she took this taxi(not lagos o) which had already carried two passengers at the back seat.so as they going o that was how one okada man came and spitted on her meeeeeeeeeen it was bad not just an ordinary spit o,its got phlem inside and while my innocent friend was busy trying to clean the shit off her the phone grew wings and flew out of her bag but she dnt realize until she got to where she was going and guess what?
she called immeditely and a girl picked it telling her to go to hell because the phone(D700)now belongs ole!!!!!!!!!!!!!

whaaaaaaaaaaat? for real?   omigod, how annoying and embarrasing. not even the stealing the phone part, the spitting! just gross!! i cant even stand my own spit much less that of a stranger. i swear ehn, if i ever catch someone that did that to me, we go enter the same trouser that day.   

so spitting is the new thing now. i feel for your friend really

This is really a wonderful thread! Amazingly a frined is just telling me now he lost his won fone.

I have lost my fone twice and both look like the same manner. They all took place in a danfo bus.

One the two occassions, I was sandwished between some guys and never knew how they were able to do it.

Just got down to discover that my fone has been fapped! The second one was in December last year. Had to stay several months without fones.

I had a very bad experince.
It was not a funny one but all my friends thought it was. It was 2:30pm and i was coming out of the classroom were i went ot read and on my way home i was stopped by a guy who had somthing in his hand that looked like a gun, and the chicken i was at the sight of that made me give in to all his demands, he took my fone and N200 that was with me.
the annoying part of the whole thing was that as he was running away he threw the thing he was holding away, only for me to get to position were the stuff fell to dicorver that it the bone of a chiken (proberbly Mr BIGGS chiken) that was used to threating me.

infinty:

I had a very bad experince.
It was not a funny one but all my friends thought it was. It was 2:30pm and i was coming out of the classroom were i went ot read and on my way home i was stopped by a guy who had somthing in his hand that looked like a gun, and the chicken i was at the sight of that made me give in to all his demands, he took my phone and N200 that was with me.
the annoying part of the whole thing was that as he was running away he threw the thing he was holding away, only for me to get to position were the stuff fell to dicorver that it the bone of a chiken (proberbly Mr BIGGS chiken) that was used to threating me.

Ur own funny gan o. They use chicken steal fone of chicken . U too fear. Anyway my fone has not been stolen before. The thief wey go still from me, they never born am. What only happened to my fone is the work of a genius in the making. I put my 45k phone in a microwave at high temperature and cooked it. The phone that I thot was metallic became over distorted. I was able to study the effect of microwave on phones , Men, the thing pain me o, na stupidity of the highest order. I never get phone for like a month now. The water wey I think say go dry, then I was stupid, for don dry by now if I had waited. Ode ni mi nigba yen o Well sha, u na fit donate to my account for the 50k fone I have my eyes on now, I promise I won't put it in oven this time, I would try the sun instead.

I feel so bad because my neighbour phone that he bought less than 3 weeks back 4 over 30k was collected this evening

Don mayor! How u sef go put ur phone for microwave? Choi!

donmayor:

your own funny gan o. They use chicken steal phone of chicken . U too fear. Anyway my phone has not been stolen before. The thief wey go still from me, they never born am. What only happened to my phone is the work of a genius in the making. I put my 45k phone in a microwave at high temperature and cooked it. The phone that I thot was metallic became over distorted. I was able to study the effect of microwave on phones , Men, the thing pain me o, na stupidity of the highest order. I never get phone for like a month now. The water wey I think say go dry, then I was stupid, for don dry by now if I had waited. Ode ni mi nigba yen o Well sha, u na fit donate to my account for the 50k phone I have my eyes on now, I promise I won't put it in oven this time, I would try the sun instead.

How on earth can you do that?

beats me he mustve been high on ganja

soulpatrol:

beats me he mustve been high on ganja

soulpatrol:

beats me he mustve been high on ganja

Na you give me the ganja? It was just a brain wave. I heard Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein had those sort of brain waves. I guess i would soon enter history books as one of the greatest inventors of our time

@ donmayor. im just throwing jabs at you, but seriously, how you gon cook your phone in the microwave?
like c'mon now, a brain wave? whats that? more like brain madness you get money to waste o. if i be your mama, i for spank you well

Men my mama no hear o. I just tell am say the motherboard get fault and they talk say na irrepairable but i never buy new fone sha, they don wicked me for house. my saving grace na my ipod, hope i no go cook that one too

them suppose tie you to a tree, leave you there overnight, make you learn your lesson. and you can always dash me that ipod is it the original, nano or mini? i go take am