Mother goes on rampage after her iPad is stolen from her car during school pick-up, says it's the school's fault despite her having not locked her car off school premises

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    Lady gets her iPad stolen and decides it should be everyone's problem
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    I work as an administrator in an elementary school, last Monday morning a very agitated coworker came asking for help, apparently someone broke into a mother's car and stole her iPad while she was dropping her kid off.
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    That's really bad! Only I have access to the surveillance footage so of course I agree to help, I only need to know which car it was and where it was parked. We both went out to look for the mom so I can ask her this. She
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    was yelling at a group of teachers, demanding the camera footage and saying she knew this school was horrible and full of thieves. She was so upset she didn't want to talk to me and just left in a rage. I thought that was very understandable tbh. I went over
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    to her kid's teacher to ask exactly how it happened, and then everything turned really awkward: -The mom's car wasn't in our parking lot when it happened, she decided to leave it out on the street so she could "save time" -She left her car unlocked. -The iPad (in a bright pink case) was on the passenger seat
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    -She never activated the "Find My" feature Because this wasn't in school grounds, there was no clear camera footage, the best I could find was her car in the distance with passing traffic blocking the view. I watched the whole 10 minutes: starting from where they
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    got off the car, to when she realized the iPad wasn't there anymore and came storming back. I saw several people passed by during that time, but at no point could the actual theft be seen.
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    I did notice a blurry man took a longer time than everyone else walking by her car, so we pointed this out when we sent her the footage. The mom was I, she said the footage was useless since she couldn't even see who the man was or where he was heading. But sadly there was nothing else we could do.
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    She threw a big fuss and even put a bad Google review claiming "this school covers up for thieves". Apparently she wanted us to pay for the damages.
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    It's been a week now and she has finally calmed down, so boring ending to this story, I'm just baffled at the entitlement of wanting everyone else to pay for her ridiculous mistakes. Peace.
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    aquainst1 21h ago her. Camera footage proved no school involvement: instead, all responsibility for parking an unlocked vehicle on a public street is on HER.
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    mcflame13 • 21h ago All the blame is put on her. She decided not to park in the school's parking lot. She decided to leave her car unlocked. She decided to never active the Find My Device feature that is built into the OS. The only person she can blame is herself.
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    kiwimuz 21h ago • 100% the fault of the mother. If you leave an expensive item in an unlocked car on a public street then yes it may well be pinched. Do stupid things and win stupid prizes.
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    Brief-History-68... • 21h ago "I left the car off your property with the doors unlocked and valuables in plain sight.... THIS IS YOUR FAULT YOU THIEVES!!!"
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    Civil_Count_6485 • 20h ago Yeah well I'm gonna guess you are not a NCIS agent at night and the school is doing its level best to have security on the grounds to protect kids/staff and property. She made a poor choice and she handled it badly.
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    I'm wondering if it really was stolen. I'm wondering if she found it on the kitchen table when she got home. You did great. Thank you for trying.
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    Abystract-ism • 6h ago School officials should do a "malicious compliance" by sending out an announcement about the theft to all parents and advise that people do not park on the street and leave their cars unlocked.
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    . imthrowingcats 15h ago It totally makes sense, if she really did get her iPad stolen, that she's mad at everyone else because she's secretly embarrassed that she did such a monumentally stupid thing.
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    like leave a super expensive electronic device - in plain sight in an unlocked car. - She might as well have left a big sign on it saying, "I'm a idiot, go ahead and take my iPad, please!"
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    igramigru101 • 20h ago Find out if lady ever attended this school as student. . If not you can reply to her social rants. "this school has smart students. We teach them not to do stupid things. Would you like to enlist to our adult educational program?"

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