A local business man is thanking his lucky stars after a couple found and returned his missing iPad last week.
About two weeks ago, Ben Gill, owner of Kismet Hookah Lounge on Kingsway, drove home after closing up shop around 2 a.m. not realizing he had left his iPad on the back of his pick-up truck. By the time he got home, the iPad, containing loads of important information, was gone.
About a week passed, and Gill was certain the iPad was gone – either crushed or broken after falling off his truck, or found by someone who decided not to return it, but then he got a call from a woman who said her partner had found the missing iPad.
“And buddy says, ‘Well, the iPad finally connected to the Internet and the message came through that this iPad is lost, call this number,’” Gill told the NOW.
The woman on the phone told Gill her boyfriend found the iPad in the intersection of Edmonds Street and Kingsway. Gill quickly arranged to meet with the couple to confirm it was his missing tablet, and sure enough, it was Gill’s iPad – a little banged up but still in working order.
On Friday, Gill contacted the NOW to share his story and how excited he was that the couple chose to return the iPad rather than just run off with it.
“They easily could have gone to somebody, jail-broken the iPad and then boom, away you go, you’re good to go with it,” Gill said.
The NOW attempted to contact the couple who recovered Gill’s iPad, but none of our phone calls were returned. Gill said the man, whose name he forgot to get because of all the excitement, was especially humble about the whole situation.
“It’s one of those stories where people are like, ‘Wow, man, there’s honest people,’ and he wouldn’t take anything for it,” he added.
