{"id":81158,"date":"2015-01-01T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=81158"},"modified":"2014-12-25T15:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T20:01:50","slug":"hey-thats-my-snare-drum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/01\/hey-thats-my-snare-drum-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, That\u2019s My Snare Drum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We\u2019re out until January 5, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we\u2019re away. We hope you enjoy\u2014and have a happy New Year!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71343\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/snare.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71343\" class=\"wp-image-71343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/snare.jpeg\" alt=\"snare\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/snare.jpeg 3264w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/snare-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/snare-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-71343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This drum is mine.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week, the <em>Times<\/em> recognized a new trend in vigilantism: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/04\/us\/when-hitting-find-my-iphone-takes-you-to-a-thiefs-doorstep.html\" target=\"_blank\">do-it-yourself iPhone recovery<\/a>. When someone finds his phone stolen, he uses the phone\u2019s GPS to locate the thief; the resulting confrontations usually end peacefully, with the phone restored to its rightful owner and the thief shuffling off into the night, cowed and shamed. In one especially rousing case, a man rustled up the thief using OkCupid:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He lured the thief to his Brooklyn apartment building by posing as a woman and flirting with him on the dating service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When the thief arrived with a bottle of wine, expecting to meet \u201cJennifer,\u201d Mr. Nirenberg went up behind him, hammer at his side. He slapped a $20 bill on the thief, to mollify him and compensate him for his time and wine, and demanded the phone. The thief handed it over and slunk away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Instead of giving that man the key to the city, the fuzz have advised against this kind of justice. Of course they have: no one likes to feel redundant. In the supercilious words of an LAPD spokesman, \u201cIt\u2019s just a phone \u2026 Let police officers take care of it. We have backup, guns, radio, jackets\u2014all that stuff civilians don\u2019t have.\u201d As if LA\u2019s finest would, in their eminent wisdom, break out the flak jackets and heavy artillery to liberate your telephone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u2019m here to tell you: you can be your own authority. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/15\/hey-thats-my-snare-drum\/\">Read More &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re out until January 5, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we\u2019re away. We hope you enjoy\u2014and have a happy New Year! Last week, the Times recognized a new trend in vigilantism: do-it-yourself iPhone recovery. When someone finds his phone stolen, he uses the phone\u2019s GPS to locate the thief; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16464],"tags":[958,3893,5866,7313,282,13930,13931],"class_list":["post-81158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-2014","tag-brooklyn","tag-bushwick","tag-craigslist","tag-iphones","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-thievery","tag-vulture-shit"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A New Trend in Vigilantism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring on do-it-yourself iPhone recovery.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/01\/hey-thats-my-snare-drum-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hey, That\u2019s My Snare Drum! by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 1, 2015 \u2013 We\u2019re out until January 5, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we\u2019re away. 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