User blog comment:Kittyfire/Random Topic Blogging!/@comment-5151799-20111129011121/@comment-5151799-20111130015740

@TD: Well, keep in mind that I was sitting in the front row of the theater when I was watching The Muppets and the 3DS fell out of my pocket. Note that there was only one other row of chairs behind the front row, and then behind that was a platform that held the above row, and above that another platform with another row, and so on and so forth. Therefore, only people directly behind me could have gotten the 3DS, and if I recall, there were a couple of kids in the behind row, so one of them must have noticed it, picked it up, and gone with it on their merry way.

Say that their parent(s) noticed them with the 3DS on the car ride home or something of the sort and learned they had gotten it from the theater. That parent would either take their child back to the theater and give the device in to the lost and found, or let the child keep it and endorse stealing. If they did return it to the theater, I could call the movies and tell them if anyone handed a 3DS in, which I will get to doing one of these days. If the kid was able to keep the 3DS, they would take it home and play it, correct? The 3DS has a short battery life, however, so in a few hours, it would die. The kid would have to buy a 3DS charger or use a DSi charger. If they do not get these, they will most likely discard it.

Suppose that the kid was able to get a charger, and is now well acquainted with the 3DS, knowing of all of its benefits and so forth, and has knowledge of downloading things from the eShop. Next month, a new messaging system for the 3DS is coming out - Swapnote - which will be downloadable from the eShop. If the kid in ownership of the 3DS has not formatted the system memory (that is, erased all the data), then my friends on the 3DS's friend list should still be intact. If both the kid and my friends download Swapnote, I can notify my friends per the internet to send the new 3DS owner a message stating that the 3DS was stolen, and leave suggestions on how to mail it to me or something. Hopefully, the receiver can be negotiable and will give me the device (I may even give them a reward or something), or they may be rash and delete the friends from the friend list, eliminating all way of us being able to contract him/her.

TL;DR: If the kid's parents dumped the 3DS in the theater's lost and found, I should be able to go there and retrieve it in a week or two. If not, and we are lucky enough to have the new owner NOT delete the system memory and download the messaging system, we'll be able to talk to him/her and get the 3DS back to its rightful owner - i.e., moi.

And... that's it. Thoughts?