A Chinese thief painstakingly wrote out 11 pages of telephone numbers from a stolen iPhone and sent them to the owner, state media says.
The phone directory had nearly 1000 contact numbers and no backup copy.
Days later the owner of the phone received a parcel containing his SIM card and 11 pages of carefully handwritten contact numbers, Xinhua said.
(READ the AFP story from News.au)
I think the true hero here is the victim who did not have the thief killed, as he easily could have given his contacts with gangs. He gave the thief a chance to do the right thing. Not sure why the thief was chosen as the hero in this story. What is heroic about doing the right thing under threat?