So in our $50 stoner unit We've discovered two cell phones. (I call it the stoner unit because of the 12K or so of empty medical marijuana bags). Both power up, metropcs, and cricket pay as you go phones. So..
phone 1, pictures of his extremely large grow operation. Various women-some of them with surprising assets shall we say. But no text msgs stored. Trying to reset it...asks for security code....1234 nope. 1111 nope, 000, nope. hmmm....looking at the contacts he has one labeled "my number" last 4 digits of that...success. cleared phone for the yard sale.
Next phone...older one, some pics, mostly boring. Text messages though. "wanders"....he paid child support, then...you can track the last couple months before it all went to storage and why. I'm thinking cell phones are replacing diaries for fascinating reading. He was dealing pot it looks like, not making a lot, just here and there. paying bills, living out of a motel. Paid some towards his child support, so bonus points to the guy from me. Makes me happy I spent so much time getting all of his pictures back to uhaul, hope they catch up with him.
I think cell phones will be my new favorite find. Computers might be fun too. (My regular job is at Intel doing automated software QA stuff for motherboards).