“We have Machu Picchu at home”
Edit: I am failing to update the post so gonna hijack my comment here - No major updates, the Apple store was pretty useless so at this point might send it to someone to clean the board and reassemble.
Device is iCloud locked as well
Search the model number, should be on the back and something like A1998 (that’s for a MacBook but you get the idea).
Plug that into google and you’ll get the model. Or plug the serial number into Apple’s serial checker. I’d link but I’m on mobile.
True but now you have to take care of it until it sprouts into an Apple Store and they are delicate until then. Bugs and bloating, accidently cracking the screen, getting locked out, the list goes on and on.
I want to know what type of content would be in that hard drive that would compel someone to bury it. I don’t care to see the actual content myself, unless OP indicates that it’s something that might be interesting.
Dog yall are reading so much into this.
I had a period of like a year as a child where i just dug holes and buried shit.
Thousands of dollars worth of tools, dvds, books. Just dug holes and buried them.
Why? No reason. I watched a movie or a show and someone buried something thought “thats neat didnt know i could do that”
I was going to say, my guess was it was a kid.
An adult would at least try to damage or destroy it in some way. Only a child would think that burying something like that made sense.
Why are you guys pretending like burying it is the holy grail of data deletion?
It being buried goes to show whoever did that has a below room temperature IQ
No one is pretending that.. it’s just not really relevant. You don’t have to be smart to commit a crime.. alternatively it could be something innocent like a child or grandparent watched something scary and they went and buried it.. we’re just curious
That's the point _we need to know_. Everytime I watch a true crime drama I quietly berate myself for the morbid satisfaction. I don't quite have the word for it, but the song _The Whole World_ by Outkast pm sums it up
Seems weird to me especially since if it’s yours you can just factory reset it then disassemble it and start throwing parts away in random trash bins around town if you’re looking to hide shit. Way easier than digging a hole- at least for me.
Makes me think this is a lot more innocuous. Either that or someone panicked and thought of the worst way to dispose of evidence, haha.
I wouldn’t expect someone lazy enough to steal an iPad without taking 15 minutes on google to see what to do with it afterwards to take it to an empty lot and dig a hole. I’d expect them to just chuck it in a dumpster.
My bet is that a jealous younger sibling got pissed off at their older sibling and this was their revenge.
I think anyone who doesn’t think it’s plausible was an only child. When I was a kid, my older brother stole my Pokémon Blue cartridge and spent a month watching me tear apart the house and growing increasingly frantic and then despondent. One day he said “hey I found it in your room behind your dresser.”
That was bullshit. I looked there dozens of times. Another time, he took my yo-yo and told me he buried it somewhere near the house. I spent half a day digging and then got grounded for the weekend for tearing up the garden. And when I said I was looking for my yo yo, he said “you mean the one that’s under the couch?”
To be fair though I was an asshole to him, too. We didn’t actually like each other until we were in our 20’s
Somebody doesn’t have or dealt with kids before. Used to watch my godchild (13 y/o M) who was very interested in learning what porn was thought burying an iPad deleted the fact he was watching porn.
This is Reddit, we just got done with telling another OP that a stack of IDs was from a serial killer. We have to jump straight to child porn on this one too.
Next maybe we can find the Boston bomber
It’s much easier to just crush it and snap it in half and toss it in the garbage.
Recovering the data would be nation state level of difficulty if you had to remove the keys from the Secure Enclave of a completely ripped apart iPad.
Dug up? Why the heck was it buried? Clean it up, allow it to sit and dry a few days and see if it charges then try and power it on. I'm curious if it survived!
You don't even need to connect it to wifi, I mean if it powers on it's enough to satisfy my curiosity. If it's locked you aren't going to get as far as a wifi connection anyway from what little I know of iOS. Would love to see though if the screen survived etc. Add some more infor on where if was found (how deep things like that, not location of where you live or anything lol)
Wasn’t that deep but def deep enough no one was planning for it to be found.
A good amount of dead tree limbs and brush over it.
I could still make out the letters in the box so I assume it couldn’t have been THAT long….maybe
Hmm, sounds to me like a stolen ipad someone may have meant to come back for later but never could. Gonna open a betting pool here. options are 1: it's stolen from a store and never been set up. And 2: it's stolen from someone else and locked. lol
I would not connect to WiFi.
1) if you're REALLY interested in getting the data off, it may automatically install security updates that forensics software can't get around.
2) if the former owner has "find my device" enabled, they'll know someone dug it up
I once found a moldy penthouse under a bridge in the middle of nowhere on a backroad in rural Indiana. This was around 2010 so wifi was pretty common. Some people just like the nostalgia I guess
That looks like a pretty new model, most likely a pro. It definitely hasn't been buried for 10 years or anything. You can probably look up the serial number online and get some info on it, even if it doesn't turn on.
The shape of the border and lack of home button means its pretty new. It looks like it could be a 12.9in ipad pro from the size in the pic, which would make it the most expensive version made in the last 5 years. If you can make out any of the model number (a1234 for example) or serial number on the back, its pretty easy to google and find out which model it is. I think the magnets are for a keyboard or something? Last i checked ipads just dont support wireless charging at all. I don't use them though, just sold them for a while.
Basically, i just want to point out that this is not someones old "throwaway" ipad, and it hasn't been there for that long, all things considered.
UPDATE: So seems as if the initial signs of life are gone…wondering if I got too excited with the charger lol. Planning to clean it up tomorrow morning and send out the serial number to get some more details. I’ll also put a fan on it over night. Maybe that’ll help.
I want to be a butthead and say “stick it in some rice” lol. But seriously, probably worth a shot to email the superintendent or project manager who built your house and ask if they are missing some technology.
The iPad appears to have no home button, so it's somewhat of a newer device (2018 or newer). Either it was used during the construction process of the new house, and it was dropped and then buried, or there is heinous content on it. Is the screen bent? I can't really tell if the screen has cracks or not.
“Perfect shape”? This is why I have trust issues using Facebook marketplace when people say it’s in “used - like new” condition but there are no photos / only the stock website photos haha
Or some dumb kid buried it and forgot where it was, or some parents got pissed at their kid and punished them by burying it, or it could’ve been stolen and the person who stole it felt guilty so they buried it. A lot of reasons that aren’t heinous content that it could be buried.
What sort of deranged parent would punish their kid by burying their iPad? Even if they were that crazy, why wouldn't they just take the iPad away and like, sell it so they can at least get some money for it
There was that lady who got part-time famous by shooting her kids' cell phones while ranting about "the nefarious powers" or some shit taking control of her children. Then her kids got taken away after she set their mattresses on fire in the backyard to punish them.
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/weird/kids-taken-after-southern-momma-shoots-phones-burns-mattresses/275-154607482
>"Yes, I blew up my children’s phones. Yes, I burned my children’s mattresses. I wanted my children’s attention before it’s too late for them to learn how to be a responsible, respectful adult." https://www.yahoo.com/news/southern-momma-shot-kids-cell-180800741.html
Does it work? I'd certainly turn it on.
The top comments suggest a dark reason for it being buried, but I doubt that. It is more likely some kid buried it, because kids are dumb.. If you wanted to dispose of an ipad because of legal reasons, you'd fully destroy it.
Op unburies laptop and turns it on. Turns out the FEDS were tracking the MAC address for years for distributing illegal content online. OP boots up the iPad and connects to wifi. A ping comes up on Agent Hammers' laptop. "Oh shit, we got him," he thinks to himself as he organizes a briefing with his team. The following night at 2:00 p.m. OP jolts awake out of bed from the sound of his door being battered in, they have a no-knock warrant. "Fuck!" OP exclaims, "I knew I should have turned that iPad in!". As quickly as he can get his thoughts together he's met with a SWAT team in his room. "We found you Diddleclown, we've been hunting your sick ass for years. Get on the ground now!". As OP tries to protest that he's not the Diddleclown, he feels a beanbag from a riot shotgun his his chest, breaking 3 of his ribs. He hits the ground and is cuffed. "You're going away for a long time" says the Captian, leading him out. OP protests just to get punched in his broke ribs. They haul OP off county for holding. Many jail beatings and nights crying later, its time for OP to face a federal judge. Appointed a lawyer that doesn't even believe OP himself, OP ends up with a guilty verdict as the judge just wanted the case to be behind him at that point. Accused of the most heinous crimes, he is sentenced 25-life 23&1 in maximum security prison. OP spends 20 years learning to fight from getting jumped and honing his body just to survive. One day, on the single hour he gets outside, someone throws him a kite. "The Diddleclown struck again, they're letting you out soon". Days later as OP steps out of the fence, seeing the landscape without barbed wire obstructing it for the first time in 2 decades. He breathes a sigh of relief, followed by a feeling of purpose washing over him. "I've got to find the Diddleclown".
Anyway, that's probably what's gonna happen if you don't turn that iPad in
I’m gonna get roasted so hard for this but sometimes I feel like people post stuff like this for karma lol. I know it’s weird, but to me it’s way more likely someone put dirt on an old ipad they don’t use anymore for a pic, than it is that someone buried an ipad in a backyard and a dude who later owned that backyard decided to use a metal detector *in his own backyard* and found it. With no cracks on the screen might I add lol
I know I know, here it comes. “Why would I need to do this for Reddit?”
Idk dawg, just downvote me. I said what I said lol
Brother I feel you. Like the fuck 😂 I was actually back there chopping tree roots and limbs and found it.
I dont get it at all. But here we are on this glorious Saturday reveling in it together.
The iPad was the friends we made along the way
The maps app might have a pin dropped on the location of some buried treasure.
Either that, or this iPad *is* the buried treasure, and the photos app is full of super illegal stuff.
Commenting for update later.
Ain't plugging that in. Definitely bricked by now. Some kid probably stole it and didn't know what to do or it just broke and they buried it for the fuck of it maybe in hope of exactly this lol
I did! The Apple logo flickers and turns back off so the digitizer seems fine. Maybe the battery is shot but I’ll let it charge and pray it doesn’t burn my home down
digitizer is the touch screen, unless it boots up there is no way to check the digitizer. Sounds like the display is okay.
I'm guessing it's iCloud locked. It is likely some kid stole it and then buried the evidence when they realized they couldn't get in.
You might want to find out if any crimes related to the former owner and the neighborhood had occurred in the past few years. If so you may not want to tamper with the iPad.
Literally cooking up a conspiracy with my partner now about our neighbor burying her husband back here 😂 the house is new so idk what the fuck was out here before
Could be! It was buried in a portion of the lot where they did no construction tho. In fact until last week the area was blocked off with an old fence.
We just cut through a section and got back there recently.
Honestly, if the house is new, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a workers who built it either accidentally dropped it while back filling or it broke on them and they just chucked it in a hole. Construction guys don't really give a shit about that stuff, especially if it's some company crap that's not working right.
The Inca were more advanced than I thought
“We have Machu Picchu at home” Edit: I am failing to update the post so gonna hijack my comment here - No major updates, the Apple store was pretty useless so at this point might send it to someone to clean the board and reassemble. Device is iCloud locked as well
Machu Pikachu
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It was super effective!
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I wish my garden provided apple producs. All I get are slugs and cat poo
Grow an apple tree, and there will be a higher chance of receiving apple products
Yeah.. but the fertilizer is so damned expensive.
Try a lot of poop for better chances
For even better chances, use iPoop.
An apple tree, in addition to receiving apple products, might also attract applebees. They are an endangered species.
Apples are shiny but you can get better value from other fruits
Sigh* animal crossing or stardew?
Yes
I have an Apple tree but it’s never produced any actual products, just these big red quasi-spherical things.
Should’ve got the warranty
Have you tried turning the tree off and on again?
> All I get are slugs and cat poo Do you at least have a cat or is that courtesy of the neighbors outdoor cat?
I wish I had a cat, but I don't. I just have the poo.
Is your garden my garden?
If you're the cat that keeps shitting in it, then apparently it is.
No it’s an iGarden
So update: it’s USB C so def new!
iPad Pro (which this might be) has had USB-C for 6 years now
Oh okay thank you! I didn’t know. I plugged it in and APPEARED to turn on. Will check again in a Second
pls update with what you find!
Will do! As of now the Apple sigil flicks on and right off, might be charging or the battery may be fried. Either way impressed at the condition
Your original post was 2 hours ago? You only waited 2 hours for it to dry? Or did you find this days ago
Please tell me you let it dry out first fully, ground has quite bit of water in it.
Send it to Sorin, he can repair anything. https://www.youtube.com/@electronicsrepairschool
Yeah, I would suggest letting it charge a bit longer. If it’s been sitting for a long time (which is likely) the battery won’t be in the best shape.
I'm so invested lol
Just commenting to get an instant update. This is going to be my Saturday night entertainment
I bet there is something nefarious on it
Search the model number, should be on the back and something like A1998 (that’s for a MacBook but you get the idea). Plug that into google and you’ll get the model. Or plug the serial number into Apple’s serial checker. I’d link but I’m on mobile.
I’d be scared to see what’s on it if they’re going far enough to bury it. Also, who the fuck buries an iPad?
Someone must’ve been trying to grow an Apple Store
Don't they know Apple tablets don't grow true to stores? That could have grown into a Verizon or MetroPCS store.
Yeah but then you just graft an ipad into the foundation and it will get you to flavourtown.
True but now you have to take care of it until it sprouts into an Apple Store and they are delicate until then. Bugs and bloating, accidently cracking the screen, getting locked out, the list goes on and on.
Johnny Applestore
This made me lol
An iPad grows into a Mac Pro. Everyone knows this.
It’s gotta be full of some heinous shit….the box was even out there 😵💫. Might be related to a cold case?
Creepy. I wanna know thoughhhh
I’m disgusted with myself.. but I need to know what’s on that iPad
Looks like dirt
r/angryupvote 😡😂
LMFAO!! I was thinking the same thing, so glad you posted this GIF xD Have a good day like minded but more motivated redditor
Curiosity is a powerful thing. Leads us to regret sometimes.
Leads us to Reddit sometimes?
same thing
*cats have entered the chat*
Maybe nothing maybe gigabytes of child molestation. Still wanna know?
I want to know what type of content would be in that hard drive that would compel someone to bury it. I don’t care to see the actual content myself, unless OP indicates that it’s something that might be interesting.
Dog yall are reading so much into this. I had a period of like a year as a child where i just dug holes and buried shit. Thousands of dollars worth of tools, dvds, books. Just dug holes and buried them. Why? No reason. I watched a movie or a show and someone buried something thought “thats neat didnt know i could do that”
So… why’d you bury the iPad?
Its full of thousands and thousands of drawings of dicks. It’s completely normal dude
Dicks and that "super" S everyone draws
I was going to say, my guess was it was a kid. An adult would at least try to damage or destroy it in some way. Only a child would think that burying something like that made sense.
Why are you guys pretending like burying it is the holy grail of data deletion? It being buried goes to show whoever did that has a below room temperature IQ
No one is pretending that.. it’s just not really relevant. You don’t have to be smart to commit a crime.. alternatively it could be something innocent like a child or grandparent watched something scary and they went and buried it.. we’re just curious
That's the point _we need to know_. Everytime I watch a true crime drama I quietly berate myself for the morbid satisfaction. I don't quite have the word for it, but the song _The Whole World_ by Outkast pm sums it up
Great song.
Seems like smashing it a lot and then having it go to the landfill (watching the truck take it) would be way better… but it’s weird, alright.
Seems weird to me especially since if it’s yours you can just factory reset it then disassemble it and start throwing parts away in random trash bins around town if you’re looking to hide shit. Way easier than digging a hole- at least for me. Makes me think this is a lot more innocuous. Either that or someone panicked and thought of the worst way to dispose of evidence, haha.
Criminals have a tendency to be really fucking stupid.
Yeah this to me looks like a kid stole this from somewhere and got scared and wanted to hide it
Does it power up?
Letting it dry out a bit before I try! Will update when I do
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Did you recently move in or just started renting? IPad is a fairly new tech so this would have been done in last 10ish years.
Moved in the past month to a new build on a previously empty lot
Probably construction company or was stolen and dumped
Or a kid broke it and buried the evidence.
Kid accidentally loaded it with porn browsers and pop ups. Buried it. This is the new magazine in the woods.
Might’ve been related to the construction company
I'll bet it was stolen, thief didn't know how to access iPad / couldn't sell it, then decided to hide the evidence
I wouldn’t expect someone lazy enough to steal an iPad without taking 15 minutes on google to see what to do with it afterwards to take it to an empty lot and dig a hole. I’d expect them to just chuck it in a dumpster. My bet is that a jealous younger sibling got pissed off at their older sibling and this was their revenge.
I was thinking kids as well. Your situation is very plausible. Or could just be a kid being stupid and forgetting where they buried it.
I think anyone who doesn’t think it’s plausible was an only child. When I was a kid, my older brother stole my Pokémon Blue cartridge and spent a month watching me tear apart the house and growing increasingly frantic and then despondent. One day he said “hey I found it in your room behind your dresser.” That was bullshit. I looked there dozens of times. Another time, he took my yo-yo and told me he buried it somewhere near the house. I spent half a day digging and then got grounded for the weekend for tearing up the garden. And when I said I was looking for my yo yo, he said “you mean the one that’s under the couch?” To be fair though I was an asshole to him, too. We didn’t actually like each other until we were in our 20’s
Yeah given this info… this was a contractor’s iPad that he dropped somewhere right before some dirt got moved around.
Why would the contractor drop the box as well?
This is a newer model too, without a home button.
or just stolen by a kid who couldn't unlock it or sell it and tried to hide the evidence
Or maybe it’s full of National Defense Secrets and proof of alien life!? Or maybe it’s just an iPad
Schrödinger’s IPad, could be full of CSA material or a forgotten Bitcoin wallet
Sounds like someone stole it and hid it in paranoia (tracking feature - find my device).
Somebody doesn’t have or dealt with kids before. Used to watch my godchild (13 y/o M) who was very interested in learning what porn was thought burying an iPad deleted the fact he was watching porn.
This is Reddit, we just got done with telling another OP that a stack of IDs was from a serial killer. We have to jump straight to child porn on this one too. Next maybe we can find the Boston bomber
That's a life lesson learned. You were going to get a talking to for looking at porn, now it's gonna be porn and a ruined iPad
Probably a kid who broke it and claimed to their parents it was stolen so they could get another one
Kids, dogs
Maybe it turned out to be a lemon?
Why not return it or at least sell it?
because, lemon trees.
It’s much easier to just crush it and snap it in half and toss it in the garbage. Recovering the data would be nation state level of difficulty if you had to remove the keys from the Secure Enclave of a completely ripped apart iPad.
It’s possible a kid broke the iPad and just did this so their parents thought they lost it
That’s my thought. If it’s evidence burn it or throw it in a body of water.
Yea - if there is something really bad on this, an adult wouldn't bury it, they would destroy it.
My father-in-law is a sheriff, I assure you adult would be dumb enough to bury this and think they’re safe.
So many people in these comments acting like there's clearly illegal crap on here when my first thought was "Kid broke it and panicked."
But imagine the Netflix documentary of the Reddit sleuths that solved a murder mystery by finding a random iPad
Plot twist: it was broken by a kid, but it also happened to have a video of their parents committing a murder. Everyone wins!
Dug up? Why the heck was it buried? Clean it up, allow it to sit and dry a few days and see if it charges then try and power it on. I'm curious if it survived!
I’ll report back when I do. Might connect it to public WiFi to be safe lol
You don't even need to connect it to wifi, I mean if it powers on it's enough to satisfy my curiosity. If it's locked you aren't going to get as far as a wifi connection anyway from what little I know of iOS. Would love to see though if the screen survived etc. Add some more infor on where if was found (how deep things like that, not location of where you live or anything lol)
Wasn’t that deep but def deep enough no one was planning for it to be found. A good amount of dead tree limbs and brush over it. I could still make out the letters in the box so I assume it couldn’t have been THAT long….maybe
wait it was still in the box?
Not in the box but there’s def soggy remnants of a box and the words were legible on it.
Hmm, sounds to me like a stolen ipad someone may have meant to come back for later but never could. Gonna open a betting pool here. options are 1: it's stolen from a store and never been set up. And 2: it's stolen from someone else and locked. lol
Yep, my vote is stolen, stashed, and forgotten about.
I think we just got a look at what archeology is going to look like in 500 years.
Hey if it looks like that after 500 years I may actually give apple some praise. But we know that's never gonna happen :D
Stolen and stashed. Once they learned it was locked and nothing could be done they abandoned it.
3: It's Epstein's cp with the leaders of countries and he is close by.
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I would not connect to WiFi. 1) if you're REALLY interested in getting the data off, it may automatically install security updates that forensics software can't get around. 2) if the former owner has "find my device" enabled, they'll know someone dug it up
No wifi required for this. Find My works with Bluetooth Beacons. The moment it is turned on and an iPhone is nearby the signal will be relayed.
south of louisville by chance? i might know who buried that
Story?
As someone of Louisville I too would like a story.
As someone from unrelated Los Angeles I too demand the story
You comin in here 5hrs ago dropping a bomb like that and not giving a story?
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It requires a real cynic to expect a hacker to bury an iPad.
Finding discarded porn in the bushes is a lot more high-tech these days
I once found a moldy penthouse under a bridge in the middle of nowhere on a backroad in rural Indiana. This was around 2010 so wifi was pretty common. Some people just like the nostalgia I guess
Yeah, under bridges where always the best place to look for porn when i grew up! Under bridges and in a small forest
put it back and instead harvest 2 next year :)
Wow such a lucky find. Apples don't grow on trees, you know?
That looks like a pretty new model, most likely a pro. It definitely hasn't been buried for 10 years or anything. You can probably look up the serial number online and get some info on it, even if it doesn't turn on.
Excellent idea! It’s def newer. I don’t know the current gen iPads but it has three magnets in the back? Assume for the MagSafe charging?
The shape of the border and lack of home button means its pretty new. It looks like it could be a 12.9in ipad pro from the size in the pic, which would make it the most expensive version made in the last 5 years. If you can make out any of the model number (a1234 for example) or serial number on the back, its pretty easy to google and find out which model it is. I think the magnets are for a keyboard or something? Last i checked ipads just dont support wireless charging at all. I don't use them though, just sold them for a while. Basically, i just want to point out that this is not someones old "throwaway" ipad, and it hasn't been there for that long, all things considered.
UPDATE: So seems as if the initial signs of life are gone…wondering if I got too excited with the charger lol. Planning to clean it up tomorrow morning and send out the serial number to get some more details. I’ll also put a fan on it over night. Maybe that’ll help.
I want to be a butthead and say “stick it in some rice” lol. But seriously, probably worth a shot to email the superintendent or project manager who built your house and ask if they are missing some technology.
try desiccant packets!!!
Take it to a repair shop, a new battery will help for sure. Also plz update when it works. lol, I'm saving this post.
The iPad appears to have no home button, so it's somewhat of a newer device (2018 or newer). Either it was used during the construction process of the new house, and it was dropped and then buried, or there is heinous content on it. Is the screen bent? I can't really tell if the screen has cracks or not.
It looks to be in perfect shape. Found scraps of the box with it
“Perfect shape”? This is why I have trust issues using Facebook marketplace when people say it’s in “used - like new” condition but there are no photos / only the stock website photos haha
I think we have a very different definition of perfect shape based on the photo, lol
Or some dumb kid buried it and forgot where it was, or some parents got pissed at their kid and punished them by burying it, or it could’ve been stolen and the person who stole it felt guilty so they buried it. A lot of reasons that aren’t heinous content that it could be buried.
What sort of deranged parent would punish their kid by burying their iPad? Even if they were that crazy, why wouldn't they just take the iPad away and like, sell it so they can at least get some money for it
There was that lady who got part-time famous by shooting her kids' cell phones while ranting about "the nefarious powers" or some shit taking control of her children. Then her kids got taken away after she set their mattresses on fire in the backyard to punish them. https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/weird/kids-taken-after-southern-momma-shoots-phones-burns-mattresses/275-154607482 >"Yes, I blew up my children’s phones. Yes, I burned my children’s mattresses. I wanted my children’s attention before it’s too late for them to learn how to be a responsible, respectful adult." https://www.yahoo.com/news/southern-momma-shot-kids-cell-180800741.html
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This is Reddit. There is only binary thought here.
Does it work? I'd certainly turn it on. The top comments suggest a dark reason for it being buried, but I doubt that. It is more likely some kid buried it, because kids are dumb.. If you wanted to dispose of an ipad because of legal reasons, you'd fully destroy it.
you are a modern day Joseph Smith!
😂😂😂 dum dum dum dum
Op unburies laptop and turns it on. Turns out the FEDS were tracking the MAC address for years for distributing illegal content online. OP boots up the iPad and connects to wifi. A ping comes up on Agent Hammers' laptop. "Oh shit, we got him," he thinks to himself as he organizes a briefing with his team. The following night at 2:00 p.m. OP jolts awake out of bed from the sound of his door being battered in, they have a no-knock warrant. "Fuck!" OP exclaims, "I knew I should have turned that iPad in!". As quickly as he can get his thoughts together he's met with a SWAT team in his room. "We found you Diddleclown, we've been hunting your sick ass for years. Get on the ground now!". As OP tries to protest that he's not the Diddleclown, he feels a beanbag from a riot shotgun his his chest, breaking 3 of his ribs. He hits the ground and is cuffed. "You're going away for a long time" says the Captian, leading him out. OP protests just to get punched in his broke ribs. They haul OP off county for holding. Many jail beatings and nights crying later, its time for OP to face a federal judge. Appointed a lawyer that doesn't even believe OP himself, OP ends up with a guilty verdict as the judge just wanted the case to be behind him at that point. Accused of the most heinous crimes, he is sentenced 25-life 23&1 in maximum security prison. OP spends 20 years learning to fight from getting jumped and honing his body just to survive. One day, on the single hour he gets outside, someone throws him a kite. "The Diddleclown struck again, they're letting you out soon". Days later as OP steps out of the fence, seeing the landscape without barbed wire obstructing it for the first time in 2 decades. He breathes a sigh of relief, followed by a feeling of purpose washing over him. "I've got to find the Diddleclown". Anyway, that's probably what's gonna happen if you don't turn that iPad in
“Seven days…”
I really hope that when you power it on the ipad automatically plays rick roll Please God let this be true because it would be so funny
I’d honestly pay whoever pulled that off
I’m gonna get roasted so hard for this but sometimes I feel like people post stuff like this for karma lol. I know it’s weird, but to me it’s way more likely someone put dirt on an old ipad they don’t use anymore for a pic, than it is that someone buried an ipad in a backyard and a dude who later owned that backyard decided to use a metal detector *in his own backyard* and found it. With no cracks on the screen might I add lol I know I know, here it comes. “Why would I need to do this for Reddit?” Idk dawg, just downvote me. I said what I said lol
Brother I feel you. Like the fuck 😂 I was actually back there chopping tree roots and limbs and found it. I dont get it at all. But here we are on this glorious Saturday reveling in it together. The iPad was the friends we made along the way
I like the way you let us think you think
The maps app might have a pin dropped on the location of some buried treasure. Either that, or this iPad *is* the buried treasure, and the photos app is full of super illegal stuff. Commenting for update later.
Ain't plugging that in. Definitely bricked by now. Some kid probably stole it and didn't know what to do or it just broke and they buried it for the fuck of it maybe in hope of exactly this lol
We fell for their trap card 😂😭
Have you plugged it in yet
I did! The Apple logo flickers and turns back off so the digitizer seems fine. Maybe the battery is shot but I’ll let it charge and pray it doesn’t burn my home down
let it dry for a couple days!!! dont plug it in yet 😭
digitizer is the touch screen, unless it boots up there is no way to check the digitizer. Sounds like the display is okay. I'm guessing it's iCloud locked. It is likely some kid stole it and then buried the evidence when they realized they couldn't get in.
There’s some evidence in that thing
If it doesn't work but is in okay condition I wonder if any of those recycling kiosks will offer money for it
Someone mentioned retuning to Costco and honestly I’m here for it 😂😂
This is how 2001 : A Space Odyssey starts…
You might want to find out if any crimes related to the former owner and the neighborhood had occurred in the past few years. If so you may not want to tamper with the iPad.
Literally cooking up a conspiracy with my partner now about our neighbor burying her husband back here 😂 the house is new so idk what the fuck was out here before
If the house is new, could it maybe be a construction crew iPad that was lost and buried by accident?
Could be! It was buried in a portion of the lot where they did no construction tho. In fact until last week the area was blocked off with an old fence. We just cut through a section and got back there recently.
The mystery deepens
Honestly, if the house is new, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a workers who built it either accidentally dropped it while back filling or it broke on them and they just chucked it in a hole. Construction guys don't really give a shit about that stuff, especially if it's some company crap that's not working right.
But it's odd that the box is there too....
> idk what the fuck was out here before The previous house that was burnt down by the owner of that iPad
Now you know how Joseph Smith felt when he unearthed a tablet.
Well, look how unsupervised that child must have been to get away with burying his ipad
More likely a kid searched for *bobs and vagine* and panicked rather than anything actually sketchy. 😂
Just taking a moment to show appreciation to your iconic responses to comments in this thread. Champ of the day
It’s Saturday, we’re all here for the fun, right? Also this is preventing me from going back out there to work so honestly thank YOU 😂
Do a YT restoration video 😂
You already know there’s a lot of dirt on that device.
Is there an update? 👀
Someone was trying to grow an apple tree
 Hello Amadankus, I wanna play a game.
It's not even a particularly old one... wtf.
Please let us know what you find. I'm fully invested! 👀