Man Steals iPhone Being Used in GPS Tracking
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Losing your phone sucks. You lose your contacts, you have to call the store and cancel your SIM card so whoever finds it/stole it can't make any pricey calls, and you have to buy a new phone. However, if you're taking part in a GPS tracking trial that happens to monitor the position of your phone, you probably have a better chance of seeing it again.
A San Francisco woman recently had her iPhone stolen by one Horatio Toure. The San Francisco Chronicle cites police who say the 31-year-old city resident rode up to the woman on a bicycle, snatched her phone out of her hands, and then pedaled away.
Fortunately, Toure didn't look at the phone before hightailing it out of there. What he hadn't noticed during his little cycle-by was that the phone was part of a demonstration for a company showcasing GPS tracking. If he'd looked at the display, he would have seen the system tracking the phone, and as a result, its then-present carrier.
Roughly ten minutes later, Toure was captured about half a mile down the road and arrested on suspicion of grand theft and possession of stolen property.
Read the full story on San Francisco Chronicle.
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iphone Grand Theft Auto game. I do feel sorry for the lady.
You're stealing it wrong!
marketing campaign.
sounds like another stolen iPhone scandal. these are getting old.
Breaking News: Man steals iPhone only to get caught staring at the new Retina Display in amazement 10 feet from victim. When asked why he didn't run he responded,
"i'm such a fool, i just couldn't look away!"
ugh
iHoax
what dp i care?
Good thing he was not "holding it wrong".....then the signal may have never got through to track him haha
Tom's it's called a marketing campaign
It would have been much worse if he actually had the use it!
Thank goodness for the thief that the police caught him in time before he had to go through the frustrations of the iPhone like every other sucker er I mean owner.
So let me get this straight. He just happens to steal it from a lady using it to demo gps software. Does anyone smell a setup for free publicity?
Stupidity on part of the thief!
Is this another iphone was stolen stories, how many times do we have to hear some garbage like this from apple's retarded marketing team. SOrry but that iphone isn't worth stealing, its funky garbage. People need to stop looking like tards with ipads also and just buy a magazine.
whats more shocking is that the i phone 4 had a signal all the way down the street
haha i really lol'ed at the previous comments!
Got tracked by cyberpolice.
Got tracked by cyberpolice.
He done goofed; consequences will never be the same.
+1 hellboy
This happened last year in s.f. and she was sitting at the bus stop. Unless its a repeat of the same moronic act by a different loser.
i think this is why tomshardware has gone downhill because this story is not interesting at all, who cares toms, you really are getting sickening
The BS about all this "OH, we have GPS Tracking for your Cell" is that ANY stolen cell phone can be located by the cellular provider. They just don't want to do it. Not even for a fee.
Same goes with iPods. Apple can track those too, but they refuse to do so even when presented with a request/warrant from law enforcement.
It's so simple, there's no excuse.
Toms, please benchmark something.
iAD for apple..
He must felt wtf that after 10mins
So let me get this straight. He just happens to steal it from a lady using it to demo gps software. Does anyone smell a setup for free publicity?
If there is going to ba a charge put on that guy: No
A setup just to trick people into the crime? You probably think too much...
If the guy is released without a charge despit the clear evidence... then: YES
You're stealing it wrong!
I don't have anything more to add. I'm just making a new post so we can continue to rate up this awesome joke!
i think this is why tomshardware has gone downhill because this story is not interesting at all, who cares toms, you really are getting sickening
If Godsteve jobs were here, he'd say you're reading it the wrong way
where's Tom's article on how Apple is tracking the location of all its products anyways?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/te [...] -ipad.html
this has to be total bs. you are telling me that the phone was stolen, she contacted the police, the gps company was contacted, the police arrived on scene and the guy had managed to pedal a whopping .5 of a mile in that time?
evidently the gps police are using time machines to protect the iphone
This is all staged. Ten minutes and you only go as far as half a mile after stealing? Bull S.
This is all staged. Ten minutes and you only go as far as half a mile after stealing? Bull S.
I know right!
AND the police are SOOO fast to catch the dude for stealing a phone, as if they would get to this the same day.
Soooooooooooo tired of Apple news. Don't get me wrong, Apple, SOMETIMES, build great products (Microsoft too BTW!)... but the media exposure of these products is WAY too much.
Plz Tom's, jump out the window of the damn Apple Bandwagon...