Posted on 08/08/2022 7:58:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
My son lost his new iPhone at a home high school basketball game. After looking where he last saw it, he immediately drove home to tell us the bad news.
We did the “find my phone” thing and saw it moving down a nearby street, then getting on the interstate. We jumped in the car and went in pursuit while the kid tracked and repeatedly called and texted his phone. They got caught in a traffic jam and I exited early, guessing they were going to the basketball opponents community.
We ended up pulling up to their house less than five minutes after. You could see the phone track go right up to the door.
The cops from that community at first wouldn’t even knock on door. But when I asked them to wait while did, they at least went up instead.
As I listened, the resident said they were at the game but didn’t know anything about a phone. Cops said nothing they could do.
I went to our police and told them everything.
They went to the guy and said if after reviewing the security film from the basketball court, they see him pick up the phone, they would arrest him at his work. Later that day, the phone mysteriously reappeared at the station.
Funny, there was no security camera in the court area.
My cousin had his iPad stolen he turned it in he did the locate thing knew the exact location that he went with the deputy to the house it was the house of a border patrolman and the deputy would do nothing.
“I’d just tell the cops, you go there or that house burns down.”
The next thing you know, you are standing in the lunch line at the state prison when you are asked “What are you in for?”
And you answer “I’m doing life for making terrorist threats, arson, and murder of the four people that were killed when I set their house on fire. But it was all worth it! Those guys stole my iPhone 6 with a cracked screen!”
We realize the problem. The cousin lacked periods and sentences
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I guess you consider the truth to be racist.
The reality of policing today, is that cops (on orders from their higher ups) will try to avoid actions which may escalate into a riot.
Theft laws aren’t keeping up with inflation, so the theft of an iphone is a felony in Illinois... and probably most states. You’d think that fact should get the police to do something.
Word to the wise; if you lose your phone, have your phone stolen, or can’t find it for months, report it to the police as stolen and get a record of that report. Also contact the cell phone provider to have services turned off. Just removing a sim card from an old broken phone will not keep nefarious persons from using the phone. If you think it couldn’t happen to you, think again. A personal acquaintance is going through hell after a cell phone with a broken screen stashed away in the back of a drawer was stolen from their dwelling. The stolen phone was later used for some pretty nasty stuff, eventually confiscated by some corrupt LEO’s who then used the same phone to catch other nasty people. In the course of the ‘stings’, the stolen phone was traced back to the original owner (my acquaintance) who was then arrested for being an accomplice in something they knew nothing about done from a phone they thought was still stashed in a drawer. Like my acquaintance, the average person doesn’t have the $100,000 to $200,000 laying around to fight legal bullshit like this, they are left to endure. So, take heed.
Why anyone would buy an apple product really escapes me. Then go to any effort to retrieve it? Omg. Calling the cops for a stolen phone?????????
We know a 50 something guy, who has worked for 2+ decades for a large family owned food planting, raising, harvesting and whatever needs to be done to package the products, ship them and get them on shelves to be bought.
The family owned company covers 7 counties north and NE and E of Frisco with some of the best farmland in California as their property or contract property.
Starting about this week, he and a peer will handle basically any/all problems from harvest to bottling/packaging and shipping.
They basically say goodbye to their families, friends and life in general from now to about Thanksgiving.
Last year his company Apple Iphone disappeared during one of his crazy days. The company got an emergency spare phone to him, disabled the “lost” one and finally found it in a tool bag used by him and his peer at a combined stop by both guys.
No bad calls or personal calls had been made that phone.
Both men swore, that they had checked the job work site bag before leaving the site.
A relative has a similar job except dealing with engineering challenges. Their company phones are monitored 24/7 by an outside firm.
> But it was all worth it! Those guys stole my iPhone 6 with a cracked screen!”
I’ve got an iPhone 11
You can use it to log into FR from prison
“Big city cops are NOT interested in sparking a confrontation, leading to a riot, over an iPhone.”
And, it’s only property. It’s insured. And if you think about it, it’s kind of unfair that the non-phone-thief class has phones and the phone thieves can’t have them. Besides, if they arrested the thief, they might have to release him and drop charges under the orders of a Soros DA because, it’s really unfair to jail a member of the phone-thief class for something as silly as a phone. What kind of social justice is that?
My old phones get to meet an old acquaintance of mine: A three ton arbor press.
Good choice!
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