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How carjacking victim of Boston bombers left his iPhone in his Mercedes...to track them...
Daily Mail ^ | UPDATED: 09:23 EST, 27 April 2013 | By Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 04/28/2013 10:12:17 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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How carjacking victim of Boston bombers left his iPhone in his Mercedes so police could track them and thwart their plans to drive to New York

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FBI officials released surveillance video of suspected bombers on April 18

The driver whose car was hijacked by the Boston bombing suspects has revealed how authorities used the iPhone he left in the stolen car to track the fleeing brothers, thwarting their plans to attack New York City.

Known only as 'Danny,' the 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur whose car was stolen, says he had pulled his car over to the side of the road to text when Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev approached his Mercedes at 11pm on April 18.

After an hour and a half in their company, Danny said this week that he managed to escape but purposely left his smartphone in the car and alerted police of the phone's tracking technology.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: apple; applerules; bbcarjack; bbdanny; bostonbombing; bostonjihad; iphone; jihadinamerica; massachusetts; russia; tsarnaev; waronterror
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The FBI is in touch with a number of the individuals in this photograph " Target: Dzhokar Tsarnaev had been in New York months earlier, pictured in November of 2012. The FBI is in touch with a number of the individuals in this photograph
1 posted on 04/28/2013 10:12:18 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: IsraelBeach; TigersEye; Marine_Uncle; justa-hairyape; onyx; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; blam; ...
More :

The were heading for new York City next.

2 posted on 04/28/2013 10:14:50 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

says he had pulled his car over to the side of the road to text”

...yeah, right. Just sayin’.


3 posted on 04/28/2013 10:17:10 AM PDT by albie (s)
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To: albie
I pull over to text, though usually I'll just wait until the next scheduled stop.

If it's time critical, they'll call and I can talk while driving with my bluetooth, otherwise it will wait.

4 posted on 04/28/2013 10:21:05 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: albie
"says he had pulled his car over to the side of the road to text” ...yeah, right. Just sayin’.

?

You lost me there.

5 posted on 04/28/2013 10:23:11 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Pretty savvy guy.

Remember that they can track your cell phone too.


6 posted on 04/28/2013 10:26:59 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it)
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To: SamuraiScot

He’s saying that he doesn’t buy that someone actually PULLED over to text. LOL


7 posted on 04/28/2013 10:33:24 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

They should fire the head of Boston’s FBI, and replace him/her with Danny from China.


8 posted on 04/28/2013 10:34:19 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: penelopesire

ping


9 posted on 04/28/2013 10:36:08 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: null and void

Regardless if he did or didn’t pull over to text - the idea of consciously leaving his phone in the car with the forethought of it being used to locate the car, is quite a stretch.

C’mon, the dude says he was scared, trying to figure his escape opportunity, they want me to believe that during the moments he had to flee, he actually figured leaving his phone behind would aid the cops? Really? It’s already been established that his vehicle has some new tech device that would allow the cops to find it.


10 posted on 04/28/2013 10:40:11 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; OwenKellogg; bunster; thouworm; maggief; onyx; nutmeg; AllAmericanGirl44; ...

Boston Bombing Ping!


11 posted on 04/28/2013 10:41:43 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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Thanks Ernest.


12 posted on 04/28/2013 10:47:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
left his iPhone in his Mercedes...to track them.

I doubt he LEFT his iPhone intentionally. I suspect that they took it from him at some point.

13 posted on 04/28/2013 10:49:49 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

How could the car jacking victim have been in their company for an hour and a half, then escape, leave the phone in the car for the police to track and then the police tracked them to pretty much the same neighborhood they started in?????

Wouldn’t they have been an hour and a half down the road????

What did they do for an hour and a half???

Why was the green honda that belonged to the terrorist at the shootout with the high jacked suv???

None of this makes sense. We are not being told the truth. Duh!


14 posted on 04/28/2013 10:52:30 AM PDT by theycallmemom
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

Perhaps. He does work in high tech as an entrepreneur, perhaps he’s worked on or invested in an app that uses tracking as one of its features. I have two on my own phone, Star Walk which needs my location to know what parts of the sky I can see, and GasBuddy, which locates nearest and cheapest gas stations.

Anyway, if he spends many of his waking hours thinking about ways to make money with the locator function, it’s not unreasonable that he would think of this particular use under other, more stressful, circumstances.


15 posted on 04/28/2013 10:54:41 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
More and more cars sold here have an OnStar type feature.GM,BMW,Mercedes and Toyota offer such an option,and maybe other manufacturers as well.With this option the police can track the vehicle's location *exactly* as it moves or when it's standing still.GM’s version,OnStar,can even be used to disable the vehicle while it's in motion.And of course iPhones and at least some Android phones can be tracked too.
16 posted on 04/28/2013 10:56:10 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: theycallmemom
We are not being told the truth.

Of that we can be certain!

17 posted on 04/28/2013 10:56:11 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: Travis McGee
They should fire the head of Boston’s FBI, and replace him/her with Danny from China.

I like the cut of your jib, sir!

18 posted on 04/28/2013 10:58:42 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Background checks, Mr. President? You first ...)
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To: null and void

you can always use the voice to text function


19 posted on 04/28/2013 11:01:11 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: stuartcr

That would put a severe crimp in my pun function.


20 posted on 04/28/2013 11:03:10 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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