It may not always be a good idea to track down that stolen phone: Jeremy Cook, 18, was shot to death in London, Ontario, for trying to track down his misplaced cellphone.
Cook had accidentally left his phone in a cab, so he used a geolocation service to pinpoint where it had went. It turned up in a parking lot on the northern end of town…. When he arrived, he was met by three men in a Mazda sedan.
Police found the car abandoned nearby, where it had crashed into a fence and telephone pole. Cook’s missing cellphone was still inside, the whole reason for this unfortunate ruckus.
The suspects are believed to be three black males who are believed to between the ages of 18 and 21.
This is the first time area police have had to deal with violence on this scale for a case of a missing phone. “Nobody could ever predict that what occurred was going to occur in that case,” London Police Constable Ken Steeves told CBC News.
Even if they’re able to track the thief down via apps like Find My iPhone, he encourages people not to take many risks in getting lost cellphones back.
“If you suspect there’s any potential for violence at all, we certainly encourage people to contact police. We’d be more than happy to come out and investigate with the hopes of retrieving the phone,” he said.
Source: The Daily Dot
“If you suspect there’s any potential for violence at all, we certainly encourage people to contact police. We’d be more than happy to come out and investigate with the hopes of retrieving the phone,” he said.
Unless you deal with Irish Police. I lost my Iphone 4s, which at the time was worth about 650 euro. I actually showed the location of the mission phone to the officers at the police station. They said that ‘search warrant’ is required for this kind of operation.
They asked me ‘If I know how serious it was?’ and that they can’t search houses, because the infomation on the map is not showed in details. Goodbye Iphone…