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Tracking Thieves With 'Find my iPhone'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

An anonymous reader wrote in to say "A friend of mine who just got an iPhone 3GS and has Mobile Me just used the "Find my iPhone" feature to track down his lost and subsequently stolen iPhone. This story involves three nerds wandering sketchy streets with a MacBook, and ends with a confrontation at a bus stop."

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  1. Honkey? by linux_stu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It was a Puerto Rican neighborhood... [people] eyed us three honkeys questioningly.

    Why does he feel the need to refer to his friends and himself with such a racially charged word as "hokeys"?

  2. Am I the only one that wonders by thijsh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... WTF is a Lego convention?