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Stolen iPad's Reported Location Not Enough To Warrant Search, Say Dutch Police
lbalbalba writes "A location message sent from a stolen iPad by an anti-theft application turns out to be insufficient evidence to issue a search warrant for the Dutch authorities. A Dutch man reported his iPad as stolen to the Dutch authorities last month. Despite the fact that the rightful owner was able to locate his iPad within hours of the theft, thanks to the anti-theft application he had installed, the Dutch authorities did not issue a warrant to perform a search. According to the prosecutors, a search warrant is 'a very heavy measure,' that should only be used when there is 'sufficient suspicion.' The theft report by the owner was viewed as 'no objective evidence' in the case."
Here they walk in and take all your meth, instead.
A man notices that burglars are trying to break into his garage. He calls the police who tells him that they don't have any police officers available at the moment.
A few minutes later he calls the police and says that they don't need to bother because he just shot the burglars. The telephone operator is horrified and several police cars quickly arrive at the man's home and they catch the unharmed burglars red handed.
"Didn't you say that you shot the burglars?" one police officer asked.
"Didn't you say that you didn't have any police officers available?" the man retorted...
Don't call the police.
Unless you're a cop or family member of one. If this was a cop's personal iPad, and not John Q Publics, the story would of read something like:
"Dutch police and SWAT team raided an apartment early Wednesday morning over stolen goods. The thief was shot multiple times after an iPad with a 'gun-sounds' app installed, was mistaken for a real weapon. As a routine measure, all cops have been placed on paid leave, pending an investigation. No other stolen items were recovered."
In Holland, like in most of the civilized world, people don't have pistols in their nightstand.
And then you wonder why you get your iPads stolen.
In Holland, like in most of the civilized world, people don't have pistols in their nightstand.
Really? I never realized that nightstands were so scarce.
You never really know how close to the edge you can go until you fall off.
Of course the next thing that would happen is the police arrest the homeowner for filing a false report
What false report? I 'shot' them with my camera. You know, to help identify them later.
or abusing 911 resources
??
or wasting police officers' time on a crime of low priority
I tried to tell your dispatcher that I had taken a picture of the thieves, so they didn't need to worry about coming out at all. I had ::snicker:: no idea that it would make you show up faster.
A friend of mine in California had his house broken into. His iPad and a shotgun were stolen. He tracked the phone to the trunk of a car, told the police, and they did nothing.
Perhaps they were skeptical because he seemed to believe that either his iPad or his shotgun was a phone.
No, the 100,000 people in the USA weigh 67.34% more.
I'm an engineering consultant -- if I make a mistake, my customer won't go to me next time, they'll go to my competitor.
If the polices makes a mistake, who do I go to next time? The Mafia?
"the story would of read something like" This makes no sense.
The writer obviously speaks a somewhat different dialect of English than you do. Here's a translation to a somewhat more widely-known dialect:
"The story would have read somewhat like ..."
Anyone have translations to other dialects? Some people have rather limited understanding of English, and can read only a few dialects; we should be nice and help them out in cases like this. ;-)
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
While the people in Holland have 75% less Glaucoma but 80% more cravings of munchies.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
There are no statistics for burglaries per square miles here in The Netherlands. We use the metric system.
The point is that America is big, like our penises.