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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."
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.
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.
The point is that America is big, like our penises.