This Friday, my iPhone was stolen. The last time I remembered seeing it, I put it in my bag. Whether it fell out or it was taken out of my bag isn't the issue at this point. The fact that someone found it on metro and took it home with them is what baffles me. In 2011, you must be a flaming idiot to think phones don't have GPS on them.
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| Find My iPhone App searching for a location |
Which brings me to the post. Folks, protect your stuff. Why? Because other people want what you have and they are willing to take it and make a profit off of it. In my case I had a pass lock on my phone. Not because I thought anyone would steal it, but because people are nosy as hell and I'd prefer to give people access to my phone than have them all up in my business. I also had Apple's Mobile Me- Find My iPhone app.
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| Find My iPhone App finds the location of my iPhone 4 |
If you own an iPhone and you don't have a pass lock or the Find My iPhone app installed, you're a flaming idiot. Those two things will protect your phone from losers who like to steal iPhone 4's and sell them for $400-500 on Craigslist. Not to mention, it protects any sensitive information you may have on the phone. In the event that the phone is stolen, you can get the phone's location whenever it's turned on, send a message (usually prompting the thief to call a number and return the phone), it sets off an alarm for 2 minutes and you can remotely lock and/or wipe the phone. Now if you wipe your phone, it will disable the app and you'll be unable to locate it, so only do that if you're 100% positive that you're not getting the phone back.
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| The Craigslist posting that the kid had up (found it doing some personal detective work) |
In my case, I was lucky. Blessed really. Some kid was planning on selling my phone and luckily his mom found out about the phone, told him he would not be selling it and she saw my message which had her name on it (after I did some detective work online). She ended up calling my dad and he went over there to retrieve the phone and gave her $40 as a gift ($40 that I now owe him which is WAY better than $500, I'll drink to that).
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| Police need to do their jobs. |
Needless to say, the app got my phone back with no help from the stupid police. I'm sorry if your friends or family are in the police force anywhere, but those bastards don't do anything. It was an open and shut case and no one wanted to deal with it. Not only did people give us the run around, they sent us to different police forces and no one was of any help. The thing that pissed me off the most was the fact that they basically said, yea if you don't see someone take something from you it's not theft. What the hell is wrong with this freaking country????
The only people that saved my phone were APPLE (thank you, I'm officially your customer for LIFE) and that lady who was probably told by God to give the phone back to me (thank you for having a conscience). It was my first experience really trying to use government services and they failed us. No wonder republicans are over "big government" and don't want to pay taxes. Y'ALL DON'T DO ANYTHING. They wasted our entire Saturday honestly.
Needless to say, I got my phone back within 48 hrs. I hope the devil is keeping score because every weekend God keeps showing off with touchdowns and field goals. I'm just saying...
MB
PS: I definitely appreciate my phone now more than ever. Don't ask to touch it for awhile, I'm bonding with it again. LOL. (not kidding)
