Man Steals iPhone. Man Takes Photo. Man Emails Photo. Man Gets Busted.
One of my favorite quotes from the West Wing went something like “no amount of law enforcement money or manpower can equal a criminal being stupid”. Today’s case in point, via the New York Post, a man mugged a woman for her iPhone, used it to take a picture of himself, used her email on her iPhone to send his picture to his own email account:
“I checked my e-mail and saw something in my outbox,” she wrote on the Japanese-language blog. “I knew I didn’t send anything. “I opened the attachment, and there he was with his black and red knitted [Spider-Man] hat. The same hat I described to the police officers.” She sent the photos off to cops who combed through mug shots and quickly zeroed in…
So there we have it. iPhone 1. Crime 0.
(And this is before Apple’s rumored iPhone 3.0 “Find My iPhone” Feature!)
(Thanks to msproductions for the tip!)
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The stupidity of some people just baffle me!
what a mug. why?
Queue the Music from the old COPS Cartoon Show
COPS
Yeah, passcide locking would have screwed her over in the long run. It’s kind of like not wearing a seatbelt saving your life.
Awesome! I love these stories.
lol idiot, I wonder how he will spin that in jail
Funny!
OMG! LOL “What’re you in for? Murder. Hey guy, what are you in for? Stealing an iPhone.” XD
Funny how the criminal is allways Black…….
Oops sorry Its politically incorrect for me to say that.
Im now branded a racist for pointing out a fact i.e the number of Black people committing crime is disproportionate to the number of black people in society. Massivly, oh and globally aswell not just in the US.
shame on me
@Dread Props: Oops… you might be more racist than you thought.
“there he was with his black and red knitted [Spider-Man] hat”
Saw ‘black’ and jumped to conclusions a little quickly did we? The article says nothing of the man’s skin color. Shame on you indeed.
Actually I saw a pic of the perp on iPhonealley.com and yes the man was a black male…coincidence? What did you expect?
Haha! This remind me of the story a few years back where someone stole a Sidekick, took photos with it, and the guy was able to track down who did it and the cops didn’t do anything. Guy started a blog and the support got overwhelming and NYC police got a black eye for not doing their job. I remember reading the blog as the story was unfolding…
I’d prefer being able to engage an “iPhone Self-Destruct Mode” killing whomever is holding it. This punk should be dead, not taking up jail space.
Sorry Editor, just to clarify I clicked through to the newspapers article prior to posting and saw the pic in question and indeed he was black.
Im no racist (I have friends and colleagues of all races), Im just not scared to state facts.
Certain ethnic minorities are disproportionally represented in Prisons.and even though Im in a 70% white country Everytime me, a friend or a family member has been affected by crime the criminal has been black.
thats a fact yet society makes feel wrong for saying it with this whole where all equal garbage…… err in my real life experience were not.
Anyways rant over back to iPhoneness please
Dead Props, what exactly is your point? You cant make statements like that and completely ignore phenomenons like institutionalized racism and the disparity between white/black conviction rates. Can’t believe you goaded me into responding, but you clearly have a lack of knowledge about race, history, and the relationship between poverty and crime. Let us hope that you don’t procreate.
Back on topic, I LOVE this story! Glad the woman was able to recover her phone.
I agree with with Dread and I’m a Hispanic male. It’s not a racist opinion it’s educated statement…
So back to the subject, if an iphone is stolen can’t someone put it on recovery mode and set it up as a new phone?
“Funny how the criminal is always Black” how is that an educated statement..lol.
The same exact thing happened to me. Unfortunately I was “smart” and immediately had the service turned off and changed my email password to avoid having my accounts compromised. I could have saved myself $500 if I just let the asshat play with it.
Karma is a b****
how is poverty an acceptable reason to commit crimes. Everyone has a choice. And based on the figures there are some groups of people that seem to make the wrong choices more often than others. Why? Maybe these groups feelthey are owed something. Idk. The fact still remains..a wrong choice is a wrong choice. And it is definately wrong to me stealin da IPones
Same exact way a lady at work found her stolen iphone. 15 yr old dumb criminal LOL.
Isn’t the first words out of a racist mouth, “I have friends that are black,” or n this case, “I have friends and colleagues of all races.” This is a blog about iphones and not your views about black people. I’m sure fox news has a blog where u can post all of your racially motivated comments.
@dezee
Wrong, and wrong. Thanks… but no. you’re wrong.
@ Dread Props You said: “Funny how the criminal is allways [sic] Black…….”
You are indeed a racist when you make comments like that, since they are clearly not supported by facts, as this would mean that there are no non-black criminals.
It’s fine to point towards factual evidence concerning relative disproportionalities with regard to race and crime. But that is not what your initial comment does, and therefore your reasoning to support your comment is critically flawed.
Think a second before you do stuff. Kinda puts you on par with the mugging emailer..
“how is poverty an acceptable reason to commit crimes.”
Who said it was? The point is not that being poor means it’s okay to steal, the point is that poor people are obviously more likely to make the choice to steal, and so if a certain group is more poor than most groups, of course they are going to have higher crime rates. It’s not racist to point out the fact that crime rates among minorities are high – it’s racist to imply that the reason for this is genetics.
And who said genetics was involved? Certainly not me. People are grouped in a myriad of ways. That is all that I have pointed out. And “crimes” is not limited to stealing.
Upon reresding your last post. You say “of course they are going to have higher crime rates”. Sounds, again, to me as if it is expected. And again I say that should not be an excuse. Not matter what group were speaking of.
Of course it’s racist what you stated Dread Props.
“Funny how the criminal is allways Black…….”
Does it even need to be discussed if he is or not? If you say yes, just read the quote above till you change your mind.
Tanks
Some people don’t get it. They never will.
Look guys stop flaming me here. Am I not allowed to say an opinion based on what I see all around me and read in the papers or see on the TV news everyday?
You can all be as politically correct as you like and try to pretend your all saints whatever, but most of your arguments don’t change my mind.
Where I live there’s a middle class estate bordering a poor neighborhood. There is a real mix of people here I’d say 45% white, 5% Chinese 25% black and 25% asian. Given that wealth etc is the same and we are all equal then roughly speaking if 10 crimes are committed I’d 4-5 perps should be white 2-3 black and 2-3 asian.
Not 7-8 black 2 white or asian!….. . Why am I racist for saying this. I only brought it up because I read the story, thought “bet the perp was black” even though based on the population of the US there are many more white people so odds state the perp should be white, and what do you know – it was a black guy!
I’m getting tired of watching the news and seeing that out of all of the stabbings, shootings, muggings, robberies and assaults the perps are 90% black. I live in a white country ffs! what’s that all about!
but just like on this website I’m not allowed to mention this – after all, were all equal all have a comprehension of right and wrong and have free will to choose our courses of action – the fact that the majority of crimes in my area is committed by blacks (and it appears this happens everywhere else as well) is obviously just a weird coincidence then isn’t it?!
Believe it or not I am not racist. I do not judge people based on their skin colour! There are good and bad people of all races. Go Obama! etc It just seems that most of the bad people in our society are black. I get angry when if a cop stops and searches more blacks than whites all hell breaks loose with the politically correct brigade.
The cop ain’t racist its just that they do more crime.
Anyways some of my Black friends agree with what I say and feel these criminals are giving them a bad name. I’d have to agree but neither them nor me can come up with valid reasons as to why it is, poverty no excuse, no father figure no excuse, etc
Im sorry if I offended people, My initial comments were a bit strong Im just frustrated thats all.
I won’t post this kind of thing again
Dread props=drop dead nobody cares about your “unpoliitically correct” opinion on an iPhone blog. Take it to limblows blog.
Yeh man, you right! Black people are all filty thieves, mexicans are prostitutes and White people pedophiles, everytime I see a pedophile it’s a White dude! Ah yeh and for myself I’m Muslim so obviously you’ve already figuered out what I am guilty of… All colors are guilty, all people are equal! Also, it’s funny how you midle class iPhoners see the world through your touch screens, makes me wanna go back to my good 3310. One love!