{"id":521957,"date":"2010-04-09T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004321"},"modified":"2010-04-08T23:46:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:46:13","slug":"its-almost-worth-having-your-iphone-stolen-just-so-mobileme-can-track-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/521957","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Almost Worth Having Your iPhone Stolen Just So MobileMe Can Track It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/iphone-thumb-158x103-39110.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>People can steal your iPhone, but if you&#8217;ve got the Mobile Me app, you&#8217;ll be able to track it down. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/news\/strange\/news-article.aspx?storyid=154273\">Florida police used the feature<\/a> to track down a swiped iPhone and other stoolen goods, First Coast News reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/06\/man-uses-new-tracking-feature-to-hunt-for-stolen-iphone.html\">This kind<\/a> of thing <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/man-uses-technological-detective-work-to-recover-stolen-iphone.html\">isn&#8217;t so rare<\/a>, but is funny every time.<\/p>\n<p>From the First Coast News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A signal from a stolen iPhone led detectives right to a man suspected in two Alva car burglaries Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies were called to 2200 Troyers Lane early Wednesday by Adam, who said two cell phones and two chargers were missing from his truck.<\/p>\n<p>(Adam) said he&#8217;d parked his truck around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and forgot to lock it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, if only they&#8217;d make Mobile Me for car keys and remote controls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/news\/strange\/news-article.aspx?storyid=154273\">Florida Police Use iPhone App to Track Crook, Stolen Items<\/a> [First Coast News]<br \/>\n(Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemanbandgd.com\">Justin<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People can steal your iPhone, but if you&#8217;ve got the Mobile Me app, you&#8217;ll be able to track it down. Florida police used the feature to track down a swiped iPhone and other stoolen goods, First Coast News reports. This kind of thing isn&#8217;t so rare, but is funny every time. From the First Coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}