GPS Catches Phone Thief Red Handed - Allegedly!
Date: Wednesday, October 19 @ 08:04:19 UTC
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Source: Annanova
A Bulgarian customs officer who stole a gadget-packed phone was caught when its owner, the US Ambassador, activated the GPS program.
Ambassador John Beyrle activated the phone's GPS - Global Positioning System - to locate it in the officer's pocket. He was travelling from Varna to Hungary when his mobile phone went missing while his hand luggage was being x-rayed.
Airport staff searched for the device, but all the customs officers claimed that they hadn't found a phone. But the high-tech device was equipped with GPS and the Ambassador just had to open his lap-top for him to see the exact position of his phone within the customs officer's pocket.
The man and his accomplice have now been arrested, and both face the sack as well as malpractice and theft charges.
Editor's Note
As always with such stories its difficult to seperate the truth from myth, what isn't explained is why a US Ambassador was passing through customs in the first place nor how a GPS enabled phone managed to get a signal whilst not only inside his pocket but also presumably inside the airport building. Nor how the laptop was able to access the GPS data from the phone! And how the signal was so accurate that they were able to identify the culprit purely from the GPS position?
It's more likely that they assumed the phone's rough location and then just rang it, the ringing noise emanating from the culprit's pocket would have been all the evidence they needed!
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