“So, you’re sitting on a nearly 800-pound stash of drugs and you’ve got nothing to do,” Ronald O. Carlson reports for Tech.Blorge. “Sounds like a great time to steal an iPad and fill all of those empty hours with a little Apple flavored fun, right? Apparently, that’s exactly what one group of criminals did and the police tracked them down using Apple’s much loved and lauded ‘Find My iPad’ feature.”
“Meth amphetamine, about 780 pounds of the stuff, were discovered in a Palo Alto, California apartment by police tracking a stolen iPad,” Carlson reports. “Quite naturally, the cops were using the Apple tablet’s built-in ‘Find My iPad’ feature, which leverages the device’s integrated GPS and displays its location on a user’s iCloud account page.
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MacDailyNews Take: I hate this “crime doesn’t pay” stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today. – Peter Kirk
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Hahahahahahahaha. Douchebags.
Hmmm…crims, not the brightest facet of a crystal meth stash, that’s for sure.
780 pounds? Any Breaking Bad fans remember when it was a big deal when Walter White was trying to produce 40 pounds?
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Hope we see this on a future episode of “World’s Dumbest.”
Mainstream media has to stop talking about “Find my iP…”. As soon as the dirtbag catch on it’ll lose much of its value.
If criminals don’t know this “FindMy” feature, are we to assume they are Android users primarily? There is a pattern here but not sure how tight the association is.
No, they should talk it up even more. The vast majority of street thieves/robbers are too dumb to figure out how to disable it, so they will learn to avoid Apple products and steal Android phones & tablets instead.
I really hope that Apple make it so you need to enter a Passcode to switch Find My iPhone off in a future iOS update.
‘Darwin Awards’ winner…
dumbass.
Darwin Award winners must either die or be rendered sterile BEFORE they have kids. So this guy was not a winner.
The intent of the Award is to remove stupid genes from the gene pool. If you’ve had a kid, in all likelihood the genes have been passed on.
iPads also make perfect pads to prepare two white lines for your nose, I guess…
Find my iPad feature worked for me when I lost my iPad, back when it was part of MobileMe. Helped my locate a few iPhones, too. It’s probably one of the first things I bring up when people ask me what’s better about an iPhone over Android.
The stupidity of professional criminals never stops to amaze me!
If they were smart they would have got a job asking customers if they wanted fries with that.
Like they couldn’t buy there own- sitting on 35Million? Really?
Did they have the “Find my Meth” app?
In the interests of fairness and balance, Android’s ‘Find My Droid’ app does something similar and does it rather well.
If its called Find my Droid then it’s Verizon only. They have licensed a world wide exclusive for that name from Lucas.
I understand that these criminals are blaming Obama for everything.
Oh, and who the hell would want to steal an Android device anyway?
Maybe the guys who made the mistake of stealing a truck load of PlayBooks?
THis guy is the Crime Minister of stooopid.
Find my Android? Ha! Who in their right mind would want one back?