A Toronto woman says she used Apple’s Find My app on her iPhone so that Quebec police could track down her Apple AirPods after an employee at the hotel she stayed at allegedly stole them during her stay.
Sahar Mohammadzadeh stayed at the Impéria Hôtel & Suites in Boucherville, a suburb on Montreal’s South Shore, during the Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend last June. Just before checking out on June 20, she said she noticed her Louis Vuitton purse and some cash were missing after leaving the room. She said she then went to the front desk to report it, but claimed the staff were “incredibly unhelpful” and did not take responsibility for the theft.
“And at that point, I went back upstairs to my room and I kind of Googled, like, what do you do in a situation like this? Because again, I wasn’t getting any help from the hotel. And the first thing that came up was to call and make a police report, which I did,” the 28-year-old said in an interview.
She realized her AirPods were also missing. When she opened the “Find my” app on her iPhone, she could track their location on a map.
She said she felt “completely vindicated” when she saw that the AirPods were still active at the same hotel she stayed at on Montarville Boulevard because she had suspected a worker had taken them. Then she noticed over the next few days, the device kept showing up at the same two locations on her screen: the hotel and at someone’s home…
On Nov. 29, she got some good news. The officer emailed her to let her know the stolen AirPods had been recovered after executing the search warrant at the person’s home.
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MacDailyNews Take: “Shockingly, criminals are stupid.”
Yes, if this criminal had the brains to relocate to Apple’s home town he could walk into an Apple Store and steal 4 sets of AirPod Pros and just walk out and the police and the local prosecutor would tell the Apple Store to stop wasting their time with theft reports. Stealing up to $1000 is actually promoted by law enforcement in California. Get your best deal by just stealing them in California. Or NYC. Or Detroit. Or any major US city with a progressive Democrat government. These places are very sensitive to the needs of those who want Apple but prefer not to pay.
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