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Anyone have experience with any of the Iphone tracker apps? Have you had accuracy issues? We just got back from an 8 day vacation in Ruidoso. The night before we got back a police officer showed up at my house at 1am saying they had tracked a lost/stolen iphone to my house. We had a friend staying at the house taking care of our pets so they were here when the officer came by that night. The house sitter didn't get to our house until after 11pm that evening but the phone was already showing at my house early that evening.
Some girl had laid her phone down at Super Target and left the store without it. She came back later looking for it and it was gone. She activated the tracker app using her boyfriends phone and it shows my address as the location. The officer said he was told the tracking was accurate to within 3ft. He specifically asked about my car in the driveway because the app was showing the phone dead center in my driveway. My car hadn't moved in 7 days so obviously it wasn't in the car. That officer dismissed it and filed an incident report.
We have since gotten a phone call at 2:30am from a friend of the girl who lost her phone saying they know we have the phone and they will keep calling until we turn it over. The kid that called is actually an old highschool aquintance of my daughter who recognized our address and had my daughters contact info. About 10min before that phone call my neighbors doorbell rings and he comes out to find his house teepee'd. So we call the PD again and they send another officer out. She asks us to call the number back and the officer talks to the individual who called earlier. The officer tells him to stop harassing us, it wasn't his phone so he had no business being involved, the tracker apps are inaccurate, they have now been to the house 3 times and are convinced the phone is not here. The punk then asks for the officers name and badge number and proceeds to argue that her 3 digit badge number is incorrect because all badge numbers are 6 digits. This has become a major hassle over total bullshit. What options do I have to end this crap?
I am shocked that the PD will waste time on a call like this where the 1.99 app is directing them to a phone that was originally lost and not stolen. I am worried now about retaliation because I am positive they were here last night and teepee'd the neighbors house.
Some girl had laid her phone down at Super Target and left the store without it. She came back later looking for it and it was gone. She activated the tracker app using her boyfriends phone and it shows my address as the location. The officer said he was told the tracking was accurate to within 3ft. He specifically asked about my car in the driveway because the app was showing the phone dead center in my driveway. My car hadn't moved in 7 days so obviously it wasn't in the car. That officer dismissed it and filed an incident report.
We have since gotten a phone call at 2:30am from a friend of the girl who lost her phone saying they know we have the phone and they will keep calling until we turn it over. The kid that called is actually an old highschool aquintance of my daughter who recognized our address and had my daughters contact info. About 10min before that phone call my neighbors doorbell rings and he comes out to find his house teepee'd. So we call the PD again and they send another officer out. She asks us to call the number back and the officer talks to the individual who called earlier. The officer tells him to stop harassing us, it wasn't his phone so he had no business being involved, the tracker apps are inaccurate, they have now been to the house 3 times and are convinced the phone is not here. The punk then asks for the officers name and badge number and proceeds to argue that her 3 digit badge number is incorrect because all badge numbers are 6 digits. This has become a major hassle over total bullshit. What options do I have to end this crap?
I am shocked that the PD will waste time on a call like this where the 1.99 app is directing them to a phone that was originally lost and not stolen. I am worried now about retaliation because I am positive they were here last night and teepee'd the neighbors house.
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