Thieving taximan

olestoepoke wrote: »

This is ridiculous, really there is nothing they can do?

It's not that ridiculous really

https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19297?locale=en_US

Apple saying themselves its approximate. It also depends on phone masts, wifi quality, and even weather.

Or if you open Google maps on your phone, sometimes it shows me in the house a few doors down, or next door. Or have you ever been on holidays walking somewhere and the dot is not calibrated?

What if the phone shows in a building that contains 50 apartments over 5 floors, which one is a search warrant gotten for? Or a hotel?

Find my phone is part gimmick/ part luck. Might be useful if you're in a public street and you walk to the location and see someone with it. Not so useful if it shows a building with numerous people in it/apartment with many different floors and residences/ house beside the actual house it's in.

Also not useful if it's been turned off, and is only showing the last (approximate) location, when in fact it's now in a CEX shop/sold to a randomer and has a new sim and has been wiped.

db wrote: »

If he kept it and didn't return it, that's theft.

Is it?

i think we should find the taxi driver stone him and then lynch him then burn out his taxi kill every generation of his family and dance on their graves.

I'm a taxi driver and I always give stuff back.

When I was getting a new van a few years ago I was cleaning out the old van and I found an iPhone 6 which was the newest at the time and it had a Verizon SIM card so it was someone from the US. I charged it up and the sim was deactivated and no message to say call this number or anything. Then a message popped up and said phone hasn't been backed up in 28 weeks or something like that. Oops!
I tried to give it back even still but couldnt. Apple website just said contact your local police station.
Anyway the reason I posted this is to show how easy these things can happen and nearly all drivers will try to get stuff back to the owners so don't judge till you know the story!

pablo128 wrote: »

That's good to hear, and I'd like to believe most people would be the same.

As usual it's the actions of a few that give the rest a bad name. In the OPs case, I think he got a bad one. Having known many taxi drivers from my days as a mechanic, I know only too well there are some dodgy ones around.

Really I have had 1 bad experience with a taxi driver not to do with a theft but did not believe all taxi's were the same. Are you sure its just not 1 person giving a sweeping generalization

PatsyJ wrote:

No.

But it can still be traced while turned off