Entrepreneur At Coachella Steals 100 iPhones, Forgets About Find My Phone, Gets Caught

Mashable- Some dude at Coachella stuffed 100 stolen phones in his backpack but forgot people can track those things. 

Police arrested New York resident Reinaldo De Jesus Henao, 36, on Friday after several people couldn’t find their phones and wisely activated the “Find My Phone” feature, which pointed them to a guy walking around with a backpack, according to the Indio Police Department.

While someone looking to steal cellphones can probably do so just about anywhere, Coachella seems a particularly easy place to get away with it. People take their phones out to snap photos of artists, and music plus the writhing mass of people at a concert makes it hard to tell when some thief has gotten a little too close.

Look at this haul. That’s an absolute goldmine of iPhones. Just incredible to think how ubiquitous the iPhone is these days. You ever meet someone that doesn’t have one and wonder what happened to them? Like where did their life go so horribly wrong? Good idea by this phone thief, just poor execution. The moment you get that phone, gotta turn it to airplane mode so they can’t track it.

In all seriousness, can you imagine the amount of panic this must have caused? People go to Coachella for one reason and one reason only: to let everyone know they’re at Coachella through Instagram and Snapchat. Girls NEED pictures of themselves wearing those stupid fucking flower crowns, tattered jean shorts, cowboy boots, and vaguely Native American-themed accessories. I fucking HATE it. Snapchat stories clogged to the moon with that flower filter. I know guys have their equivalent stupid shit, but this week really drives me nuts.

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