{"id":347,"date":"2005-04-23T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=347"},"modified":"2005-04-23T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2005-04-23T16:10:38","slug":"the-unfortuante-epidemic-of-snatched-mobiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"The unfortunate epidemic of &#8220;snatched&#8221; mobiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the US, where the theft of a mobile phone virtually guarantees that the device will be rendered permanently useless, mobile phone theft is quite commonplace in Europe and other locales, and some thieves are finding inventive ways of&#8230; stashing their loot.<\/p>\n<p>So far the Guardian has uncovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2003\/04\/14\/stolen_mobile_rings_in_body\/\">not one<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/04\/19\/mobile_phone_thief\/\">two instances<\/a> of women stealing mobile phones and stashing them&#8230; well, where no mobile phone has gone before&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Suffice it to say that a shaken officer Aurel Popescu commented: &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen a lot in my time as a policeman but never anything like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The phone&#8217;s owner has refused to take the device back, declaring it was &#8220;damaged beyond repair and he would be filing an insurance claim.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I probably would too.  Though fortunately for me, my phone is of a <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/vocaro\/\/trevor\/treo-dun\/Treo.jpg\">rather odd shape<\/a> that would end up feeling quite uncomfortable if hidden&#8230; there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone theft is commonplace in Europe, and some thieves are finding inventive ways of&#8230; stashing their loot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}