The owner of the car through the mobile application was able to track the geolocation of the headphones, and at the same time his stolen pickup truck.
To the Illinois State Police On December 23, a man made a statement that his Nissan Frontier pickup truck had been hijacked in 2014. Such statements are common for the city of Galesburg, but it had a completely unexpected end.
The Register Mail writes about the incident.
At the time of the theft, the owner of the car was having a rest at a party. In order not to lose the keys to his pickup truck in alcoholic intoxication, the man had left them in the car before. There were also Apple's wireless AirPods in the glove compartment.
After the party, the man did not find his car in the place where he had previously parked it. Then he turned to law enforcement officers with a statement. At the same time, the man remembered that his headphones remained in the car. The car owner managed to track the geolocation of the headphones through a mobile application, and at the same time his pickup truck.
It turned out that the stolen Frontier was parked near one of the roadside motels nearby. The police together with the owner got to the place that the phone had fixed, found the car, and the car thief was soon arrested.
Recall, earlier it was reported that the American company Apple announced the possibility of self-repair of its devices by the user, for which the manufacturer will do it is possible to order original spare parts not only by authorized services.
