Dumb luck criminal

Imagine you got brazen enough to snatch someone's iPhone from them in broad daylight. Now imagine that you finally got up the nerve to do it and grab someone's iPhone from them and speed off on your bicycle. Look at how clever you are. No license plate to trace you. Unfortunately for you, nine minutes later the police have found you and have hauled you back to the scene of the crime, where the victim is waiting to identify you as the thief.

Little did you know, you just happened to grab the one iPhone that was being tested with a new software GPS application that makes the phone hard to steal, because it tracks the phone's every movement to within metres of its location on a live map. That's exactly what happened in this story.