A George Washington University student used an unexpected tool to track down his stolen iPad: his stolen iPad.
Hugo Scheckter had several items taken from his dorm room last weekend, according to the Washington Post. He filed a police report, but what really helped him nab the crook was a program called MobileMe. It’s a tracking device Scheckter had installed on his iPad, the Post reported.
Sure enough, the program pinpointed a house in Landover, Md., where his computer was moving from room to room, the Post explained. He tweeted throughout the entire ordeal:
"Currently tracking my iPad. It's in Maryland. Police won't go after it though, and don't really want to drive there and f*** them up."
Seems hard to believe? Police felt the same way.
"Police were skeptical when I told them exactly where my iPad was -- the address, the room in the house,” Scheckter told the Post.
They weren’t skeptical when they finally went into the house Monday and found the stolen iPad.
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And what better way to celebrate finding a stolen piece of high-tech equipment than to use a high-tech form of communications: Twitter. Scheckter tweeted: “Just picked up my iPad from the [police] station!! Pretty awesome!”
