That article was just now posted, but a similar thing happened several years ago at my Dad's funeral. The "other" sibling and her brew were there -- not so much for the funeral, but to divvy up the estate.....even though Mom was still very much alive! Well when Dad's funeral was over, her youngest monster...er...a...."boy" picked up a phone sitting at the rear of the church.
When the owner realized the phone was missing, she panicked. Then her son (a 'good' kid!) said he knew how to find it for her. He got on another smart phone, opened up a program that apparently came with those phones, and just like the article described, a google map came up with a blue circle. Map was supposed to be accurate to within about 5 feet....maybe 5 yards; can't remember now, as this was wayyyyy back in 2014.
The blue circle was showing to be in a Walmart parking lot about a mile from the funeral home. They followed the map and then came upon a truck sitting all by itself in that parking lot. It was the other sibling. That bunch seemed quite upset that they were being accused of stealing the phone, and put up quite a fuss. Then the owners said the sibling could either hand over the phone, or have the police get it from them. That's when it was learned the little monster....er, 'tyke' in the back seat had seen it laying there and chose to take it and play games, take photos, basically using it as his very own, and right in front of dearest moomy and doody -- who I'm sure knew it was a hot phone since their kid didn't own one.
When the "kid" relinquished the phone, he told how he saw it just sitting there on the last pew. Obviously it was a runaway and had no owner, so was fair game for him to take.
Even after being caught red-handed, dear Sis, in EXTREME protest, kept shouting out that her son was NOT a thief! ....The owner of the phone? The wife of the owner of the funeral home.
It should be noted that no portion of this story has been made up or exaggerated.
So, I know that finding phones in that manner has been around for at least several years. I suspect that it's possible on any smart phone that has GPS enabled.
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