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Phone Thief Responded to Call from Police

Brian Westerfield approached a man in a Nampa, Idaho Walmart store who had just bought a smartphone. He grabbed the phone and fled.
He got away the first time but when the victim and police got together they came up with a plan to call the stolen phone and talk to the man who took it.

"The suspect didn't know that he was talking with the police," Sgt. Mike Wagoner said. "(They) dickered over the price for the phone and so when the suspect did show up the police obviously where there to meet him."

They arrested him after he tried to run he tripped and fell face first onto the ground.

It apparently didn't occur to Westerfield to wonder how the "buyer" got the phone number when he didn't yet know it himself. http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/113142469.html -via Gizmodo

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Something about interacting with the cops causes an awful lot of people to trip and fall, sustaining injuries. I wonder if they have some sort of top secret paralyzing ray that can't be seen or felt and your legs just go numb immediately?
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Unless it was an unlocked phone, most likely the vendor already programmed the phone with the phone number (and most likely it was the buyer's old phone number) so it's no surprise that the victim here knew the phone number.
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@ Gitai, I think thats an approximation, it's not considered good enough for high accuracy experiments where they work in sub micro-gram ranges.
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figures some American would be the first to rip this.
I am pretty sure your military uses the metric system and they are as "good American" as you can get!
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Vandoo- Yes, Chris is either a fool, or he's simply joking, or he's trying to goad folks into posting the typical anti-USA comments. Most Americans use both metric and US standard measurements, and all scientists use metrics daily. There is no "contest" between them here in America.
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"mmmark" has gggood cccomments. American engineers have no troubles (except for NASA and its subcontractors maybe) working in all kinds of mixed units. I'm used to seeing pressures expressed in psi, Pascals, bar, inches of mercury, inches of water, atmosphere, etc. You deal with them all and it's no biggee.

As for the kilogram standard... I am in favor of anything that removes this from the custody of the French. There is no telling when they might get invaded again and lose control of the kg prototype, Think what could happen if that were to fall into the hands of the wrong people! Now who is going to invade Australia? The New Zealanders? not likely...
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