(Photos: Pop-Up City)
This modified Ford E250 van is the main customer service port of Safe 'n' Secure Cellutions, a business in Brooklyn. Jhonn de La Puente, the owner, established the company to cleverly exploit an everyday market that most people might not consider.
Most American teenagers have cell phones, but many schools do not permit students to have cell phones on campus. La Puente parks his van outside of a high school in the morning. He offers to hold students' cell phones inside his van until they pick them up from him in the afternoon. The service costs $1 per phone. La Puente typically holds 100 phones per day.
No, there's nothing creepy at all about that van parked outside a school. Nothing at all.
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Being ancient and not having children, I am unclear on the concept. Why don't the kids just turn off their phones while at school?
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Totally not looking at their naked selfies. nope, not at alllllllllll.
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This seems like a terrible idea. There appears to be 100% access to the phones for the guy in the van. He could pull information from their phones while he has them, or install malware on them that will give him access to information at a later date.
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Why not save a buck and just leave the phone at home? Who do they need to call anyway, when all their friends are also at school with them?
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