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Burglar Uses iPhone As Flashlight, Accidentally Records The Crime

Posted October 28, 2012 1:33 PM

From CNet News:

If you're going to burgle a house, iPhones can be very useful.

Sadly, for 23-year-old Emmanuel Jerome, his iPhone was useful to the police as well as himself.

Being of evidently subtle mind, Jerome decided not to turn the lights on at a home he and some of his friends burgled. Instead, he apparently used his iPhone as a flashlight.

Perhaps because his fingers were shaking with excitement or because his subconscious was desperate for him to be caught, he pushed another button too -- which ultimately plunged him into a painful darkness.

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10/29/2012 1:40 AM

As they say, "There's an App for that."

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10/29/2012 7:52 AM

We seem to forget we are in a new age. A friend had a son fired from his job with an oil company and was venting his spleen by removing a few tools before he left in the middle of the night and the security camera looked shiney so he got a stool and took it. He got five to grow up in..

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Re: Burglar Uses iPhone As Flashlight, Accidentally Records The Crime

10/29/2012 8:01 AM

He's not the bloke wot approached said camera, took off his ski mask and put it over the camera, is he? They've got cameras in the pokey, too. Didn't try to steal one of those? (certain in-laws come to mind....)

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