Another "good boy, trying to turn his life around" takes a dirt nap.

[gh1950]

The whole phone theft thing is silly-- just like being tied to particular plans and carriers via long-term contracts, the American consumer is about 20 years behind much of the rest of the world.

Phones can be trivially blacklisted in about 30 seconds nationwide, all carriers. But the carriers can't make money off the new owners then, so they haven't implemented the blocking in the states. They did in Europe in the early 2000s and cut phone theft like 95%. Now if stolen, they have to be shipped off to the third world somewhere or they don't work. Your average thug has no way to sell into that market, so loses interest in stealing phones.

If the public would ever demand blacklisting, directly or via congress, this problem would vanish overnight. The technology is trivial, it exists, and costs basically nothing, but there's no pressure to implement it.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong...

You're exactly right.

The technology has been there for 20 years.

Every time the FFC moves to make locking mandatory it's THE CARRIERS THAT OPPOSE IT. Stolen phones are a profit center for them from replacement phones and "insurance" fees. One of those things, that as they say, you can look up.

 

[Edog537]

That is some real MAGA! Punk Bitches!

 

[zamoramax]

Good bye, any more volunteers?

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[Rolling_trip]

Only sad part of the story is that one lived. Wish he would have killed both of them

Maybe not sad. It might be better to leave a survivor to tell his boys, folks are fighting back.

 

[timbgtm]

I love a happy ending.

What kind of idiot expects a dog-walker to have valuables with them?

A fatally stupid one, I suppose.

Oh he had some valuables with him alright, a finger attached to it!

 

[Kahrnut]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dek...en-attempting-to-rob-him-police-say/609118176

 

[Hayata]

Sounds like a good shoot.

Too bad he didn't get both but the fact he got one during an armed robbery is VERY admirable!

 

[shootsacanon]

Seems like we're hearing a lot of drive-up-and-rob-a-pedestrian stories lately. Is this the new thing, or been around awhile?

 

[Psilloh1]

Only sad part of the story is that one lived. Wish he would have killed both of them

Where I come from They say.... "Ya missed a double"...

 

[Torn]

Where I come from They say.... "Ya missed a double"...