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Watch out the cops can use your cell phone to hunt you down.
Most new phones have GPS chips in them which will tell the police your location within a few 100 yards or meters. But if your cell phone doesn't have a GPS chip in the police can still triangulate your location as the cops did in this case. Man doing yard work 'pocket dials' 911, is arrested May. 24, 2011 10:38 AM Associated Press BANGOR, Maine -- Police in Maine say a man wanted for failing to pay fines accidentally helped officers find him when he repeatedly "pocket dialed" 911 while doing yard work. Police say 29-year-old James Green was using a backpack leaf blower in Bangor Saturday when he kept calling 911 without realizing it. Police Lt. Jeff Millard says officers were able to determine where the calls were coming from by triangulating the signal from Green's phone. The Bangor Daily News says there were two active warrants for Green's arrest for failure to pay fines. |