Coachella Phone Thief Caught With Over 100 Phones

This guy stole over 100 phones during the first weekend at the Coachella Music Festival 2017 and got foiled by Find My iPhone!

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00:00 A man from Queens, New York was arrested at Coachella after being found with 100 stolen

00:04 cell phones jammed in his backpack.

00:06 The thief was apprehended with the help of that app Find My iPhone, which I've used plenty

00:10 of times to help me find my iPhone when I leave it in the car.

00:13 I got it here today though.

00:14 So all these cell phones, over 100 cell phones, are in this guy's backpack at once and all

00:19 these people are using Find My iPhone.

00:21 So it's vibrating all over his back.

00:23 I think that was the whole point of this.

00:24 He just wanted like a nice back massage.

00:26 Maybe not.

00:27 I don't know about all these phones, but I'm going to stick with the back massage thing.

00:31 Interesting thing about this story, people are celebrating this guy.

00:33 You know when your cell phone gets stolen, it feels very violating.

00:37 You know, you feel weird.

00:38 But when it happens to over 100 people at Coachella, people just call you a hero.

00:43 Cartier Burgundy tweets, "He didn't risk his life to save our timelines from hundreds of

00:47 Coachella pics to call him 'man.'

00:49 His name is Rinaldo de Jesus Genao.

00:52 Hero."

00:53 And then Gershberg, attorney at law, also tweets, "Hero.

00:56 Would represent.

00:57 Pro bono."

00:58 Huge waste of your time.

01:00 Don't do that.

01:01 And this guy thinks the cell phone thief hasn't gone far enough.

01:04 He tweets, "A real hero would shut down internet and cell phone service within a 5-mile radius

01:08 of Coachella."

01:09 Well, these guys seem to be a blast to hang out with.

01:12 What do you guys think?

01:15 Misguided phone thief?

01:16 Social media folk hero.

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