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Teen Thief Caught After Accidentally Dialing 911, From His Pocket

by Warren Riddle on April 7, 2009 at 04:19 PM



Most of us have embarrassingly pocket-dialed someone before, and some have even accidentally hit the emergency call button on our cell phones, but a Peoria, Arizona teenager allegedly took dialing mishaps, and stupidity, to a whole new level last week. The 16-year-old delinquent apparently broke into a car, boosted its stereo and a Cricket cell phone, and then met up with fellow rapscallions to heroically detail his plundering exploits. Unfortunately, for the teen thief, he somehow managed to call 911 from his pocket.

During the call, the teen brags about yanking out the bolted-down stereo, and the subsequent ordeal of lugging it down the street, for an entire 15 minutes. This provided the police with ample time to triangulate the call and locate the mentally-challenged crook. Perhaps the best part of the recording occurs when police arrive on the scene, and you can actually hear them confronting the boy and alerting him to his mysterious emergency call. Either that, or when his friends make fun of him for stealing a Cricket mobile phone instead of a BlackBerry. Note to Cricket: You may want to alter your teen demographic marketing strategy.

You can hear the 15-minute call in its entirety thanks to The Phoenix New Times. Keep in mind, though, that the first four minutes are mostly unintelligible, and there are a few coarse words. One aspect of the story that does leave us with a sliver of doubt is the fact that, in order for it to be true, a teenager would have had to go 15 minutes without calling or texting anyone. Would a jury seriously believe that? [From: CNET]


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