Even if the thief was to sell it on, as soon as his unsuspecting buyer turned it on, the rightful owner can be directed to the device as easily as navigating with his in car GPS in an instant.

This is exactly what happened only yesterday to Mark Travis, a local college student at CALTECH who had his iPhone pinched at the weekend in Mission Delores Park.

For several days he used the iPhone App to see if he could get any tracking signal but to no avail. Then, finally the signal was caught, and he and his friends jumped into his car in hot pursuit.

They eventually tracked the device down to a Starbucks on Market Street, where an unsuspecting Buyer was testing the iPhone to make sure that it worked before purchasing it from the very thief who had stolen it off Mark. To Mark’s horror, the thief was someone he knew quite well and was among the group of college students who had met up to enjoy a weekend sunny day in Dolores Park.

The unnamed thief (bastard!) had pinched the iPhone under their very noses, had even helped try and look for the iPhone when Mark’s mysteriously went missing from the picnic rug.

He then advertised it on Craigslist for a quick anonymous sale. Or so he thought.

Just happy to retrieve his iPhone, Mark just simply walked up to the unnamed (b*****d!), took the iPhone back and walked out. Leaving a red faced loser and a confused buyer holding cold latte’s.