That setting requires users to enter their iCloud usernames and password to disable the tracking software, sign out of iCloud or erase and reactivate your phone -- all things thieves would definitely want to do to resell the phone.
"Leverage" Season 5 premiere Sun., July 15, 8 p.m. ET on TNT There are plenty of cop shows on TV, but for those who like to see things from the thieves' perspectives, this show sets up new heists each week.
Use Common Sense Security Measures: Try not to make things easy for thieves by showing off your phone in public places where it can be snatched, or by leaving it visible inside a car.
The Holland Tunnel had its Hollywood moment, too: "Daylight," a Sylvester Stallone disaster film that imagines the thing destroyed by diamond thieves.
Crime dramas have moved on from Guy Ritchie-esque romanticising of Cockney gangsters to portraying a Ukip fever dream of multicultural criminality: there are too many examples to list, but 2002's Dirty Pretty Things (illegal immigrant organ thieves), 2007's Eastern Promises (Russian sex-traffickers) and this year's Hyena (Albanian gangs) are among the big-screen ones.
Though, to be fair, a 'no alcohol in January' declaration did once nearly make it to February (an unfortunate fall amongst thieves ruined things on the 27th); however, a regularly wished-for moratorium on swearing holds a shameful record of just 43 minutes.
To make things even easier for thieves, this cash is left in a mailbox that's exactly the right height so the thief doesn't even have to get out of his car (his stolen rental car).
"Supermarkets get all hot under the collar when people thieve things; why can't photographers and their agencies?" At the same time, professional photographers are being squeezed from both ends.
According to food bank client Alan McNickle of Salisbury: I have slept rough for a period of time and even served a jail sentence for thieving things, just to survive.
