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Re: Cops give up but mobile phones work

An interesting use for mobile phones!!!

UPI / JOSHUA BRILLIANT (C-upi@clari.net) wrote:
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: 	TEL AVIV, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- An Israeli dentist who fears police will  
: not act to retrieve his stolen cars says he has found an alternative way 
: to get his vehicles back: mobile phones. 
: 	Thieves twice made off with his family's cars, but each time he got  
: the vehicles back after negotiating with the thieves over the mobile 
: phones in the cars. 
: 	The dentist, Arieh Raviv of Ramat Hasharon  
: northeast of Tel Aviv, says in a television interview the burglars first 
: made off with his wife's car, a Fiat. 
: 	``I went to the police station, dialed the mobile phone and the  
: thieves answered,'' he says Monday. They offered to return the car for 
: $6,000. 
: 	Raviv asked the policeman near him to talk to the culprits, but the  
: officer laughed him off. ``You're wasting your time. Hang up. I'll give 
: you a letter for the insurance,'' the policeman reportedly told Raviv. 
: 	Raviv paid and got the car back. But two weeks later thieves drove  
: off with his Volvo. 
: 	This time Raviv didn't call the police. He phoned his car. The  
: thieves ``didn't trust me,'' he recalled. Their accent sounded Arab, so 
: he asked a Palestinian friend to help him out. 
: 	The friend made the calls, then reported: ``I praised you. They're  
: willing to do you a favor.'' The ransom-- another $6,000. 
: 	The insurance agency advanced the money and Raviv passed it on to the  
: thieves through his friend, fearful for his safety. His friend was 
: nervous, too. 
: 	``He didn't sleep all night,'' Raviv relates. ``He and his children  
: guarded the money. In the morning, accompanied by relatives and armed 
: men, he made the transaction and brought the car to the border.'' 
: 	Asked what he would do if he had another car stolen, he says: ``Make  
: sure there is a mobile phone in the car.''