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How Plan B found the Droid [Jon] was looking for

Imagine for a moment that you are hundreds of miles away from home and you’ve just stepped out of a taxi at the airport.  After you watch the cab drive off,  you reach for your phone and realize…it’s gone!  A few weeks ago we received a remarkable story from a writer named Jon Barrow who experienced this exact situation and was able to use Plan B to track down his beloved device:

“A small seed of optimism sprouted as I read the Android Market description for Plan B from Lookout Labs.  A remotely installable app that would instantly e-mail me the phone’s location?  It sounded too good to be true!”

On Ars Technica, Jon gives every detail of what ended up being a “16-hour game of cat-and-mouse, spanning half the country and involving a cast of disinterested bureaucrats, helpful strangers, and one witless would-be criminal.”

Be sure to check out Jon’s extremely humorous story on Ars Technica, complete with images documenting the entire ordeal.

If you have a “find my phone” story about how Lookout (or Plan B) came to the rescue for you, we’d love to hear it!  Please send your story to superusers[at]mylookout.com.  We look forward to reading your stories.