'Honey, I Stole Your Cell Phone!' Outer Mission Man Traces Purloined Cash to Ex-Girlfriend With a Call.

​One of the only nice things about losing a cell phone is that these devices are somewhat easier to track than other misplaced belongings: All you have to do is make a call and see if some good Samaritan, kleptomaniac, or watchful barkeep picks up. Heck, most of us have been there.

But most of probably don't get the kind of answer that a resident of the Outer Mission District did yesterday. According to a report from the Ingleside Police Station, a man returned to his home on Florentine Street to find that his spare house key had been moved. He went on to discover that $2,500 was missing.

We'll leave it to the resident poets of the Ingleside cops' PR apparatus to tell the rest of the story: "The victim called his cell phone which was answered by his ex-girlfriend who claimed to have taken both the phone and the money." (Ouch. Ouch.) "The victim did not know where the suspect was."

This Labor Day weekend, Snitch readers, keep your spare keys hidden and your cell phones in hand. And if you do find an errant mobile strewn on the beach or at the campground, try to be friendly when the erstwhile owner gets in touch.

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