It seems as if not having the latest Apple iPhone or Android mobile can be a positive thing — at least when it comes to cell phone muggings.
Last Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, New York resident Kevin Cook and a friend were mugged at gun point in Central Park for their cell phones and other items. After Cook obeyed the robber and surrendered his third-generation Windows phone, the robber quickly returned the cell because it was a flip phone.
“Once he saw my phone, he looked at it like, ‘What the f–k is this?’ and gave it back to me,” Cook reported to the New York Post.
About 40 percent of robberies in major American cities involve cell phones, the Federal Communications Commission reports. Stolen phones are then resold in the $30 billion dollar underground business. Apple products are the most sought after.
Cook’s incident isn’t too uncommon. Last year, two Columbia University students were robbed for their cell phones. The assailant quickly returned their phones because they were Blackberrys.
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