Flight Attendant Steals Man's i-Pad- Found Using "Find My -iPad" app

I always thought that you could trust your flight attendants, and that if anything was going to wind up stolen on a trip it would be before you boarded the plane. We've all heard the many horror stories about rampant theft by baggage handlers and TSA agents, so I was rather shocked when 43-year-old flight attendant Wendy Ronelle Dye was busted for stealing a Reno, Nevada man's iPad. She claims she intended to give it back, but that's not what police believe, since she had already put some personal info on the tablet.

I've never heard of Horizon Air (it belongs to Alaska Airlines), but Dye was a stewardess on a flight to Los Angeles when the victim left his iPad on the plane. According to Dye a passenger found it on a seat and handed it over to her. She told police that she had every intention of turning it in to Horizon Air officials, but forgot it in her personal bag. Yeah, right. We have one honest passenger and one thieving stewardess who denied, at first, that she even knew anything about a lost iPad.

You might wonder how they even discovered that Dye had the stolen property: the Apple App 'Find My iPad'. It comes with your iPad, and is easy to locate.

Go to Settings. Click on iCLoud, and switch on Find My iPad.

Then if it gets lost, all you have to do is log on to www.icloud.com and  you will find all your information. Click on Find My i-Pad and it will pull up a map with the exact location (I just tried this and there was a map of where I live). If you click on devices, you also have the option of playing a sound, locking it, or wiping it clean.

Luckily, the man had downloaded the app a few days before his flight, so he was able to track her down in Oregon where she was arrested. Tablet and man will soon be reunited.

Dye has been charged with theft and has been suspended while the case is being investigated, although it seems pretty cut and dry to me and she should be fired.

When traveling it's very important to keep tabs on all your possessions, at all times. And thanks to Apple, it makes it easy to recover lost or stolen property.

Source: Daily Mail