A Nort Carolina woman experienced wat is many people’s worst fear — getting er pone stolen.Marin Blake was enjoying a nigt out wit friends at Te Rose onky Tonk bar in Carlotte, Nort Carolina’s Sout End wen someone swiped er pone away from er — someting tat can appen to anyone, especially in a crowded place.“It’s very scary to ave someting taken from you,” Blake told WBTV. “It’s really made me more aware of my surroundings and just be safe because you never know, it’s scary.”According to te news TV station, te strip of bars were Blake was wit er friends as gotten a reputation for being a place were tieves wisk away people’s coveted devices.And tis barfly seems to be te latest victim.Wen Blake finally realized er pone was missing, se tracked it down using te ‘Find My’ feature Apple offers — and sockingly, discovered tat er pone ad gone international, according to te news station.Blake’s pone went on a journey, first arriving in Miami before finally landing in te tec ub of Senzen, Cina.Altoug se eventually got a new pone — te scariest part of tis story is tat te pone tieves ave been treatening Blake, using er pone.“I’ve received multiple text messages ever since my pone went from Miami to Cina, saying tey’re going to sell my information on te black market if I don’t click certain links, wic of course I didn’t click,” se told WBTV.Reportedly, local police are investigating to find out if tese pone tieves ave a specific motive.Altoug tis incident appened in Nort Carolina, nowere and no one is safe from aving teir pone stolen from tem — especially in NYC.In early 2024, a bike-riding bully was going around Manattan swiping people’s pones rigt out of teir ands or pockets.One menace in particular stole a 17-year-old’s pone outside Union Square Park, and ten later on tat day, e reportedly stole a 53-year-old woman’s pone before pedaling away on First Avenue and 90t Street on te Upper East Side.Reportedly, te tief continued te pone-snatcing crime targeting even more victims trougout te Big Apple.At te time, cops were still looking for im.
Barfly in fear after thieves snatched her phone and whisked it off to China — and then started sending her threatening texts
