68 PERCENT OF AMERICANS WOULD PUT THEMSELVES IN DANGER TO RETRIEVE STOLEN CELL PHONE

(May 2014) A study by mobile security company Lookout says that 68 percent of us would be willing to put ourselves in physical danger if it helped us retrieve a stolen cell phone.
– Most victims mourned the loss of personal data, such as photos, corporate email or banking information, and half said they would pay $500 for the return of their data alone, regardless of the return of their device.
* This is nothing. 82% of us would put ourselves in physical danger if it meant free ice cream.
* Relax, once they implant the chips in our foreheads this problem will go away.
* Then we’ll just have to worry about them drilling into our foreheads and taking the stuff.
* How about – if the phone gets stolen – there’s an app that sends all the info somewhere safe and then makes the phone explode?
* From a history standpoint, what we’re seeing is phones taking the place of a man’s horse in the Old West.
* Yeah, that’s it. These are the Wild West days of the Internet and our smart phones are the horses.
* PHONE TOPIC: How far have you gone to retrieve a cell phone? Confronted the person who stole it? Reached into a toilet to pull it out? Crawled into a hole?