Tracking the Lost iPad

Shiv has been traveling for the 12 days, he took a cab and reached home from Oakland International.

He usually tries to get unwind himself straightway. Home made food was awaiting for him. After small exchange of pleasantries, he went to bed early. 

As we were asleep and in the middle of the night, we found him awake in the very early morning with lights switched on in the rooms and hallway. Both Shiv and Shilpy were trying to look for Shiv's iPad. 

As Shiv traced his activities backwards, he felt that he had left the iPad in the Cab which brought him home from the Airport. 

So as the day progressed, he called the Airport Taxi people to find out if the same was in the lost and found enclosure. He also tried to track the whereabouts of the Taxi driver. The operator promised to help and revert to us to pass on the feed back.

Famous Scott Restaurant at Jack London Square, Oakland California

In meantime, he used his 'To Find Phone' app to track the iPad. To his surprise he found that the iPad was parked in 5536 Lawton Ave and he came running to wake me from my slumber that he has traced it and wanted me to accompany him there to retrieve the same.

This place was about 30 minutes away from our place, we took the directions and started heading for the destination. He also passed on the message to inform the message board that this iPad was lost and belongs to Shiv available on  his mobile number. As the pad was password protected, no body else could use it though. He also came to know that it has only 6% of battery life left as shown below:

He waited for half an hour but could my get not get any response but to his relief he came to know that somebody has put it on recharging its batteries at the same location. So as long as the batteries are not dead, he will continue to get the information of the movement of the iPad.

It continued to charge at the same location. He continued to track iPad. By now it has charged 15 %, when we reached the location. It was a big relief.

As we knocked at the door and have bell, no body answered the bell. 

And now we decided to lodge a complete for the loss of the iPad. We completed the formalities through our mobile while awaiting the response. We were too near and too away from our property which was hardly lying 100 ft away but could not hold it. An email confirming the approval of the complaint was received through email. In the absence of no response, we had no option but to came back. The Oakland Police instructed us to call them as they will stand by when you ask for your property. Before proceeding back, Shiv kept his visiting card at the door with a note that he knew the property was inside the house and requested him to call his phone so that he can pick his iPad. That message should scare him to death, thanks to the apple technology, he cannot escape this trap.

So finally the driver called us to tell that he has the iPad as he was unaware of Shiv's contact, hence he could not inform us. He requested us to get back for picking the iPad in an hours time as he had to sleep for a while.

Now the scare came, the iPad stopped getting charged and started moving to another place and after 4-5 miles gets parked to a new place. 

So we decided to proceed to Oakland again. Oakland is notorious for bad elements and guns are the call of the day, mostly the people are scared to go there even during the broad day light. 

Family members warned us to be doubly careful in picking a place for meeting the driver. Shiv decided to go to Jack London Square as he had been there for a lunch of his Board meeting.

Now we called him again and again without response. Even the movement of iPad was not being traced. Shiv decided to send him a SMS to respond immediately. No response what so ever.

After another 10 minutes, we sent him strong message to call us back in 10 minutes otherwise we shall be constrained to take further serious action.  

To our surprise, an immediate response came telling that he was fast asleep and will be there in 5- minutes to hand over our property.

We picked up a bright spot with people around and asked him to come there. Finally a all came that he will be there in 30 sec and we found a red colored taxi approaching us and there he was. He simply handed over the iPad and Shiv handed over twenty bucks to him. He never deserved it as his intentions were not at all fair. But the curtesy demanded it and even a potential thief got rewarded.