She said the robbers were bold taking her husband’s phone, but then giving it back because it wasn’t to their liking.

“They basically looked at that phone and was like ‘Oh, that’s an Android? We don’t want this. I thought it was an iPhone,’” she said.

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    where do these stories come from? did this uber driver get robbed, report it to the police, and feel so offended that his android phone got rejected by the robber that he decided to call up some news station about it? because i’m trying to process the train of thought here between the robbery and alleged rejection and this news story being published. all i can think is that some online news editor believed it would generate a lot of clicks, but i’m still stuck on how some robbery victim who got their phone rejected for being the wrong brand thought it might feel the need to contact a news station about it.

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      The reporter tracked down the victims and did an interview. Found out what happened and used the odd fact as a basis and title for the story.

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      Perhaps the victim posted something on social media about the robbery, which was then picked up on by a journalist.

      To be honest it is a rather bizarre situation to end up in, being rejected by a robber for not having good enough loot.

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      Also doesn’t even make sense since iPhones (honestly most phones now) are so well known to be easily remotely bricked by the owner, that stealing it offers little to no benefits.

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        From what I understand, they can be disassembled, and some of their internal parts are valuable on the black market