Singapore teens rob cabby of $3.60, leaves iPhone behind - CNET

If you're going to rob a cab, it's perhaps best not to leave any evidence behind, or if you do, and it happens to be an Apple iPhone, don't go to the police for help in locating it, because that's how you get arrested and put on probation.

And if this all sounds made up, it really happened to three Singapore youths who thought they had the perfect plan. After boarding a cab and telling the driver to take them to a skate park near a tourist attraction, the youths then assaulted the driver and made away with a coin pouch containing S$5 ($3.60, £2.5 AU$5) before realizing one of them had left his iPhone in the cab.

The one who lost the phone then decided to make a police report to claim he had been assaulted and had his belongings stolen, presumably to hide the fact that he wasn't the one who left it in the cab. He and his buddies were arrested later that day. Two youths were given two years probation for their misdeeds, while the last is waiting to be tried as an adult.