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Posted on 03/03/2018 9:16:05 AM PST by Swordmaker
SAN ANGELO — Becca Blackman Wilcox couldn’t drive fast enough.
She floored the accelerator of her 2016 Dodge Charger up to 91 mph, rushing to the safety of a police station in Brady, Texas.
A few feet behind the 45-year-old’s car, headlights trailed, flashing in her rearview mirror.
At 7:37 p.m. Feb. 24 the mother of nine had called 911 thinking the driver of the paper-tagged maroon Ford Explorer was intoxicated.
But 20 minutes later, Wilcox was fearing for her life.
Earlier that day Wilcox stopped at a San Angelo convenience store on her drive from New Mexico to Copperas Cove.
“There was nobody else in the store except the clerk and there was only one man getting gas,” Wilcox said. “I don’t know exactly when it all started.”
After buying fuel, Wilcox traveled east on Highway 87 toward Eden.
About 15 miles outside Eden the Ford Explorer got on her tail.
“I was only doing 74 mph. There were four lanes of traffic and I was in the slow lane, and I couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t passing me.”
She changed lanes. The Explorer changed lanes. The Explorer passed Wilcox, then slowed below the speed limit and again got behind her car.
Then “he got up right along beside me ... turned his dome light on and looked at me,” Wilcox said.
When the Explorer began moving into her lane, Wilcox called Concho County 911 and described the vehicle and its driver — white male, early to mid-20s, dark hair, scraggly goatee.
At 7:57 p.m. Wilcox’s iPhone 7 rang. She didn’t recognize the number.
“I answered (the phone). … The voice on the other end was real crackly. (He) said, ‘Becca? It’s Jason. I’m behind you. Pull over.’” Becca Blackman Wilcox
Wilcox hung up and hit the accelerator.
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Yeah, it would be a grabber, wouldn't it. They'd have to make it a longer drive, though, and add some rear-end bumping. . .
Or have a 1911 and go ahead and pull over and if needed take the offender out while on the phone with 911.
Well....now we know where “Q” went to.
Women alone, especially in unknown areas, are always vulnerable to stalkers and freaks. Its a fact of life.
Being a pretty large guy, of course I never experienced anything like it, or thought about it, until similar incidents happened to my wife and some female colleagues.
I had my phone with me but I never used it. In fact, I never use it for directions.........
Evidently there is something in the phone that allows Google to track my every movement......
location services. turn them off. now.
Sounds like a broad brush smear campaign of AirDrop without any facts to back it up. AirDrop is incredibly useful in our household and we use it frequently. Our computers have to be within about 10 feet of our phones for it to work - BlueTooth is seriously attenuated by simple stud and sheetrock walls. It may work for 30 feet in open, unobstructed rooms, but not through walls.
It broadcasts your name and (apparently) a hash of your phone number. Anybody can find my name in a gazillion public records.
There’s something else going on here.
LOLOL...I thought he was called to his junior high homeroom, but that’s a good theory, too.
both iPhones and Androids will track your location and ping out every once in a while. This can be turned off in both phones in your settings. If you’re in a particular area long enough it’ll register and notify google or Apple. They use that to target ads at you.
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I get those All the time.
these are not the droids you are looking for
how dare she defame the fruity religious icon. the b*tch probably had it coming, anyway. mother of nine? sounds suspicious.
Airdrop is a red herring. People can send you files but you have to acknowledge them on your phone before recieving and can disallow it. There’s also no real personal information given out through the airDrop name. Although it’s always funny getting on an airplane or going out in public and then sharing a picture or link and seeing dozens of nearby users pop up.
You should definitely have your airdrop configured to only recieve from contacts.
It IS possible to have equipment to see all cell phone activity in an area and he could’ve had that. That number plus seeing her name on AirDrop would be enough to do it.
As for being compromised - he obviously did that far earlier.
A fraud of an article. It is not about an “iPhone setting” as the headline lyingly blasts. The skillfull writing serves to ramp up the suspense, but gives us no trustworthy information. We are genuinely afraid for her, and ready and willing to blame her danger on the iPhone. But it’s not the iPhone that is the source of the danger. It’s possibly an app, called AirDrop.
The writer of the article is just a typical incompetent journalist trying to make a buck, so this is not surprising.
I always keep the Bluetooth off and the file sharing setting off to stop data transfer.
OK, I think I did but I got a pop up that warns that it may affect other functions on my phone
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