Dude, There’s Your Car! Cell Phone Technology Helps Find Missing Lexus
After forgetting where he parked his Lexus RX, a senior reaches out to a local news crew. Privacy settings on a cell phone unlocked the mystery.
The local news crew from Washington, D.C., station WUSA Channel 9 came to the rescue of a Lexus owner after he traveled to the D.C. area during a busy holiday weekend and then forgot where he parked his car. Out-of-town visitor Leonard Faircloth was in town to celebrate the Fourth of July but being unfamiliar with the city and distracted by the festivities, he forgot the last whereabouts of his RX 350. Leonard, a 71-year-old military veteran from Illinois, called upon his family to help find the car, and that’s when they got in touch with WUSA news.
Every modern smart phone has GPS technology built in to help with things like navigation, social media check-ins, emergency services and so forth. That technology is what Bruce Leshan from WUSA used for turning over the right rocks to find the Lexus. As invasive as it sounds to have your location constantly tracked, this very same technology was pivotal in looking at past locations and eventually finding the exact parking garage where Faircloth last left his ride.
Faircloth was relieved to find that the parking garage is waiving his parking fees due to the mix-up. However, D.C. parking enforcement still left a parting gift in the form of a $250 citation. Hey, all things considered, that’s a small price to pay to get his Lexus back.
