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It is not emergency situation and in some city you would end up in big trouble/fine.


Being robbed is not an emergency situation?


No risk to life and limb.

Emotionally or psychologically it is significant but that's the traditional bar and blindspot.


Stolen phone -> access to finances (through password reset emails/SMS or just apps on the phone) -> no ability to pay for medicine/healthcare -> death.

Stolen phone -> post offensive things to users Twitter account -> fired from job -> lose healthcare -> death.

Stolen phone -> send violent threat against police posing as phone owner -> SWAT team shoots on sight -> death.


This feels debatable to me. I wouldn't at all be upset if someone pulled the emergency stop cord in that case. Getting hundreds of dollars robbed from you on the <whatever> is a big deal.




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