Find my iPad turns up English rugby legend's missing tablet

Nice. Another reason for me to get an iPhone. Every smart phone I have I loose. You are not making it easy for me. Must switch very soon... =P

There are actually places in the world where one could leave something in a public place and not have it grow a pair of legs. Japan comes to mind. As much as I love the USA, it's a sad fact that something left in public is generally as good as gone. If the person who turned it in to the police picked it up intending to so do, I give them kudos. Unfortunately, these days it's much more likely that it an iPad would be picked up by someone intending to keep or sell it. I wish people had a little more honor, maturity, and self respect than to take someone else's stuff, but there still are good people in the world. I'll give this guy the benefit of the doubt, but don't assume it couldn't possibly be theft.

Will Carling was a good rugby player but not the sharpest pencil in the box, as his tryst with Princes Diana many years ago will testify!! Who leaves their iPad on a train Knobhead!!! Stolen not quite but if you found one would you hand it in? I probably would as i know the pain of losing one would be to me!!

'Stolen' after leaving it on a train ... ?

Hardly sounds like a case of theft; how does the guy know that they're not already headed to the station police to drop it off. And then he tweets about it as if it's a cat and mouse game. Sounds like a drama queen to me.

Glad he got it back though ...

I, too, recently found my iPhone4 by using Find my iPhone. We tracked it, like super sleuths, walked up to a house, rang the bell, heard the loud noises we set it to do and asked for it. Luckily, they gave it back without incident. These "thieves" did not turn it in where it was lost (in a CVS)! Amazing technology!

Wow. To be honest I would never push a "you are being tracked" message to my iPhone if it were stolen as I should imagine it would be immediately turned off and then wiped at the thief's earliest convenience.

What I would do is take my 6'5" disgruntled ass down to the blinking dot on my screen and start whoopin'.

Why would you send a message to the "thief", which in essence tells him/her to shut off the ipad/iphone or to switch off the tracking signal?

thief is a bit much, as it was stated he left it on the train. it's not like it was stolen off his person, or property.

though it is cool to see the recovery of devices in this manner.