funny current event

http://www.telegram.com/article/20090107/NEWS/901070289/1116

A police officer in Virginia used google to track down a 9 year old girl that was kidnapped by her grandmother. The girl's name was Natalie Maltais, and she was kidnapped by her grandma on Saturday. Her parents called the police and they began an investigation. Natalie called her parents who let her talk to the police also, letting everyone know that she was OK and that her grand mother would be turning herself in the next morning. The police waited and the grandma didn't give herself up so they continued their investigation and decided to track down the girls cell phone. They got the GPS coordinates from the cell phones tracking device, and began to try and figure out where the girl was. The police found a general location and then typed that place into google, and came up with the exact hotel where the girl was with her grandmother. The police then arrested her at that hotel and returned the girl to her parents.

I think it was pretty clever thinking for the cop to track the girl down using google. This is also a really good example of just how helpful all this new technology is.