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'Thief' steals coat from Manchester bar... they weren't prepared for what happened next
08.03.2024 - 08:50 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A man who claims hisAirTaggedcoat was swiped from a Manchester bar tracked down the suspected thief and recorded it all on TikTok.
Ben Gransmore claims his £300 North Face coat was pinched from the cocktail bar Mojo in the city centre on Saturday night (March 2).
Unbeknown to the suspected thief, Ben claims he had AirTagged the coat and was not going to be giving it up without a fight having already had three coats stolen during nights out in Manchester.
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The following day Ben, 29, took matters into his own hands and claims he traced the coat to an address in Wigan using the AirTag. The amateur detective jumped in the car with his pal Henry Jones, 28, in tow to retrieve it.
The pair, who both live in Deansgate, filmed the journey and posted the footage in two parts on TikTok. The first video, which has now racked up more than one million views, went out on Tuesday (March 6) and the second was released the next day.
The caption for the first video reads: “Someone stole my jacket from a bar in Manchester and thought they could get away with it... but I had an AirTag in it."
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, Ben said he decided to put an AirTag in the coat after falling victim to multiple thefts.
“I’ve been out in a few places in Manchester and I have a group of friends and it’s always my coat that gets taken. I’ve had three different coats stolen from different bars and was fed up. I end up spending more than £300 on coats every month so I thought I’d AirTag my coat,” he said.
Recalling the night the coat went missing, he said: “We were
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