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Edit : This is blowing up way more than I expected. It’s honestly funny that some of you are taking the time to write condescending comments to a complete stranger just to tell me I’m “wasting my time” over an AirTag. If you’re so concerned about people wasting their time, maybe start with your own. It’s simply a slightly creepy story that I wanted to share to see what other people thought about it, but apparently, the AirTag subreddit is made up of quite a few people who are bored and have nothing better to do than leave condescending comments. Anyways ! If the comments continue to get hateful, I’ll just delete :)

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Hi, I need some advice. For context, I live in the city and I have two cats. They both normally wear a collar with an AirTag on it so that when they go outside, I can keep track of where they are.
A few months ago, one of my cats came home without her collar. I opened the app, and it turned out that the collar was stuck underneath a car. We tried looking under the car, but we couldn’t find it. We waited to see if the collar would eventually move when the car moved.
Several weeks later, I received a phone call at 11 p.m., which I didn’t answer. I then received a message from a woman saying that she had found my AirTag in the street. She sent me a photo, which you can see.
What’s weird is that the AirTag no longer had the collar attached to it, and the woman never said that she had found a collar either.
I told her that I would give her number to my boyfriend because he is the one who has the car and the electric scooter, so it would be easier for him to go and pick it up.
However, it has now been almost three weeks of this woman sending messages like, “Are you available to pick it up tomorrow?” My boyfriend has replied every single time, “Where and what time?” EVERY SINGLE TIME for the past three weeks, and she never replies to him.
Eventually, I got annoyed because I felt like this was taking way too long. So I sent her another message putting a bit of pressure on her, asking her to give me her address so that we could come and pick up the AirTag directly from her.
She replied that she didn’t want to give us her address and that it was perfectly normal not to give out her address. What she doesn’t seem to understand is that, since she currently has my AirTag, I can technically see its location through my phone, which means I could potentially figure out where she lives. I was asking for her address simply out of courtesy, because I didn’t want to show up at her house without warning or without her consent.
After I put a bit of pressure on her, she told us to go to a metro station — basically, we had to get there at that exact moment to pick up the AirTag.
My boyfriend went there, but the woman wasn’t there, so he called her. She answered and, according to my boyfriend, she sounded sad and said, “I’m sorry, the AirTag is in my car, and right now I’ve taken my husband’s car. I’m doing everything wrong, I’m sorry.”
My boyfriend was understandably a little annoyed and told her that it was okay, but that next time, she would have to come directly somewhere near our home to return the AirTag to us, because at this point it was becoming ridiculous. She agreed and told us that she would discuss it with her husband and that she would bring it to us that evening or the following day.
Well, here we are the next day. It’s 9:40 p.m., and we haven’t heard anything from her. She isn’t answering our calls either.
I honestly don’t know what to do. Should I go to the police station? Would the police even do anything about something like this?