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Utrecht resident, Martijn van Es, was able to track down the thieves who stole his mobile phone thanks to a link between the phone and photo-sharing website Flickr, the Volkskrant reports.


Van Es was surprised to see photos of two strange boys appear on his Flickr homepage – and used the photos on his weblog to track them down, the paper said.

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