“ONCE he saw my phone, he looked at it like, ‘What the f–k is this?’ and gave it back to me,” recalled Kevin Cook, 25, of Brooklyn, New York. Cook was in Central Park when two armed men held him up. Cook handed over his phone.  “It’s like a 3-year-old generation Windows phone,” says Cook. “I guess he didn’t think he could get anything for it. It’s kind of humorous.”

Photo: ROSE COUTTS SMITH AT A PHOTOCALL TO LAUNCH CELLNET CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEM BRITISH TELECOM MOBILE PHONE SERVICE IN LONDON. Date: 31/01/1985