During the Seattle 2020 "events", I was walking by then started hearing loud noises all of a sudden. Turns out, thieves had broken into the nearby Apple store,

During the Seattle 2020 "events", I was walking by then started hearing loud noises all of a sudden. Turns out, thieves had broken into the nearby Apple store, taken many iPhones and then the "stolen" signal was somehow pushed into them, making them make a loud sound and show a "this is stolen" kind of popup on their screen. The thieves just dumped the stolen iPhones on the ground probably to avoid attention from the cops.