{"id":26664,"date":"2020-01-06T08:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/06\/apple-watch-shows-man-lied-about-being-stabbed-in-anti-semitic-attack\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T10:30:52","slug":"apple-watch-shows-man-lied-about-being-stabbed-in-anti-semitic-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/apple-watch-shows-man-lied-about-being-stabbed-in-anti-semitic-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch Shows Man Lied About Being Stabbed in Anti-Semitic Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.27.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;]<strong><em>Faizel Patel &#8211; 06\/01\/2020<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 26-year-old Michigan man in the US has been arrested after his Apple Watch revealed he was lying about being a victim of an anti-Semitic attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Cult of Mac, Sean Sammit claims he was attacked outside the synagogue where he works, but the heart rate monitor on his Apple Watch told a different story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigators combed through surveillance video but were unable to find any evidence of any attack and Sammit&#8217;s story could not be corroborated by any potential witnesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities soon became suspicious, and asked to examine Sammit&#8217;s Apple Watch in order to analyze his Health Data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Apple Watch continuously records the wearer\u2019s heart rate as long as it\u2019s on their wrist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police say they used this data to help show Sammit faked being attacked. It showed his heart rate did not spike at any time around 7pm &#8211; the time he claimed the attack occurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to The Jewish News Sammit then changed his story to claim he\u2019d lost consciousness while doing dishes and accidentally stabbed himself, but his Apple Watch heart monitor didn\u2019t indicate a loss of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sammit finally admitted he\u2019d faked the whole thing in an attempt to get out of his work contract with the synagogue.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s been charged with filing a false police report, and resigned from his job.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faizel Patel &#8211; 06\/01\/2020 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143) A 26-year-old Michigan man in the US has been arrested after his Apple Watch revealed he was lying about being a victim of an anti-Semitic attack. According to Cult of Mac, Sean Sammit claims he was attacked outside the synagogue where he works, but the heart rate monitor on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p><strong><em>Faizel Patel - 06\/01\/2020<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p><strong><em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 26-year-old Michigan man in the US has been arrested after his Apple Watch revealed he was lying about being a victim of an anti-Semitic attack.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Cult of Mac, Sean Sammit claims he was attacked outside the synagogue where he works, but the heart rate monitor on his Apple Watch told a different story.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Investigators combed through surveillance video but were unable to find any evidence of any attack and Sammit's story could not be corroborated by any potential witnesses.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities soon became suspicious, and asked to examine Sammit's Apple Watch in order to analyze his Health Data.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Apple Watch continuously records the wearer\u2019s heart rate as long as it\u2019s on their wrist.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police say they used this data to help show Sammit faked being attacked. It showed his heart rate did not spike at any time around 7pm - the time he claimed the attack occurred.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to The Jewish News Sammit then changed his story to claim he\u2019d lost consciousness while doing dishes and accidentally stabbed himself, but his Apple Watch heart monitor didn\u2019t indicate a loss of consciousness.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sammit finally admitted he\u2019d faked the whole thing in an attempt to get out of his work contract with the synagogue.<br \/>He\u2019s been charged with filing a false police report, and resigned from his job.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Apple-watch-400x250-1.png?fit=400%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-6W4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 07:57:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}