Last week I received the following email from a police detective (I removed his name for privacy reasons) from Maine:

Date: May 28, 2010 1:28:44 PM CDT
To: <sales@biggu.com>
Subject: Thanks

I wanted to let you know that I was able to use ShopSavvy to aide me in an investigation yesterday. I was looking into what may have been the theft of a large amount of copper that was later sold to a scrapyard. While looking over the copper tubing my partner noticed a barcode on one of the tubes. He asked if I could scan it with my phone. I said it wouldn’t work, especially since the sticker was ripped, but I would try it anyway. Much to my surprise ShopSavvy immediately recognized the barcode and identified the product as Wilson Supply #01081 1×10’ copper tubing.

The tubing turned out not to be stolen, but had it been ShopSavvy would have played a big role in identifying the copper.

Here are pics of the barcode and copper.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f95/supaphuzz/IMAG0047.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f95/supaphuzz/IMAG0046.jpg

Thanks for a great app. The workers at the scrapyard thought they were watching something out of CSI when I pulled out my Droid and scanned the barcode.

We get emails like this from moms, dads, students, schools, libraries, but this is the first we ever received from the police.