A Kansas farm girl has no trouble finding her runaway dog, because the dog is microchipped and she uses an app to find it immediately. She gets home long before a cold front hits and is safely in her family's storm cellar when a tornado blows by.
Getting on an airplane for a massive family trip, parents realize that they have left one child behind. They FaceTime him to tell him to sit tight until a neighbor arrives. They also track him on their Find Friends app, so that they know he's safely at home the entire time.
A North African bar owner is not the slightest bit surprised when his ex-girlfriend and her new love interest arrive in his establishment because she had posted on Facebook that they were coming. The plot thickens when she changes her status from 'in a relationship with Victor Laszlo' to 'it's complicated.'
Man buys exotic pet as a gift for his child. At 11:59 PM, the automatic reminder on his phone chimes to remind him not to feed it anything until morning.
Servant girl goes to fancy ball and falls in love with wealthy member of royalty. When she flees before midnight, he is able to quickly find her by texting her the next day.
FDA alert about tainted fish comes up as push notification on the airline app. Flight crew pulls fish from meal service. Plane lands uneventfully.
Amusement park app quickly informs family that it will be closed during their planned visit dates and so they move their trip back until the park reopens.
Boy has bad dream about Godfather. Texts said Godfather, who confirms that he is just fine. Boy goes to class instead of running off to save Godfather.
Nazis steal researcher's book. Fortunately, he took pictures of the important pages and has them on the cloud, so they don't need to run off to Berlin to get the book back.
Prophet leads his people into the wilderness. Although he's tempted to leave them for a moment, God sends him a list of rules in the form of a YouTube video and he plays them for his followers on his tablet and they all calmly follow them.
Five high school students get detention. After the principal leaves them in the library, they spend eight hours playing games and looking at Tweets and Instagram posts.
Woman traveling alone in rural California checks Yelp and Trip Advisor only to find bad reviews on creepy looking motel. After reading 'Owner talks to mother we never see' and 'No Wifi', she decides to stay elsewhere.
Husband of murder victim posts ad on Craigslist titled 'Buxom blonde seeking one-armed psychopath' and quickly catches his wife's murderer.
Small town police chief quietly texts his deputy, who arranges for an entire armada of large boats to assist the Chief in the waters off Massachusetts.
British super-spy is well prepared for villainous counterpart because his special weapons expert saw sword-brimmed hat for sale on Ebay.
Man looks for phone booth to change clothes in- but there are no more phone booths, so he changes in an alley, where an 8 year-old takes a photo resulting in the man's immediate arrest. All of city's crimes go unsolved.
Ex-con and his brother launch Kickstarter campaign to save orphanage, then send money to Cook County Assessor's Office via Paypal. They then return to their musical careers without ever drawing the attention of law enforcement, country singers or Illinois Nazis.
Three college film students go into a forest to investigate old ghost stories. They get creeped out, decide to leave and Google Maps immediately leads them back to their car.
When a slave army is defeated by the Romans, they refuse to give up the identity of their leader, but the Roman commander just looks him up on Wikipedia and finds a Wikimedia Commons open source photo of him.
Woman and her son get trapped in car by rabid dog. Woman calls local dog warden. Woman later gets trapped with her son in McDonalds drive-thru because he just HAD to have this month's crummy plastic Disney toy.
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