You maybe getting the point there. This incident sounds a lot like an inaccurate Wifi locating result.

Or someone in a large stolen-phone operation has been using a randomly picked MAC address to confuse the Find-My-Phone softwares. That's a lot easier to do.

I bet someone at Google or Skyhook could look into the Mac address to see if there are any abnormalities for that particular one.

I really hope Sherlock Holmes will be there to resolve the mystery.

Yup, it's BSSID.

I took my router with me when i moved back home from university (and i changed the SSID first thing). For about a year my iPad would think it was still at university, and sometimes when i used it to chat with friends on Facebook they would reply "Oh, you're back in town?? Come visit!".

They are modifiable in software too...