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and he kept coming at us and at us. >> torquelson puts down his phone and joins the fight. >> i will pepper spray you. get on the [ bleep ] ground. >> he had a busted lip and i had scratch on my face. the guy looked a little worse off than i did. >> the man is led away in handcuffs and schmidtgal is happy to have his phone. police consideredth two men mutual combatants. no charges are brought. >> the lesson i learned from this is pay more attention to my phone. >> don't just go out and thinking i'm going to get into a fight and get my phone back. that's not at all what we wanted to do. if you are going to go out there and try to get your stuff back, you're going to track your stuff
and he started screaming i don't have your phone, i don't have your phone. i said i've been tracking you. i know you have it. >> they're throwing punches, and he got ahold of his backpack and pulls his backpack off. at this point we still don't know where the phone is exactly. i'm telling him, you know, get on the ground, stop punching my friend. i have pepper spray. i'll go use it if i have to. >> torquelson says the man reveals the iphone, but he is so caught up in the heat of the moment that he doesn't capture this on camera. >> i'm threatening with the pepper spray. he pulls the phone out of his pocket and right there we're, like, that's the phone. >> that's not your phone. >> yeah, it is. i recognize it. >> he gets his phone back, but the fight is not over. torquelson makes good on his threat to use pepper spray. >> when the guy lunged at greg, so we pepper sprayed him, and it didn't keep the guy down at all,
aggressive messages. >> i kept xhanking the message every once in a while like i know where you are. i can -- i know you have my phone. kind of just kept building up until i started to get a little angry about it. >> after four hours of watching his phone ping pong around san diego, the friends decide it's time for action. torquelson, a camera man by trade, uses his iphone to document the search. >> we're like, okay, let's go get this thing. we start following him, and we start going up there, up to -- the beacon was moving faster than something on foot, but slower than a vehicle. we kept driving back and forth. then we realize we keep seeing the same guy on a bike. >> let's pass him one more time. then go. >> pass him up and get out. >> okay. >> i believe he knew we were following him. i think he saw our car pass him multiple times. >> he looked over.
>> with the suspected culprit identified, they call for backup. >> like i don't care. >> if you call police, they start to second out a couple of units and tell us to stay put. we want to look at your skren. we want to see what you are seeing. >> but against the advice of the police, the duo follows the man and torquelson continues to record the pursuit. >> is that him in front of us? >> yeah, it is. >> they're determined to get the phone back, but the man denies stealing it and is set on keeping it. >> we saw him the second time. >> let's go. >> and that's when i got out of the car and told him that he had my phone. >> but he is not able to stop him and gets back into the car. the roommates follow the beacon again. they intercept the cyclist about seven miles up the coast. the encounter turns violent. >> i walked up to him, and i said, dude, you have my phone,