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Here in South Africa satellite tracking of cars is a huge business. There are four or more huge companies that place a hidden tracker device in your car.

They also have armed response teams, up to and including helicopters that will follow stolen or hijacked cars (a big problem down here), and recover them for you.

Unfortunately in most cases the police will not be able to recover a stolen car, because there are just so many of them.

See this article:

A quote from it:
"Over the years we've recovered vehicles from a number of weird places... parked in holes underground, next to large electrical generators, wrapped in tin foil, painted in tribal muti and even one case last year where the vehicle was being stripped in the back of a moving truck.

"However, a fake living room with a wall on a hinge, is a first for us," Crocker said."

Muti is like shaman medicine: you kow, monkey testicles and the like.

I have some more on mobile Linux on my blog...

A few quotes :

"I realise that I'm not going on a joyride, this is not just a question of getting into space. We are kick-starting an African space programme. It is not good enough to simply take Russian experiments; we must give South African scientists an opportunity."

"Of course there is a personal reward, but at the same time the trip will do a tremendous amount for South Africa in the international arena. Also the money I'm spending on this project is not disappropriate to the money I have already spent on other people and that I gave away."

The link to the article can found here.

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