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GPS Devices Lead Authorities to Thieves' Home
Radon360 writes "A trio of not-so-bright thieves in Lindenhurst, NY stole 14 GPS position reporting devices used on public works equipment from a nearby township garage. Authorities didn't have to look too far to locate him or the devices, as one of them was still active and indicated the location of his home when it was queried. From the article: 'Town officials said the thieves didn't even know what they had: they thought the GPS devices were cell phones, which they planned to sell.'"
So if the thieves had stolen one less GPS tracking device (as only the one was still on and functioning), the headline would have read:
"Idiot Thieves Somehow Manage to Make Off With Armloads of Location Trackers"?
Someone in southampton, UK not too long ago stole a urinal from a pub; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/62344 45.stm
Bottom line is , people will steal anything. Expecting them to do it in style is a bit much to hope for.
Like diarrhoea.
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I had the face plate stolen off of the radio in my car about a year and a half ago. There were obvious signs of distress in the console around where the radio was mounted indicating the kid who did it had tried to steal the whole thing, but in the end he gave up and just took off with the face plate. What really made things amusing was he took the stub from a ticket to a football game and left nearly ten dollars in change sitting in the ashtray. Talk about not making it worthwhile.
Those whippersnappers wouldn't know a GPS from the GPL. In my day when we wanted to code we had to walk uphill both ways through six feet of snow to get to the computer science building on campus. These damn kids. Get off my lawn!
Tell me about it. A couple years ago, when I was living in a not-too-nice neighborhood, someone broke into my car and took the stereo (which self-destructed on disconnect), the amplifier (woefully under-powered), and the speakers (which were wearing out).
What did they leave? A Magellan GPS unit, mounted in a bracket on the dash, with "GPS 315" printed on it in big white letters, in full view. Five seconds for that one item would have doubled the street value of their take.
Idiots.
The smartest crooks do not violate laws. They MAKE them.
You had buildings that you went to? We had to build new buildings out of punch cards EVERY DAY.
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Punch cards? We had to strip bark from the trees, make out own paper then punch it with our teeth before we could even begin to make the punch cards into a building.
Trees? You were lucky.
we had to create DNA one strand at a time from single atoms by hand and then wait 60 million years for it to evolve into trees.