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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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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!
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.