GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court

MojoKid writes "According to a release issued by Rocky Mountain Tracking, an 18-year old man, Shaun Malone, was able to successfully contest a speeding ticket in court using the data from a GPS device installed in his car. This wasn't just any old make-a-left-turn-100-feet-ahead-onto-Maple-Street GPS; this was a vehicle-tracking GPS device — the kind used by trucking fleets — or in this case, overprotective parents. The device was installed in Malone's car by his parents, and the press release makes no mention if the teenager knew that the device was installed in his vehicle at the time."

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Re:Heh, heh, heh.

[KGIII]

Even if I know there is something in their private area I won't ever open it without them. I can't. I could with like a torch or something but, no, I can't. Nor can their mother. We don't have keys for it. As for the rest? Well, duh? At this age they don't have a choice though I gave them the illusion of one for the phones. I explained WHY it was important to me and no, I don't ACTIVELY monitor them as some of the trolls would like to think. But, yeah, duh? Of COURSE they're going to rebel. My goal is not, and has never been, to STOP them from doing anything. My goal is actually just to be there to pick up the pieces and help them when they do make their mistakes in life. Developmentally they aren't at the age where they can actually understand abstract thinking so they don't/can't actually always think through the consequences of their actions. (I've seen too many parents that thought their children were actually aware of what the results would be and then punish them for some seen error. If my children break something then we actually sit and try to talk the physics of why it happened and then we take it apart. The CLAIMED goal of taking it apart is because they broke it and they now have to fix it but, well, it never works that way. We just take it apart. Don't tell them though.