What if the Cops put a Tracker on your Car?

[RWebb]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonville,_Indiana

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by nota

IF you survive !,
a very unlikely outcome after the home invasion by pigs with shots fired
the pig will claim some BS and charge you with murder#1
you spend years in jail no bond ,
lawyers will bankrupt you
the pig will find evidence [they planted] to convict you

I wasn't arguing survivability but legality.

They don't shoot people for destroying GPS trackers do they

[pwd72s]

Boy oh boy...would the cops ever be bored if they put a tracker on my car...

[GH85Carrera]

I think we all agree, the "suspect" is not real smart. To keep a GPS in a place that you have total control of, is just dumb. Why keep it at all? Take it off, and toss it in the lake or a river, after wiping it of any fingerprints. Dispose of it, and forget it, don't keep it as a souvenir. It is a freaking GPS tracker, they can find it easily.

Even better, park your car at the local church or a police station, and drive a different vehicle.

Originally Posted by masraum

Actually, there is a video by a lawyer farther up. The same lawyer also has an interesting article and video on the Road and Track websit about dashcams.

Yup--I've heard that guy. He's making persuasive arguments. If he's any good, he would be able to make equally persuasive arguments to the contrary. Cases that are interesting legally present these sorts of issues. this one was interesting enough to be heard on appeal before it was concluded (called an interlocutory appeal), which happens rarely.

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I think we all agree, the "suspect" is not real smart. To keep a GPS in a place that you have total control of, is just dumb. Why keep it at all? Take it off, and toss it in the lake or a river, after wiping it of any fingerprints. Dispose of it, and forget it, don't keep it as a souvenir. It is a freaking GPS tracker, they can find it easily.

Even better, park your car at the local church or a police station, and drive a different vehicle.

Laws are made to protect everyone--especially the stupid--against government overreach. Most criminal cases involve stupid people, because smart people don't do crimes.

[Jim Richards]

^^^ or don't get caught

[masraum]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Boy oh boy...would the cops ever be bored if they put a tracker on my car...

But they'd know the best play to play a rack or two and maybe get a beer. And maybe the jukebox would be playing some of that blues/rock/country music!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Boy oh boy...would the cops ever be bored if they put a tracker on my car...

Same here.

I still don't want a tracker on me or my car, but they would sure get bored following my trail. Oh look, he went to lunch, no look, back to the airport to his hangar, look, a trip home.

[sc_rufctr]

Wasn't there a thread about an FBI GPS tracker with a really long battery tube?
It must have been some years ago but I remember seeing photos of the battery tube with high quality mil spec batteries.

The new ones can be connected to the cars 12 volt system and anyone can buy one.

If you suspect your spouse is cheating this is about the easiest way to find out.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by masraum

But they'd know the best play to play a rack or two and maybe get a beer. And maybe the jukebox would be playing some of that blues/rock/country music!

That's kind of funny. Returning from a trip to the cue ball, we topped off the tank. Giving a trip mileage reading for the log book I keep, Cindy remarked that the mileage was exactly the same as the previous top off...to the tenth of a mile. Exactly the same.

If the tracker on her Camry, it would be more interesting...various shopping trips and trips for medical appointments. Very much a pattern though. Still, would bore the hell out of cops.

Oh..The Cue Ball is a no booze place. There is a juke, but don't hear it played often. Most seem content with the hall's stereo tuned to a classic rock station at low volume.
To steal a line for the pool movie that Paul Newman should have had an Oscar for: "Just pool, mister". Only that's not quite true, the Cue ball also has a billiard table and a snooker table. So.."Just cue sports" would be more accurate.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

If you suspect your spouse is cheating this is about the easiest way to find out.

Ugh. Super easy but it's sometimes better to not know that much of the full picture.

[sc_rufctr]

If my souse was cheating on my I'd want to know.

It's ugly but it's better than not knowing then getting ambushed at a time of her choosing.

I went through an ugly divorce some years ago. It was obvious she was lying to me so I hired a PI.
The PI was an attractive younger lady. I had my doubts when I first met her but she certainly produced "the goods."
Based on what I found out I ended the marriage almost immediately. I shudder to think what could have happened had I not done that.

Looking back it's one of the best decisions I ever made.

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

There is a juke, but don't hear it played often. Most seem content with the hall's stereo tuned to a classic rock station at low volume.
.

a recent review:
They need to fix one thing - their audio system. Music, no matter what is playing, sounds absolutely awful. Something is wrong with their system and it has been this way for months. I cant imagine having to hear it every day, with heavy distortion, echoes, and all played through a blown speaker.


- maybe the speaker isn't blown but has a tracker embedded in it?

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Since you didn't read the news article linked in post no. 1, I'll tell you that the police lost track of the signal, got a 2nd warrant to search 2 properties and found the tracker secured in a locker in a bathroom within a barn. I don't think it walked in there on its own. See, that's been my point. There are an infinite number of ways that this GPS tracker could have been removed and 'lost' but there was only one way it ended up off the vehicle and in a locker.

I watched the video. This whole thing smells. Someone took a tracking device off of a (presumably) steel car and put it in a (presumably) steel locker and that caused the police to lose the signal? And because they lost the signal they decided to raid a barn looking for the device and just happened to find contraband?
I’m not a fan of drug dealers, glad they got caught, but something is fishy about this story.

[pwd72s]

Hmmm, thinking about it, no radio last visit. Maybe Jim's having the speakers reconed? The noise of pool balls clicking is better music in that setting anyway...

[brainz01]

I found a mysterious black box in the rear fender area of my Cayenne. It was clearly not factory - - wiring wasn't German and it was spliced in. It was also connected to a large plastic "patch" stuck on the fender.

I'd bought the car used and had owned it for a year or so when I found it. Everything else on the car was stock, so this was a head scratcher. I decide to rip it all out. I ended up cracking open the mystery box and finding an FCC number which I Googled.

Result: LoJack. I had no idea it was there. I seem to recall I damaged the antenna (the patch) taking it out, so I tossed it all in the trash.

So there you go. That's probably what I'd do.

[dad911]

I think I'd drive to a shopping center, and move the tracker to another car. Send them on a wild goose chase.

[RWebb]

I liked the taxi idea best...

geese wild all over the place...

[stomachmonkey]

Dolly Man.

Towing company attached wheel locks to his car.

He dollied the car into his garage.

When the towing company called the cops and tried to get him for theft he showed them where the car was and told them they were welcome to take their wheel locks back.

He was not denying them access to their property.

Cops agreed, although that was not the end of the saga.