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However you may feel about the theft charge, if you find a tracker on your car, don't take it off. It's an occasion to call the police. Someone is either commit
by rosybox 7y ago
However you may feel about the theft charge, if you find a tracker on your car, don't take it off. It's an occasion to call the police. Someone is either committing a crime by tracking you illegally or you're letting the police know you found their tracker. Maybe they'll remove it, as once the tracker is known to exist it's useless.
If you want to go the route of civil disobedience and take it off on moral grounds, you can do that too, but you'll probably go to jail. This isn't the first time I've heard of this, the FBI has charged people for tampering with the trackers they've put on people's cars.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2011/05/09/heres-what-the-gps-devices-used-by-the-fbi-to-track-your-car-look-like/#539161ee523d https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2011/05/09/heres-...
- ryacko 7y agoThey'll say the tracker must because of [dumb semi-plausible reason], nod at you, and keep it. Take it to a lawyer.
- joe_the_user 7y agoIt should be noted that the tracker did not say "property of the police" and if even it had, there's no way to know if it was the police (since cops don't tell people they're being investigated and someone else could put a stamp on their own tracker. And it's one police unit that has placed the tracker, dispatch or whoever you might call, won't know which unit placed the item or whether a unit did). From article: "'What if it’s not the police’s tracker device?' asked Justice Geoffrey Slaughter. 'What if instead it belongs to the jilted girlfriend or the nosy neighbor? Is it also theft if he removes that device from his vehicle?'"
- rosybox 7y ago> "'What if it’s not the police’s tracker device?' asked Justice Geoffrey Slaughter. 'What if instead it belongs to the jilted girlfriend or the nosy neighbor? Is it also theft if he removes that device from his vehicle?'" The thing to do is to call the police.
- ralfd 7y ago> However you may feel about the theft charge, if you find a tracker on your car, don't take it off. Yes, but ... > It's an occasion to call the police. If you are a drug dealer it is an occasion to hide your supply extra hard. And use a second car/taxi for your drug dealing while using the compromised car for perfectly legal things like an upstanding citizen.
- MaxfordAndSons 7y ago> And use a second car/taxi for your drug dealing If you are a drug dealer and find a police tracker on your car, it's time to stop being a drug dealer.
- Nasrudith 7y agoIf part of an organized ring I wonder how well acting as a dedicated decoy would pay off strategically. Deliberately "cry wolf" with legitimate but shady looking shipments while other members carry out business. Of course that would make them and the organization lose their illegitimate income and the police likely outnumber them in particular even if there may be more smugglers total. Of course long term thinking and crime for profit don't usually go together - quick gains and jackpots are the temptations in the first place.
- really3452 7y agoRight or wrong aside, this is already illegal where I live by the same reason it is illegal to be sober and leave a bar as the designated decoy (ie: pretend to be drunk to distract an officer watching the bar for drunk drivers).
- MFLoon 7y agoLarger scale smugglers/producers definitely do this, and yea, if you're a middle management drug dealer in one of those organizations, that's probably the play. But also they'll be getting spied on by federal/international organizations with better tools than physical magnetized trackers.
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- kube-system 7y agoClearly, the solution is to trade the car in.
- Jamwinner 7y agoThis is terrible advice, are you a lawyer?