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> The AirTag was used to track someone. A vehicle was used to murder them. I don't think anyone who clicked the article (besides you perhaps) was expecting th

> The AirTag was used to track someone. A vehicle was used to murder them. I don't think anyone who clicked the article (besides you perhaps) was expecting the AirTag to be the actual murder weapon. It's an indisputable fact that the killer used an AirTag to track and follow her victim to his destination and then murder him, I'm not quite sure why you're bringing up WitSec or "framing".

lotsofpulp 4y ago
Because the wording makes it seem like the murderer used the AirTag with the motive to murder. If the girlfriend had used the AirTag to track the boyfriend and found him planning a surprise party for her or something, then the AirTag served the same role, which makes the AirTag superfluous to the murder part of this story. Edit: another way of putting it is if the girlfriend simply followed the boyfriend’s car, the end result was the same. But an article would not have been written titled “Woman used a vehicle to track boyfriend, then ran over and killed him, police say”
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- SadTrombone 4y ago
  The problem with tailing your boyfriend in your car is that your boyfriend tends to notice you tailing him in your car, since he knows what you and your car look like. Using an AirTag completely negates that. It's a lot easier to tail someone without being caught when you can wait for them to reach their final destination and just go straight there instead without ever being visible to the victim. If you're unwilling to even acknowledge that tracking someone via AirTag is much simpler versus physically tailing them around town then we're just wasting time here.
  - lotsofpulp 4y ago
    > If you're unwilling to even acknowledge that tracking someone via AirTag is much simpler versus physically tailing them around town then we're just wasting time here. I specifically acknowledged the AirTag was used to track, and obviously it makes tracking easier. I objected to the notion that an AirTag was involved in the murder, since it was not premeditated.
- sokoloff 4y ago
  That is some Olympic-level mental gymnastics to argue that just because other, much more difficult, ways to track someone exist, that a tracking device played no part in making that particular sequence of events (including the crime of murder) easier to commit.
  - lotsofpulp 4y ago
    I did not write an AirTag played no part. I wrote that the AirTag was superfluous to the murder, just like using a car to drive to the bar was superfluous to the murder.

lotsofpulp 4y ago

Because the wording makes it seem like the murderer used the AirTag with the motive to murder. If the girlfriend had used the AirTag to track the boyfriend and found him planning a surprise party for her or something, then the AirTag served the same role, which makes the AirTag superfluous to the murder part of this story. Edit: another way of putting it is if the girlfriend simply followed the boyfriend’s car, the end result was the same. But an article would not have been written titled “Woman used a vehicle to track boyfriend, then ran over and killed him, police say”

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SadTrombone 4y ago
The problem with tailing your boyfriend in your car is that your boyfriend tends to notice you tailing him in your car, since he knows what you and your car look like. Using an AirTag completely negates that. It's a lot easier to tail someone without being caught when you can wait for them to reach their final destination and just go straight there instead without ever being visible to the victim. If you're unwilling to even acknowledge that tracking someone via AirTag is much simpler versus physically tailing them around town then we're just wasting time here.
- lotsofpulp 4y ago
  > If you're unwilling to even acknowledge that tracking someone via AirTag is much simpler versus physically tailing them around town then we're just wasting time here. I specifically acknowledged the AirTag was used to track, and obviously it makes tracking easier. I objected to the notion that an AirTag was involved in the murder, since it was not premeditated.
sokoloff 4y ago
That is some Olympic-level mental gymnastics to argue that just because other, much more difficult, ways to track someone exist, that a tracking device played no part in making that particular sequence of events (including the crime of murder) easier to commit.
- lotsofpulp 4y ago
  I did not write an AirTag played no part. I wrote that the AirTag was superfluous to the murder, just like using a car to drive to the bar was superfluous to the murder.