Quis custodiet and all that.
What a pair of ace-holes: Crooks bug gambler's car with GPS tracker, follow him and rob him
A couple of crooks planted a GPS tracking device on a gambler's car so they could follow him home and rob him at gunpoint. According to cops in Montgomery County, Maryland, the two thieves clocked the man at a casino in nearby Baltimore, tracked him home over 50 miles, and then robbed the house six days later. The pair of …
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Tuesday 8th March 2016 21:09 GMT Stevie
Bah!
While removing the second GPS tracker and that of the PI, police discovered three more placed there by the FBI, the NSA and Facebook.
Facebook claims they were working on behalf of the department of homeland security, but it turns out the Facebook representatives had been scammed by a wily Google employee who was himself unwittingly a tool of a secret program funded by Yahoo.
While this was being sorted out another seven GPS trackers were discovered and traced back to the IRS, Barrack Obama For A Gun-Free America (a super PAC front funded by Koch Industries as a double-play), The Bavarian Illuminati of No Fixed Address, Microsoft Corp, British Petroleum, two men going by Boris and Vladimir who claimed to be Diplomatic Couriers from the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C., and The Wikipedia Foundation.
The ensuing brouhaha caused the police to strip the car to its chassis, whereupon to was discovered that the airbag was actually just a plastic bag filled with bubble-wrap, the emissions control computer was consistently operating in a manner outside the specifications of the DOE tests and the tyres, labelled as new when bought, were retreads intended for low speed agricultural use only and lethally dangerous at anything over twenty five miles per hour.
The remains of the car were taken to a hazardous waste facility, the body shell being found to be not "space age carbon fiber" as claimed by the manufacturer, but a curious asbestos mat/formaldehyde-based resin affair, which had been coated in high-lead paint.
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Tuesday 8th March 2016 23:56 GMT elDog
Re: Bah!
And the accumulated trackers were discovered because the vehicle was leaning a bit and suffered from the dread barnacle accumulation.
I obviously have nothing more intelligent to add to this conversation other than it would be more efficient for all interested parties to sign into my site (http://TracksAre.US) and ask US to send our already collected information to YOU (25-EYES-ONLY).
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Wednesday 9th March 2016 11:21 GMT DropBear
Re: Bah!
"And the accumulated trackers were discovered because the vehicle was leaning a bit and suffered from the dread barnacle accumulation."
Not quite, considering that out of the final total of 27 trackers found in the car, 19 were actually co-sharing the same piece of hardware - the owner's GPS-enabled smartphone...
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Wednesday 9th March 2016 00:07 GMT Down not across
Which one is it?
No one was seriously injured in the robbery, though police say a 14-year-old girl and 21-year-old man were zip-tied while the crooks searched the house for money.
Kevin Darnell Carroll, 44, was arrested and charged with home invasion, armed robbery and first-degree assault. It is alleged police matched his DNA with that found on the duct-tape used to bind the victims of the armed robbery.
Zip ties or duct tape? I'm guessing duct tape since that provided the DNA evidence.