You Can’t Spell “Stupid Guy” With G-P-S
Monday, December 31st, 2007 • Filed under Theft
When you try to steal a GPS device, there’s a slight problem with the plan. A fricking satellite that’s orbiting the fricking Earth can pinpoint your exact location from outer fricking space. You’re fricked.
According to the Associated Press, a man in New York who stole a GPS system got caught when police used the GPS device to track him down.
They spotted the man carrying the stolen GPS unit while riding his bicycle. This is a GPS unit that was meant for a car. Why would anyone who rides a bike need a GPS unit? Drug dealers aren’t on GPS maps.
The cyclist didn’t give direct answers to officers’ questions. For instance, he insisted he did drive a car. The other two wheels were in the shop.
Then the officer hit the home button on the GPS device and the resident at the address said the GPS device was theirs. The cyclist immediately filed a stolen home report.
desirae says: January 9th, 2008 at 11:29 am
wow you really cant get more stupid then that he was probably mentally handicapped!
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Joe says: January 17th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Who ever wrote the intro is just as stupid as the crim. The GPS satellites don’t pinpoint your location, rather the GPS device in your hand determines its location based on the signals of the satellites. There is no way to track a portable GPS device (TomTom, Destinator, Navman etc) unless it has a tracking system built in as well such as OnStar.
Carolynn says: February 26th, 2008 at 10:21 am
If the GPS knows where it is, why can’t WE know where it is if it is stolen? I mean, cell phones can be located (that’s how we found a runanway teenager when I was a police dispatcher)
I gave my Dad a TomTom 2 weeks ago and it was taken from his car in front of his home in a gated community. Why can’t TomTom, Inc. help us find it like Alltel helped us find the runaway?
Chris says: March 26th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Joe and I are on the same page here. GPS receivers are just that…RECEIVERS! They don’t transmit.