So you’re servicing your car, minding your own business, and you happen to encounter a GPS tracker that wasn’t there before.
Thanks, fellas! Hey, I’m a guy. I love gadgets.
Here are some suggestions for what to do with it:
1) Remove and destroy
2) Leave it alone, and drive only where you want the authorities to know you’re going
3) Remove and place in garbage
4) Remove and place on random civilian vehicle
5) Remove and place on long-haul freight truck
6) Remove and mail to Hong Kong
7) Remove and mail to cops
8 ) Remove and send to FBI via strip-o-gram
9) Remove and sell on ebay
10) Remove, disassemble and use as part of an autonomous aircraft guidance system. post videos to Youtube, be sure to thank authorities for the free donation of the electronics that made it all possible
11) Remove and place on police car (slightly risky)
12) Remove and attach to helium-filled weather balloon
13) Remove and attach to sewer rat
14) Remove and “clone” so that there are, say, fifty of you running around
Personally I think #4 is kinda cold. The sewer rat thing totally wouldn’t work, but the chuckle factor on the helium balloon would be awesome. I might take it completely apart, glue each component to black velvet, and mount it in a shadowbox on my wall. Enemies like this are a badge of honor, and I’d want the trophy.
Any other suggestions?
Just how big are these things?
If small, remove and disble, wait for it to be replaced, remove and disable that one. Make a matching pair of dangly earrings sell on ebay.
Leave it on there. It would be great to have that as evidence to back up my alibi that I was at home that night. 🙂
Assuming it could run for some time on say, 8 “aa”s wired in series(I take it the gizmo would tap into the car’s 12 volt electrical system)-place it and batteries in a waterproof container and send it on its way down the river(or ocean. Or storm sewer. Or sewery sewer). Leave it on a city bus(or any city vehicle).Not necessarily a city near you.
Not a weather balloon but one of the edge-of-space jobs amateur radio operators use at times(the ones that go to 100,000+ feet. I take it GPS also gives altitude?).
I would not put it on any private vehicle,car, semi or otherwise.
Buy a cheap solar panel(the little “solar adapter” or 12 volt trickle carger jobs). Tape it to the top of a bus, or some such..it only works when the sun hits it..there could be a lot of (risky) fun to be had with one..
It would be a lot easier to leave the tracker in a taxi cab under a seat or put it in a cardboard box and mail it to an overseas address. Once that was done I would be watching my car real close to see if they would try again.
BTW They don`t have to go to the trouble of hiding a tracker on your car if they want to see where you are going. If you have a cell phone. All they have to do is ping it and if it`s on then the cell phone`s GPS will tell the where you are within a yard. The only way to get around this is to take the battery out of the damn thing when you are not using it.
I like #11 best. It would be like a dog chasing it’s tail.