Saturday August 16,2008. A woman called into Car Talk on NPR to say that she was in the middle of a divorce and she suspected that her husband had planted a GPS tracking advice on her Ford Explorer. Click and clack’s advice was first take it to a local mechanic (not the one used by the husband) to see if there was device which would be easy to detect. The red flashing light would be a give-away. Then they explored the fun the wife might have “messing with his mind.” Some of the suggestions were: leave her car out side his best friends house at night; re-attach the car to her clergyman’s car or place the device on a different car every day. Seriously, not only is this a criminal offence but it would backfire in a big way if it came out in the divorce. This prompted me to do a search where I found that a private prosecutor had been prosecuted for criminal tampering where he put a GPS device under a car for his client getting divorce in Colordo. Read article http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20080307/NEWS/186326399. Then I heard that Illinois Governor signed a law that allows the Court to tag domestic violence offenders with a GPS tracking device. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93420266 As I was doing more research on GPS devices I came across this in Slate magazine: Involuntary GPS surveillance is spreading: 1) Companies are selling GPS devices to track lost Alzheimer's patients, as well as sensors that "sound an alarmwhen someone strolls too far." One company is implanting GPS chips in sneakers. 2) "Over 200 paroled burglars in Connecticut will be fitted with global tracking devices as part of the state's response to last month's horrific home invasion." 3) Mitt Romney is demandinglifetime federal GPS tracking of anyone who has used the Internet to commit a sex offense against a minor. Human Nature's question for Romney: If we're talking about the subset of perverts who do their prowling in cyberspace while sitting still in real space, doesn't it make more sense to track them on the Web? (Related column: Why felons should be grateful for GPS monitors.)
Top candidates for a GPS tracking device: 1) Senator John Edwards. 2) Tom Cruises career and lastly 3) The Russian Army. Suggestions welcome.
