LAWYER: Is It Legal to Throw Away a Police Tracker?

If the police put a tracker on your vehicle and you find it, what do you do? Can you throw it away? Leave it on the side of the road? Let's talk about how you can defend yourself in this situation.
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[@Salty_Balls]

So they out a tracker on that lady's car, she stuck it to a pole, and they had to ask for it back? I mean, couldn't they TRACK it and get it themselves? 😂

[@anonnymowse]

Ha ha ha, You are right. Thank you for the good laugh.

[@krane15]

That would have tracked it to the canal.

[@hansw5067]

I would have stuck it to a policecar.

[@jamesogden7756]

You think these morons are competent???? 😂😂😂 You made me laugh to tears. Thanks.

[@booboo8577]

It wasn't a very good tracker was it?

[@theprofessional155]

If the police claim there is no expectation of privacy and cars are on public roads then can’t civilians make the same argument for putting trackers on their cars ?

[@skillethead15]

It’s just some nonsense these police departments argue to try and get around our individual rights. The fact is, these police have no business putting anything on our private property regardless of what they think is going on or what some judge has to say. If they think illegal activity is going on then come up with some evidence the normal way and make an arrest.

[@mccormyke]

No because enforcement officers are above the law.

[@twentyfifthdui4717]

Police and others are prohibited from putting a tracker on your car without a court order based on probable cause. So there is a reasonable expectation of privacy against having a tracker on your car.

[@Metqa]

@@twentyfifthdui4717 What if I want to put my own tracker on my own car?

[@WhiteWolfos]

​@@Metqa tracking your own property is fine. You can even put it on your dogs or cats. You can even track your wife's car or whatever but the way for that morally is consent. Without consent it breeds distrust.

[@kenfulkerson9567]

Had a friend in the Army who found 1 on his truck, he sold the truck and bought something else, the dealership pulled it off and called the State Police. Local Police tried to arrest him and he said what are you talking about. He was on post and the Locals put out a warrant for his arrest. State Police retuned the favor, and arrested the Cop who put it on the truck. Then the Feds got involved as he was living on Post and tracking military personal on active duty is considered spying.

[@kennethjackson7574]

Oh, what a tangled web . . .

[@immortalsofar5314]

Just like in the McCarthy era, it often takes the army to stand up to tyrannical governments. Ironic when you think about it when in most places, they are the biggest threat to democracy.

[@fobbitoperator3620]

This was an instance where the "Good Idea Fairy" abused Citizen's Constitutional Rights. Horrible...

[@foshizol]

Any write ups about this or videos? I find this story fascinating, and would love to read more.

[@JohnAnderson42]

I am going to call "this didn't happen"

[@chopinbloc]

"Stolen"? You GAVE it to me. It was a gift.

[@mikearonson1071]

Exactly. That's like them saying the $50 bill they slipped into my pocket is theirs somehow.

[@finris1]

Technically not. To qualify as a gift, it requires, (1) the person to intend to give ownership, (2) physical transfer of the property, and (3) acceptance from the recipient. They had no intention of giving ownership of the tracker to the target, and he had no ability to accept.

[@Blue2366]

Well, you found it. That doesn’t make it a gift. “Possession of lost or mislaid property.”

[@Octopussyist]

@@finris1 Do they have a contract that requires me to take care of their property?

[@alexkatc59]

@@Blue2366 It is not lost and it is not mislaid. They directly have lain it in my car... for me.

[@randycarter2001]

My question is "How do you know it's a police tracker?" It could belong to anybody.

[@krane15]

You don't, and it could.

[@autonomouspublishingincorp8241]

Exactly. Given that YOU are responsible for the safety and security of yourself, your family, and anyone who happens to be your passenger, and no police officer is going to request permission to track you, You pretty much have a duty to get rid of an anonymous stalker's tracking device in the most misleading way possible. But don't worry. Now days they can track you in any number of ways. Now the auto manufacturer may have already installed a tracking device law enforcement might gain access to, and nearly every phone on the market is directly or indirectly a tracking device with varying levels of accuracy. Heck, even a smart TV and other appliances and utilities include ways of tracking or otherwise stalking you. Corporations do it all the time, and they never obtain a warrant to do so. Comforting?

[@daexion]

Depends on if it says "Property of the PD, please return if found".

[@slewone4905]

This is the problem. Anyone can right , property of PD . In these days, people posing as police are robbing people. @@daexion

[@bartblack8054]

My question is, does it make a difference who is tracking you? You're like: police/fbi 👎 Drug cartel 👍 Private investigator hired by your ex 👍👍🤓

[@Strideo1]

While I agree that a lost GPS tracker should NOT be grounds for a search warrant that guy who took the tracker off and put it inside his meth house was clearly an idiot. 🤦

[@stevenmark8156]

Very true! But what else would you expect. They are idiots or they wouldn’t have a meth lab!

[@davidvarney3357]

If they will illegally use a tracking device and get an illegal search warrant. What would keep them from planting drugs in your house?

[@Feral_Turd]

yep. the thing to do is stick it on your neighbor's car, the cops won't notice the difference.

[@NegativeROG]

Undeniably.

[@krane15]

First thought that came to my mind. They would track it right to his house.

[@wizardsuth]

I wouldn't care whether the police got a warrant for it or not. If they don't show me a warrant, I can't be expected to honour it.

[@gbear1005]

The law has long held that anything given or sent to you without you ordering it or agreeing to it IS A GIFT that you can dispose of legally.

[@finris1]

No, it hasn't. To be a gift, it is required for (a) the gifter to "intend" to hand over ownership to the recipient, (b) a physical trasfer of possession, and (c) the recipient accept the proposed gift. In this kind of scenario, the police absolutely have no intention of giving ownership of the tracker, and the recipient wouldn't know it was there, so they have no ability to accept.

[@marcelgaddis9319]

@@finris1 thats why you put in a package and ship it to china

[@RunFromCities]

​@@finris1 thats a unreasonable expectation and an undue burden on the general public. knowing the intent of..... oh wait you can't know cause all you know is you received a random object at random time at a random place from the unknown..... thats the just a stupid expectation worthy of Darwin awards aplenty.

[@finris1]

@@RunFromCities (1) You can prove intent by the facts of the case. Like how they put it on the car in a way where most people wouldn't notice unless they checked their car thoroughly. Or how it was a tracker. Those facts point to the idea they were using it to keep tabs on the car's owner, not trying to gift him a free tracking device. (2) I am not saying the police should be allowed to do this. I am just stating the legalities involved.

[@RobGM2]

@@marcelgaddis9319 Yup, send it to China. They would reverse engineer it then start selling jammers on wish and temmu that can block its frequencies. LOL

[@NegativeROG]

My truck is my personal private property, and falls under the same protections as my home. Until the police pay for my vehicles, they aren't allowed to attach things to them. Period.

[@blahsomethingclever]

Agreed

[@jeffdo9195]

Good luck with that

[@larrybergman6075]

I totally agree.

[@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket]

Clearly you are not an attorney, a vehicle especially when in public does not have anywhere near the same legal protection as a home. Who told you this? They are wrong, period. I think it's just so precious you think saying period has any bearing on the reality of the situation. They are the police, they are allowed to put that on your car, now if it's legally admissible evidence or even grounds to sue them that is complicated but in general yes the police can put a track on your car if they have a warrant it's their unquestioned legal right. You think just because you bought something in America you're allowed to enjoy it? In this day and age and you're still so naive? Come on kid.

[@venalleader2909]

I understand, but a search warrant is a search warrant. That means they are allowed to do that, just like they are allowed to enter your house with a search warrant and confiscate your private property. I think the best thing to do is just remove the tracking device and throw it away, claiming ignorance as to what it was.

[@AzraelThanatos]

What a friend of mine who worked with emergency services dispatch commented about for dealing with the trackers is that there are a LOT of ways people can use them to screw with the police. The one that caused the most problems was crossing into another state and acting paranoid about an unusual device you found stuck to your car to the local police in that area. With that one, the person with the device attached may or may not have known what it was, but told the local cops he noticed it after remembering a story about car bombs and then noticed something unusual on the car. Their bomb squad showed up, removed and "disabled" the device, then, in the investigation, followed the serial number and sent the bill for it to the cops who put it on the car and a large interstate issue that came down on them for it.

[@EugeneSSmith]

Nice! I would 'tack' it onto an outbound train, at the nearest rail yard! 😅

[@tmetito3535]

​@@EugeneSSmith or a boat

[@billfreeman7300]

I would throw in the river.

[@almc8445]

That is brilliant 🤣

[@Akaritomi]

Keeping this in mind just in case.

[@ericl2152]

Funny story. A mechanic claims to have found a GPS tracker on his friends car. The friend promptly returned the tracker to the US Gov by sending it the US Consulate in Ulan Battar, Mongolia. Apparently he could not be charged as he had returned the device to the US gov.

[@CB-vt3mx]

we had a visit from state LE at a post I was stationed at...they had put trackers on some vehicles in the city nearby and were upset that the trackers did not work when they were near the installation. We were testing some new equipment and apparently, it blocked their system. I just laughed and said, "tough shit--we are not stopping"...how stupid can they be? Did they not know that the military operates some large and powerful electronic warfare equipment?

[@vidal9747]

​@@CB-vt3mxIn most countries, the cop profession attracts entitled people who want power over others. There are a lot of good cops who do it because they want to make a difference. But there is no denying that professions where you have power over others attract entitled people. They let it go to their head thinking everyone has to obey them. Not realizing that the military is not subject to the same laws, or enforcers as civilians.

[@kennethjackson7574]

Retired Coast Guard member here. Most folks wouldn’t have this option, and I don’t know exactly how precise these are, but if the police saw it was moving slowly but it’s six miles offshore they might be confused about why it’s there, and how to get it back.

[@stinkyfungus]

I know what I'd do with it. Not gonna say, but it's an option most folks don't have. But I guarantee you, it'll mindfuck the shit out of whoever is monitoring that tracker.

[@Henry-ul2zx]

@@stinkyfungussince you post it, why not reveal it?

[@krislewis63]

Live in Florida? Drop it in a gator-infested swamp...

[@jaredkennedy6576]

On a calm day, a garbage Craigslist boat can be in international waters in a couple hours. Just remember to pay cash, give a false name, and take the hull number off first

[@SMOBY44]

My ex was dating a guy who fancied himself a private investigator. He put a tracker on my car. Not sure how long it was there, but I moved it to the underside of a long haul truck at a Loves truck stop. I came home from work about a week later to find them in my house going through my papers in my safe. They were both arrested. Seems they had put that tracker on my car to wait for me to be gone. Probably confused the shit out of them when it showed I was half way across the country but I showed up.🤣

[@Sigurther]

How in the heck did they get into your safe? I know you're just a machinist mate, but even you guys gotta understand security. XD

[@ronjericho7977]

@@Sigurtherbecause no one has ever been able to open someone else’s safe

[@shadowprince4482]

@@Sigurther Ex probably knew to combo.

[@Zomby_Woof]

​@shadowprince4482 or it was cleverly set to something unguessable - like 6-6-6

[@joshuawillingham6363]

​@@SigurtherMost safes kinda suck honestly. If you get a $300-400 Walmart google and twenty minutes or less of work will get it open. Less if you've got a decent power drill. Security measures like that are only to A) stall and B) make it more work so more people will decide it's not worth it. There's not a safe in the world that will keep out a determined thief on its own.

[@colinsmith1495]

"Judge, we think this guy stole our tracker!" "Why do you think that?" "Well, we put it on his vehicle and now it's not working anymore." "... Wait... YOU put the tracker on HIS vehicle and now you're claiming HE stole it from you? You're the ones putting it on HIS property. If he found it there, it's YOUR fault it's missing." How that hearing should have gone.

[@OmniscientWarrior]

Can't steal what people gave to you.

[@mrunknown6842]

Yep

[@mrunknown6842]

At that point it falls under gifting law

[@victorforzani3433]

it will be even more stupid to take a police tracker.

[@joe125ful]

Yeah that is sooo dumb:):)

[@hornetscales8274]

Take it to the Feds and ask to ID it and find if there's a warrant that allows it. If no warrant, ask the Feds to arrest the owners: "Call the cops on the cops".

[@muzzlevelocity4397]

This does indeed sound like the best course of action.

[@darkprinc979]

Nope. If the police need to put a tracker on your vehicle for some reason, the burden is on them to communicate to you through the warrant that they can legally put it there. The entire purpose of the warrant system is to keep the police in check and preserve the rights of citizens.

[@hornetscales8274]

@@darkprinc979 Hence, "calling the cops on the cops".

[@bobross8569]

Tracker? I had absolutely no idea! Someone else must have removed it.

[@hueyiroquois3839]

IMO, if an unknown object on your property has nothing on it to indicate who owns it, the owner didn't do due diligence, and it should be considered abandoned.

[@JAlexanderG]

I'd turn around and try to sell it.

[@jeffputman3504]

Federal law says that anything that arrives in the mail, that you did not request, is your property. You may keep it or dispose of it any way you wish. That same principle should apply to police trackers.

[@ezrollerj]

not my keys not my wallet is not supposed to be a police policy lol

[@clambroth1923]

Due diligence about what, pray tell? The law/legality?

[@SoccerPhoto]

​@clambroth1923 Due diligence to identify it as owned by law enforcement. If they can convince the county or state to pass a law making it illegal to remove/dispose of the device, and mark it accordingly, then the car owner has now committed a crime.

[@dannabass]

How would you even know it was a police tracker? it could be from a stalker or killer or other hostile agent, so it has to be removed for your safety.

[@sarowie]

call the fire department. that thing looks like a bomb with remote detonator.

[@OregonDARRYL]

You throw it away and never say a word. Shh.... Or put it on a cop car...

[@marioncobretti7870]

Exactly. This guys an idiot If i found a random tracker on my car, how would i know whos it was, and without a warrant, its none of a cops business where i go anyways

[@daftwulli6145]

Just don´t mix the 2, saying you thought it was a bomb and so you put it on a police car might get you into deep doo doo

[@OregonDARRYL]

@@marioncobretti7870 You find out who planted it, and you go search their homes. When cops wanna play... PLAY.

[@KaffiRawr]

I'm guessing: If you own the vehicle, you're free to un-install any foreign objects or hardware if there's no paperwork for it to be there, no repercussion. It's your vehicle after all.

[@shawnmatthews5118]

I destroyed one and left it sitting on the curb in front of my house with return to sender written on it. It was gone the next day and no one ever contacted me about it.

[@richardjames4997]

Some insurance companies involved with disability and workers compensation cases have used GPS trackers for evidence in court cases. A friend who was involved in a disability case found one on his car. He took it to a railroad freight yard and put it on a random container. The tracker went across country by train, truck, ship and back to truck before the trial date. The insurance lawyer attempted to claim he drove his car ~5000 miles and was lying when he said he couldn't sit or drive longer than 30 minutes. When questioned how they came across this information, they admitted to the illegal tracker and the judge ruled against the insurance company, even awarding additional compensation to my friend.

[@salvadormonella8953]

Just because the car drives longer than 30 minutes doesn't mean the disabled person was driving. Obviously someone else could drive the disabled person somewhere because they CAN'T DRIVE FOR MORE THAN 30 MINUTES. Even if this disabled person did drive for more than 30 minutes, one car trip over 30 minutes doesn't nullify their contention. Maybe they were having a VERY good day! Maybe in order to drive those more than 30 minutes they had to take an unsafe amount of prescription pills just to get through that half hour. That insurance company sounds stupid, and lazy.

[@brys555]

@@salvadormonella8953 Yep, it was that friend the one claiming he can not drive for more than 30 minutes, not his car.

[@salvadormonella8953]

@@brys555 Most people, including insurance adjusters, are only of average intelligence. It sounds like this adjuster was maybe a couple of ticks below average. Don't let these insurance fiends bully you. I worked as an insurance claim adjudicator for seven years. I know how many of these adjusters think. They look for reasons to deny claims, rather than reasons to approve them. I was the latter. It wasn't my money. Instead of trying to deny claims, I tried to pay them. If it wasn't specifically excluded as a covered item, I paid the claim. People suffer enough. Making them pay for some of these expenses can be the straw that sends them into a downward spiral from which they never recover. You'd think seven years of doing that would have earned me some karma bonus points, but I haven't felt those bonus points much yet....

[@MikodoHizo]

​@@salvadormonella8953 exactly remember when they go off it's not the CEOs or the board members taking the shots it's you that's getting those bullets.

[@the_expidition427]

Saving this

[@robertcaccavalla6469]

So much effort is needed to protect the population from law enforcement. It seems to be getting worse.

[@bartblack8054]

Truth.

[@tenkaiechi01]

It is. We are well on our way to the "star trek cannon" sanctuary zones.

[@thecannaiseur1535]

@@tenkaiechi01They put their real intentions in movies, books, music, and games. Then when people people realize it and call them out in it, they claim those people are nuts and have been watching too much television or playing too many video games to make said person/people seem crazy. You mentioned the “sanctuary zones” That sounds like the 15 minute cities that they want here in America. Could you imagine a world where there a 15 minute cities that a barricaded off much like in say the Twisted Metal show. There would still be people outside the cities, but they’d be the desperate and dangerous ones. Sure, they may not have weapons attached to cars, but it could be a bad scenario nonetheless. Mad Max and The Postman would be other similar type movies. Not saying this WILL happen, but kinda makes a person wonder sometimes. Hell, they could keep people in the “sanctuary cities” with those DEWs they used in Hawaii. Wouldn’t that be some crap. Everywhere outside the cities just burned down to nothing, making it practically impossible for people to hunt and survive

[@KathyJensen-vh2yk]

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[@billbrasky1288]

The FBI are the worst ones

[@stevenlennaman2073]

Train tracks run through the edge of my property line and, many times a day, stop on my property line before running through the train yard in town. Now, the PD/FBI gets to see me traveling across a few states along the train tracks.

[@jakek584265]

Never admit to placing the device on another vehicle, like a semi truck. Never admit to finding it. They will have to prove that you did. Also never place one of these things on a Long Haul truck if there are cameras about. Never stop at an isolated rest stop or scenic view, in the middle of the night while traveling. where there are usually no cameras.

[@muzzlevelocity4397]

Best would be in you knew a trucker who was cool, and good with taking it for a ride, all while later claiming he knew nothing about it, of course. If you get accused of removing the tracker, say 'What tracker? WTF are you talking about? Did you put a tracker on my car!?!

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

@@muzzlevelocity4397 The amount of plausible deniability the car owner has is through the roof! "Oh yeah, I found this thing I thought was a bomb stuck to my car so I reported it to the ATF"

[@MrRobreg]

Being physically observed in public, is completely different than being digitally tracked by a device in public

[@thepatriot6966]

You'd better throw your mobile phone away then

[@jerradwilson]

Some cities have law enforcement cameras everywhere that capture license plates and track their movements. Not saying it's a bad thing, they recently captured a gang member who shot and killed a small child in road rage incident in Lancaster, CA this way.

[@ml-fishing1341]

@@jerradwilsonyea but what will they do to stop gangs from forming? Nothing…

[@videogamerNattie98]

​@@thepatriot6966 The point is in the public sphere your going to be seen by people on the outside but in the private sphere you shouldn't be seen without your permission. Yes your device does give data to some extent but you want to know the difference? Your phone is a device that benefits you and you have ALOT of freedom on where and how that data is sent, with a tracker its data is being sent to the one who placed it you have no agency on that department if you dont know its there. Its not so much about the data being there, its about the AGENCY you have in that data.

[@videogamerNattie98]

@@ml-fishing1341 It doesn't stop any social gathering because that's not what cameras are designed to do there designed for criminal dissuasion in places where people are often going to be by showing if you do this your going to be caught after the fact which makes them an example to not do that in front of one where people are most likely going to be it creates a safer area for people to travel. A gang can be any social group as a gang can be formed and have it not be illegal until it becomes illegal so what your requesting is realistically impossible regardless of the security measure because your asking a measure to catch something BEFORE it happens when passive measures can only catch something AS its happening.

[@JackDesert]

I actually watched one officer put one on my car. So I drive over the the police station and drop it off at the front desk. Police is fuming. Judge said "You put it there, he returned it. As far as I am concerned he returned your property... that said... is there anyone that can produce that search warrant needed to put the tracker on it in the first place because I don't have a copy." My lawyer perked up and the judge said "Hold it, save that for the clerk, separate case there"

[@brucesweatman2146]

AND WITH ALL SEARCH WARRANTS, A COPY MUST BE GIVEN TO YOU, TO MAKE IT LEGAL, UNDER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, DURING THE SERVING OF SAID WARRANT. SO ANYWAYS YOU'RE SCREWED. THE BEST WAY I EVER SAW A TRACKER AND COPS FUCK WITH, WAS ON MY UNCLE'S CAR THEY FOUND ONE, NOT THAT LONG THERE BY THEIR TECH GUYS LOOKING AT IT??? WELL, THEY SET UP THIS STREET FOR ABOUT EIGHT BLOCK FROM THIS ONE POINT ON THE STREET IN BOTH WAYS. SO, WHEN THE TRACKER GOES ON THE STREET/ IT JAMED. SO, THEY DRIVE THE 7 BLOCKS DOWN THIS STREET WHERE THE PO-PO DOES NOT KNOW? AND RIGHT INTO A CRUSHER IN A JUNKYARD 8 MINUTES LATER THE THREE-TON CAR IS A BLOCK 2.5 FEET BY 2.0 FEET BY 3.0 FEET TALL? YOU GET THE PICTURE. TO TOP IT ALL OFF HE HAD THE CAR BLOCK DELIVERED TO THE FRONT OF THE POLICE STATION, THREE NIGHTS LATER....THINK THEY GOT THE MESSAGE BUT THAT WAS THE CLASS WAY TO DO IT..HE RETURNED THERE PROPERTY!?!...LMAO.

[@AT-fz2tv]

@@brucesweatman2146 CAPS LOCK IS SO COOL!

[@ZhmiKnopa]

@@AT-fz2tvRANDOM QUESTION MARKS ARE COOLER?

[@DeusTex-Mex]

Very real story that definitely happened.

[@a6am3mn0n]

@@brucesweatman2146 CAPSLOCK MEANS EVERYTHING SAID IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE

[@Ieatpeople2]

i purchased a brand new Kia Soul from a dealer, and they installed a tracker (finance company made them, which is crazy because i have a 790 credit score with no late payments ever). I removed it the 1st week i owned the car, its been 3.5yrs since and I've never heard a word about it.

[@davidbeckenbaugh9598]

My neighbor found one on her daughter's car and asked me if I knew what it was. I told her to let me handle it and to have her daughter give me a call when she was at work and would be there for at least six hours. I drove a hundred miles into the mountains, hiked four miles up a trail, pulled out the tracker and totally smashed it. We never heard anything back on it but she could not have been charged with doing anything at all with it as she was clocked into work the entire time. For myself, I would drive out to the Olympic Peninsula (not TOO far from my place) and toss it into the trees at the bottom of the gorge at High Bridge. I would throw it into the trees because i still want it to track. Go ahead, guys, go look for it. I don't have it so I did not steal it. That's.. what, 600 feet to the bottom? And people killed there pretty often trying to climb the vertical wall to the bottom.

[@kevinlee7263]

What if you happened to park next to a police car somewhere, and somehow, the tracker fell off of your vehicle and accidentally got attached to the police car?

[@robertschmidt9296]

That could happen. It fell off yours, bounced and got stuck on theirs.

[@andrewmcgibbon9785]

What if you are driving past a rail yard and put the tracker on a train car?

[@foogod4237]

To be clear, *it's a really bad idea* to try deliberately "making" this happen (by actually moving the device to a patrol car yourself). If you are caught, you can be charged with tampering with a police vehicle, which can get you in a _lot_ of hot water very quickly. Yes, it's a double-standard, but it's still real, and you really don't want to find yourself on the wrong end of it.

[@Slithey7433]

@@foogod4237 That could be construed as doing your civic duty and returning it to the owner. 😊

[@geronimo5537]

meh a waste of time. place it in a box, concrete the box, leaving the item undamaged, and have them come pick it up. they will love that.

[@unknown000001000]

How I think it should be: If there's a tracker placed on your vehicle and you neither consented nor were you previously given a court order to have it on your vehicle, then that tracker is now yours to do with as you please and the police have forfeited all rights related to it. :3

[@NegativeROG]

Your Honor, I thought they hid a gift, like the police were working with Santa AND the Easter Bunny.

[@phyl1283]

Oh no. The police will go to the court and with the cooperation of an impartial judge who will find you guilty of something they conjure up and will fine you ten times the value of the device plus the exhorbitant cost of the police investigation, sentence you to 6 months in jail and put a lien on any property that you own until they feel like they have applied the obscure law that was passed in the year 1867 regarding farm implements stolen during the civil war and which were used to produce food for the US Army before they were stolen. Justice will have been served and all will be right with the world. That's the legal system is the ole US of A. Flusche is right. NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE. EVER.

[@JebusHypocristosX]

What tracker? It would be on its way around the world on a cargo ship. They have to prove YOU found their tracker and it didn't just fall off or get taken by somebody else.

[@Sniperboy5551]

Search warrants are (initially, at least) sealed though, you wouldn’t know if the courts granted one. That would defeat the whole point of issuing a search warrant.

[@robertschmidt9296]

​@@JebusHypocristosXmy guess is that it was on your vehicle so it's your responsibility.

[@bryanpetersen1334]

Love how the cop does the hand wash after placing the tracker.

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

Seeing there's no way to know who put it there, and they put it on YOUR vehicle, you should absolutely be able to do whatever you want with it.

[@mikesbarn1858]

If the tracker is unmarked it could be from someone who means you harm. If it is from the police consider it a gift to do with as you please. If you do deal in drugs go to an abandoned building for 15-20 minutes then park at mayors house chief of police and 2 city council members for 5-10 minutes each.

[@vanguard9067]

Oooo, nefarious! Perfect

[@ronv6637]

You forgot the anonymous call to the DEA about the corrupt cops dealing drugs, extortion, prostitution,illegal gambling. Just wait for the swat team and guys in blue windbreakers,they hate competition.

[@htoddgriffin4787]

Brilliant!

[@rsrt6910]

That... is fucking hilarious! I was personally going to call the bomb squad, but your idea is sooo much more fun!

[@7heRedBaron]

If it’s the property of the police, it is certainly someone who means you harm.

[@kennethbowden4129]

I think it would be hilarious if someone found a tracker drove to a court house or city hall then reported a suspicious object attached to their car.

[@tricitymorte1]

I would've called 911 😂 Make the police come out and have to explain that it's their device that they attached to my vehicle, then demand to see the warrant that permitted them to do so.

[@grondhero]

Call the media, too. See if you can get them to show up before the police do. 😆

[@robnorris4770]

Good luck getting reimbursed when the b*mb squad disables the suspicious device, along with your vehicle. There are a few unfortunate individuals litigating for reimbursement from the police/government for destroying their homes or businesses by mistake. They of course take no responsibility for their actions, even when they admit it is 100% their error.

[@ralphholiman7401]

The old ones we used at first (which weren't even GPS) were much bigger, and actually looked a little like a bomb. We had one guy spot one while filling up with gas at a service station. He went inside and called the police and saiid that he thought that someone had put a bomb under his car. We sat and watched the bomb squad show up, and had to pull them off to the side and tell them what it really was.

[@FC-qe1wl]

@@tricitymorte1 They would never admit it is their tracker

[@lowercherty]

We all voluntarily carry a tracking device in our pockets, our cell phone. Google says we can opt out of tracking but....

[@twothreefour234]

Amazon sells fariday bags that prevent any signal getting through. Works great.

[@dads1962]

cops dont have unfetrered access to your Google account..

[@dads1962]

​@@twothreefour234amazon does not sell them. A company on Amazon does...

[@michaelsarahbahrt2681]

For now...😬🧐

[@PTWMedia]

Even better, that device is also tracked by their cell carrier via radio access network records. All it takes is a warrant and they can get info on wherever that device has been.

[@bradswiftfur6924]

So, here's a question. As a delivery driver, I have had to enter secured facilities - like U.S. Government secured, to the point they take mirrors and look under your truck, raise the hood and check the engine compartment, you get the idea. So, what if some gov't agent/,soldier/armed security guard finds said device and removes it (and I don't even know about it)?

[@aaronthomas6155]

They'll notify you of the device prior to removing it....

[@dads1962]

Most delivery trucks are GPSed now..

[@chadwayne165]

We found one on a wrecked trailer we recovered a few years ago, called local Leo before leaving tow Co yard, they said it wasn't theirs. It belonged to the Feds. Called them, they claimed it wasn't theirs, we proceeded to where insurance company wanted trailer taken too. We got 20 miles from tow yard and got pulled over by no less than 12 black suburbans with armed men. After 4 hours, it was determined that some part time desk jocky failed to close case after trailer was involved in a major crash 7 months earlier. Gota love part time fed workers who can't do the simple job of a little paperwork.

[@TheMeepster72]

And that that little outing to intercept you probably cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[@JimboJuice]

@@TheMeepster72 lets be reasonable, it was probably only a single hundred thousand dollars.

[@PIGGEBANK]

But there aren't part time fed workers like that? lol

[@SvendleBerries]

That seems to be a common theme throughout all of government. Nobody knows anything when YOU need answers from them, but when THEY need something from _us_ theyre always hiding in a bush in your front yard ready to pounce because you owe them a dollar. Only to find out it was actually paid off years ago.

[@grampydeathblade2217]

So what you're saying is you were unlawfully detained due to an illegal tracking device....know any lawyers?

[@gaiustacitus4242]

Magistrates will issue not only search warrants but also arrest warrants when the facts do not even begin to meet the statutory requirements. These people are grossly incompetent and should not have any authority whatsoever.

[@eltorocal]

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight, that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced, or objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.” Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” - Ayn Rand

[@tomogden2432]

In a lot of places, the position of magistrate exists solely to provide a rubber stamp for LEOs seeking warrants.

[@21warmasters]

agreed magistrates are just glorified assistant judges who perform busywork, they should have 0 power to issue any warrants of any kind

[@subvertedworld]

@@tomogden2432 Pretty much everywhere.

[@AaronCMounts]

Thankfully, most states don't have magistrates with that power. That said, it'd be nice if Congress were to restrict the power to sign warrants solely to judges.

[@heavystarch100]

I found one on a "friend's" car,😂 I simply shorted it out. The tampering wasn't visible. I told said friend to park the car in front of his house and surveill it. One winter night at 3 in the morning, they retrieved it. They tried again, rinse repeat. After the second attempt, no further incidents.

[@nothanksnopenoname6403]

I’d call for a ride and start parking in random places till they remove it. They’d be chasing squirrels till I get bored of getting rides to go sit there to watch them come check the car. 😂

[@darrennew8211]

It could have been put there by a private investigator or stalker, so I can't imagine it could ever be illegal to remove it.

[@geoffdundee]

@darrennew8211 .....drug barons also put trackers on cars of their mules so they can track bulk drug deliveries

[@jamesbizs]

It’s not illegal to remove it. They are saying it’s illegal to throw it away or damage it, or etc

[@0ooTheMAXXoo0]

@@jamesbizsIf you fought that hard enough, you would win. How is it not a gift or free like a flyer put on your car? How can the person in the dark be blamed for not knowing why the object was there in the first place? You put an object on my property, you do not get to blame me if I toss it in the garbage... The prosecution would have to convince a jury that it was theft when it is just an object left on your private property...

[@john-ic5pz]

whoops, it fell off. I didn't throw it away.

[@muddyhotdog4103]

@@john-ic5pz Ikr.. or actually "what GPS tracker? You were tracking me, wink wink?" Then after that you say "well it must've fallen off"

[@jphogannet]

Idea. Have your attorney file it with the secretary of state as "found" property. In order to claim it, they have to identify themselves as the owner with documentation. And this information will be FOIA obtainable so you will know who is doing it. After X days, it becomes yours. Wondering out loud. Is it a crime to put a tracker on the police?

[@johnwesley256]

I agree, it should fall under abandoned property law. Also I think tracking a police vehicle should be allowed, but in my state it's against the wire-tapping law. I disagree with the courts decision on this because the police car belongs to the public and it should be our right to know what is being done with public property by public officials on our dime.

[@jphogannet]

@@johnwesley256 The reason to discover who did it, then you can get the warrant or otherwise obtain the name of the person who actually put the device on the vehicle. Depending on the local statues, you can probably get that person charged under the "theft of energy" statues if they are broad enough since they do NOT require that you benefit from the loss of energy only that you cause more energy to be used for a purpose the person paying would have been unaware of. (Used to charge people who charge their personal phones at work if they don't tell their bosses.) Since the extra weight WILL cause an infintesimal increase in the cost of operating the car...

[@lunatik9696]

@@johnwesley256 Protect and Serve - who? definitely not us.

[@tomogden2432]

@@lunatik9696 - "To protect and serve" was never anything more than a PR slogan. The SCOTUS has ruled that LEOs have no legal obligation to protect OR serve the citizenry. Their primary obligation is to uphold the law (at which they consistently fail).

[@sd906238]

Police vehicles are public property.

[@MicJaguar]

Also consider this. I worked in I.T for a major oil company in Texas. They put theae on the Company man trailers and on certain trucks hidden desguised as fake batteries etc. It was to track theft. But sometimes they forgot to remove them. A lot of trucks after 50k miles will get aold or auctiined off. So sometimes its just some dead unit.

[@Pr0toPoTaT0]

Great video idea! So unique! Glad youtube recommended me this!

[@MattGarZero]

Found a GPS device on my work truck and tossed it in a dumpster. A week later, there were two uniformed officers and a detective at my door asking where the device was. I played dumb and they made some vague legal threats, but ultimately left empty handed. I moved out of state not too long after that, and never heard anything about it again. I still have no idea why they were tracking me.

[@spaceflight1019]

Did Hugo Weaving tell you that "what good is a phone call if you're unable to speak?" Mr. Anderson?

[@ronv6637]

Did you ask for the warrant? Then tell them they are under arrest for trespassing and stop resisting

[@eltorocal]

Matt... how long were you in Massachusetts?

[@raymondmesa8258]

Wow that not right they harassed you after they placed the device without your permission and it isn’t right.

[@BlackEpyon]

It's a tracker. Tell them to go track it.

[@goodluckyoureonyourown3684]

I've always wondered why putting a flyer on your car isn't considered littering. Now I'm wondering why the police putting a tracker on your car isn't also littering?

[@larrybergman6075]

It wouldn't be littering, I think it would be more along the lines of invasion of privacy.

[@thailine75]

Not a lawyer: If someone puts a flyer on your car, they intend for you to read it, and the first amendment lets them do it. If you then throw it on the floor, you do not intend anyone to read it, so it's littering. Personally, I think the next person to use my parking place will want to read the flyer, so I kindly leave it on the floor with the intent that they read it.

[@Ziffel22]

In Las Vegas it is considered littering but it still happens because littering isn't prioritized.

[@EventHoriXZ0n]

Littering is about tossing trash on public property.

[@franklyanogre00000]

​@@EventHoriXZ0nYup. This is illegal dumping. Slightly different.

[@richardstorm4603]

If I was in a jury for someone accused of throwing away a tracker, they certainly would not get a guilty verdict from me 'legal or not' or search warrant or not.

[@RoseKindred]

The scary part, it is legal in many areas for a civilian to put one on as long as it is done in a public area. If the driver finds it, they can be charged if they destroy it. The law needs to catch up with tech.

[@Wrangzilla]

They have to prove that it was you who removed it. "I had no idea one was on my car and it must have fell off somewhere". You're not obligated to keep track of their tracker....

[@dancalvin6340]

I don't care what laws they claim

[@PlottingTheDownfall]

I had one on my car once. Why? I was an Amway distributor that sponsored someone into my downline that was associated with the Montana Freemen. The FBI thought that because I was holding meetings, wearing a suit, and had observed me going into and out of a John Birch bookstore (where one of my downline worked) I was somehow associated with their "patriot" movement. I ended up placing the tracker on a patrol car parked at a wal-mart. Several months later, just before the big stand-off, I had US Marshalls take me into custody and questioned me about a number of things. Of course, I knew my rights, and all they got from me was my name, dob, address and blank stares until my attorney arrived. Nothing happened to me; it was fun to watch their faces as my attorney had me spend an hour showing them the Amway plan and how downlines worked LOL.

[@bellakaldera3305]

Amway? Amway has always been a racket, are you sure it wasn't put on your car because of Amway?

[@paulw.woodring7304]

I think your solution is pretty funny, but I want to let anyone else reading this know that Amway is a multi-level marketing scam that will leave you broke-ass if you get involved, stuck with a basement full of products nobody wants, and all of your friends and family mad at you for pestering them to buy that sh*t. Also, Amway is owned by and enriches the DeVoss family, a bunch of right-wing fundamentalist Christian fanatic billionaires who are trying to destroy public education in this country (remember Trump's Education Secretary Betsy D.), among other right-wing f*ckery.

[@dangerousliberty]

Did you make a sale?🤔

[@raygunsforronnie847]

@@dangerousliberty Is a can of Amway Shoe Spray still the gift for sitting through the pitch?

[@khanwashere264]

ARE YOU STILL SELLING AMWAY PRODUCTS ?

[@Urbanity_Kludge]

I can't believe that everyone, especially Andrew, missed the most obvious answer. When your find a tracker on your car, CALL YOUR ATTORNEY.

[@onbored9627]

The lady calling the naacp first did make me laugh, not gonna lie.

[@LeafBoye]

​@@onbored9627why?

[@onbored9627]

@@LeafBoye I don't know. Laughter just happens sometimes.

[@troodon1096]

@@LeafBoye Because what can they do about it? What would they be willing to do about it?

[@Urbanity_Kludge]

Call your attorney because it means the government thinks you are doing something illegal. If they are right, you're in deep dodo and need help. If they are wrong, you're still in deep dodo and need a lawyer to shake them off.

[@quantumalchemy]

You are very thorough. I really like your videos. There are other "lawyers" with similar channels, and they just make wild claims with no history. Example: A contractor had a dumpster at a homeowner's property and the homeowner filled the bin (one of those metal cans with rollers that they load on a flatbed truck when its full so they can take it away. Well, the contractor claims the homeowner did not pay so he loaded the dumpster up and dumped it on his lawn/driveway. The "lawyer" said it’s legal for the contractor to dump it. I see it as illegal dumping, (because he took possession of the bin by loading it on the truck to be able to dump it out on the driveway) public menacing, (historically, mafia ran trash collection and would pull this crap when businesses would not pay the extortion fees and there is tons of federal case law where this is viewed as public menacing. ) disturbing the peace (caused neighbors to come out of their houses to see what the commotion was), and private property damage. (In the video it looked like the truck damaged some lights and lawn ornaments.) The proper place to settle that dispute is in small claims court. If the homeowner is in the wrong the court will order the return of his property and any costs and fees associated with its recovery will be charged to the homeowner through a court order. that is my best non lawyer sleuthing. lol how wrong am I? What upset me is it seemed like the lawyer was condoning this person taking matters into their own hands.

[@gilbertsandoval1888]

I did some dumb things in my past and worse yet one of my friends was a distributor of plant material from Mexico. He did discover said item and went to local train station and put it in an empty freight car of a train headed east. It was a Burlington Northern & Santa Fe. He left his car in the parking lot and paid for a week. They did recover it in a huge switch yard outside of Riverside, CA 😁

[@paulstimpson830]

In my jurisdiction, there are anti-stalking laws. If I attached such a device to my former lover's or a public figure's car without their consent, I would, quite rightly, be prosecuted. I would call that law "exhibit A" against the assertion that we have no expectation of privacy in a public place.

[@SpicyTexan64]

It would be called precedent

[@Longbowgun]

An illegally placed tracker could be used in a case against the police for harassment.

[@Namo-xx1sz]

well i doubt you'd have a warrant to attach it to your lover car ;) it's a device and it has it's usage, nothing abnormal there, the real issue seem to be how easy getting that warrant seem to be

[@christianbarnay2499]

@@Namo-xx1sz The usage of any GPS tracking device is to track YOUR OWN property. Using it to track someone else's property is misusing it and solid evidence that you are stalking or harassing.

[@nautifella]

One of my neighbors builds custom industrial machine parts. While at work this past summer, they watched as somebody placed a tracking device on an employee's truck. They removed it and put it on a truck making a delivery to Canada.

[@gbkworf]

I always figured if I found such a device on my car I would go to a truck stop and stick it on a long haul trucker's truck. Let them track it across the country!

[@johnweb7055]

Great video. I’m a criminal defense attorney and the public should be aware of this issue. P.S. for whatever it’s worth, the trial court judge should never have signed the warrant. The appellate court got it right.

[@dougtaylor7724]

At a gas station I observed a lady looking under her car. She had dropped her keys and saw the box when she picked up her keys. She ask me what is was and the thing had gps tracker written on it. She was recently divorced and said her husband was a bad person. I pointed to a truck and said I wonder where that thing is going. Last time I saw her she was walking towards the truck with the tracker in hand. Always wondered what state he found it in?

[@digimaks]

She should of recorder on her phone that tracker being under her car, and then put it on truck. She would have a nice legal kickback against that moron husband for illegaly tracking her.

[@VanOutloud]

He probably thought she ran off with a trucker. Still stocking her back and forth across the country, That Hussy!

[@getinthespace7715]

Rule #1 never answer questions. Reserve your right to remain silent and ask for an attorney. If you remove the device and leave it somewhere... Don't tell anyone. They can't prove you did it unless they get you on video or something.

[@annelarrybrunelle3570]

You can wear gloves . . .

[@friedpotatoesa1083]

Burys it in block of cement wrapped in tin foil thrown in the ocean, im sorry i had a boating accident..

[@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst]

@@friedpotatoesa1083 I would leave it in the back seat of a taxi.

[@jimmywoolever798]

even if they got you on video, you just say "I found a suspicious object on my vehicle, I removed it." Have fun watching them try to argue that civilians aren't allowed to remove unknown mysterious objects from their own property.

[@TRUTHandLIGHT4809]

It can always fall off

[@dakotastricklin9596]

There was one on mine at one point. No warrant, no notice, nothing. Laws here are very plain about it abandoned property here. I let it stay for the appropriate time and then took it in my house. Now it's mine. They tried taking me to court but as i told them, i haven't went to court over it. I just took ownership of abandoned property. But if you guys want to make this public and rat yourselves out go for it. It got dropped pretty fast.

[@iviaverick52]

5:04 this actually makes me really happy to see a local government with a functional moral compass.

[@mchristiansen137]

My friend found two, one for each of his vehicles. He found out where they came from, (State Wildlife and fish). He took them off, went one State over, (Alabama to Mississippi), packed them in a box with 25 pounds of sand and shipped them back C.O.D. They placed them on his 4 wheeler's which were inside a closed structure, in the middle of the night.

[@tricitymorte1]

OOOH, that's potentially multiple violations!

[@charleswieand4445]

Pack in box box of talcum powder and ship to Iran.

[@felixq723]

Why is Alabama Fish and Wildlife breaking into places and putting trackers on cars? Don't they only care about like, poaching and habitat destruction?

[@peted2770]

@@felixq723 You may have just answered your own question.

[@felixq723]

@@peted2770 If that's the case, then tbh, F him, I hope the law comes for him with all they've got and more. Poaching and habitat destruction are just animal abuse on a large scale. Animal abusers get no sympathy for anything.

[@PaleoMeat]

Attached to a random car with out of state plates at the Flying J sounds like a great way to give it back.

[@JebusHypocristosX]

Ship it on a cargo ship to an island in the middle of nowhere.

[@dangeary2134]

@@JebusHypocristosXfunny you say that… I knew a guy that was on my fleet division in the company I signed onto. We loved outdoing each other in a friendly game of who was better. He gives me a call one day, “Julie gave me a call while I was in the middle of Lake Michigan!” He took the ferry between Green Bay and a place close to Grand Rapids, Michigan. >>downright evil, conniving grin

[@pokerman9108]

so many fun things one could do. Im sure the judge would be happy to find it on their car...

[@jeffmansfield914]

I wouldn’t do that to someone else. They don’t deserve the hassle, either.

[@adamt4742]

I was thinking of a semi with canadian plates on it :D

[@PlayingInVestapol]

I was helping a Neighbor change his oil and notice one on his car. So we had some fun. We drove all the way to the Georgia/Florida stateline and put it in the bathroom of a Rest Stop and headed home. we never heard anything of it and never knew why it was on his car.

[@edwinharrison5992]

If i find anything on my car that shouldn't be its legal to remove it , we the people need to start standing up against tyrrany

[@kevinlieby2798]

What fun! It should be no trouble to drive to a different jurisdiction, contact the law enforcement there about the "recently found" device, and then let them investigate the "stalkers" that are tracking you.

[@holy3979]

I am guessing that a lot of the trackers have serial numbers and are probably only sold to the government, wouldn't be too hard to figure out who it belonged to.

[@robriggott1171]

Better yet, park outside a Federal courthouse, get out for a short walk, and drop your keys unlocking the door of your car. While picking up the keys, "notice" the tracker, call 911, report it as a suspected bomb somebody attached to your car now parked outside a Federal courthouse. Also, in a panic, call the local news, they love this type of drama, they'll send a TV crew to report on it. Refuse to move your car, stand back and watch the shit show. Oh, don't forget to record the shit show on your phone. Share it on KZbin.

[@riverpubby]

@@robriggott1171 holy shit 🤣🤣🤣

[@SovereignTurkey]

@@holy3979 trackers are probably more accessible than you think. at the very least there are many commercial companies that use trackers to track their own vehicles. beyond that they may even be available to people that want to track their own vehicle if it gets stolen.

[@margaretwordnerd5210]

@@robriggott1171 oooh, you're hard core chaotic!😁

[@georgeradulescu7175]

Ah yes, the GPS tracker, for when you don't have enough probable cause to get a warrant, but you just know that person is up to something!

[@danak963]

Thank you for answering my question about destroying the tracker ( which would be my first inclination, no matter who attached it ) Going one step further: After you find it in your driveway and remove it, can you then drive to some other location to destroy / disable it?? That way, its last tracking location would be somewhere other than your home address, thus avoiding a search warrant of your home??

[@1BigBen]

a find a tracker on your, you fine a car of a judge, a lawyer, a rich person with a lot of lawyers or local shady politician

[@DougAlesUSA]

Simple. Box up the device. Send it to an US address that does not exist yet is as far away from you as possible such as an address you confirmed is not real in San Juan Puerto Rico. Next, include a return address that does not exist and is also incredibly far away from the first address such as gnome, Alaska. Ship it ground so it takes a good month to get to its final destination. Add a box inside the box, with postage prepaid, to a third address, and so on.

[@clefsan]

Next-Level Trolling for Masters of the Troll Arts 🤣🤣🤣

[@phyl1283]

That town in Alaska is Nome, not Gnome, dummy.

[@captainotto]

Imagine being the cops trying to make use of the tracking info they get from the device. "What the hell is he doing? He doesn't work at a UPS distribution center. What is his car doing on the runway at Atlanta International?"

[@jgmartin307]

​@@captainottoHow the hell did he just drive to Puerto Rico?

[@jgmartin307]

Considering legend has it, Nome got its name because some official DC cartographer misread a notation 'Name?' because another cartographer left it off, Gnome is just as legit. I'm writing it as Gnome from now on. 😂

[@coleramus561]

If you find a tracker, put it in your back seat and drive to a convenience store. Buy some aluminum foil. Then drive to a public park and wrap the tracker in ALL the aluminum foil. Then put it in a plastic store bag, walk it over to the trash can, and make a deposit. This way, it goes offline at a location that's NOT your house and never comes back online. Go home, clean house, and never talk about the tracker to anyone, ever. Bear in mind that you will know they have NO evidence the tracker is in your house and wasn't when it went offline. Trackers aren't free, and the more the police lose, the less inclined they'll be to use them on a regular Joe.

[@DavidM2002]

Skip the foil. Let them track it to the dump. If you're really bored, hang around a few days and see if they come for it.

[@lorenzoboyd6889]

Wear gloves before touching the device

[@garryb374]

Don't incriminate yourself by saying you know the tracking device cannot be in your house because you wrapped it in foil somewhere else. I would say, if you find it just drop it while driving somewhere. Wear gloves so there are no fingerprints except of those that planted it and forget about it, but keep checking your vehicle for trackers... which is near impossible these days really because they can be tiny and disguised as part of the car. The other option would be to report it to the police and hand it over and let them either admit it is theirs or having them try to track down who put it there if it was a private eye or a stalker.

[@azpont7275]

I’d probably just sell it on Ebay lmao. Their loss is my gain.

[@slamshift6927]

Advise wearing gloves for this procedure.

[@Canthus13]

Don't throw it away. Put it on a semi at a truck stop and if someone says something... "HUh? What tracker? Maybe someone stole it."

[@guitarman727]

Good information!! Thanks

[@ralphholiman7401]

The bad news is, police very seldom use car trackers any more. Once they had to go to the trouble of getting a warrant to put one on and monitor, it, then it really became not that much more trouble to just get a court order to track your phone. That was true when I retired years ago. It's probably more true now.

[@jonbottoms8988]

I read an article a few weeks ago. Honda was voluntarily handing over all data collected from owners phones while connected to the Bluetooth system. No warrant no nothing. Makes you wonder if all car manufacturers do the same or will.

[@docgiggles130]

@@jonbottoms8988 They do. The GM OnStar has had lots of bad press for this. Their people have even been known to listen in on people just for fun. I bought a car that had OnStar and the first thing I did was pull the fuse for it. I didn't drive it much and I didn't want the battery to drain. A week later I had a letter from GM letting me know my OnStar wasn't working and to go to the nearest dealer to get it fixed. The car wasn't even registered in my name yet (bank was having issues getting the money to the dealer) but they knew who to send it to.

[@jayden7945]

@@jonbottoms8988 Your data was never under lock and key, if the police requests your data from basically any company 9 times out of 10 they will hand it over

[@Shrimp_Insurance]

@@jayden7945 Yeah there was a gun safe company a few months ago that handed over the combinations of some of their customers safes to the cops without any resistance. Also Ring cameras and similar services are more than happy to hand over your videos and give the cops live access to your cameras. Plenty of companies that don't give a shit about their customer's privacy

[@ralphholiman7401]

How do you think the FBI got all that location data on the January 6 protesters to see who went into the Capitol? That guy who did 2000 Mules, did the same thing, because you can buy that data as a private citizen as well.

[@michaelanthony1797]

It could always "Fall off" and roll into a ditch.

[@krane15]

Or into a trash compactor.

[@Andrewflusche]

Fall off into the Mighty Mississip

[@garysprandel1817]

Might " accidentally " fall off and attach itself to a sea can shipping container on a stack train passing through town. Ends up on one of the coasts at minimum and at best whoever put it on is wondering what you're doing in China.

[@oldschoolartist]

Put it on a police car and watch the hilarity ensue.😂

[@barrynicholls3467]

I have found that most electronics will not survive 20 seconds in a microwave. If you find a device on your car give it a quick microwave and put it back on your car. 🤣

[@TanyaSapienVintage]

Remember, there's no law that says the container you return the tracking device to them in can't also contain two pounds of ultrafine glitter.

[@Honer_300]

So, you’re saying pull a mark rober. I like this idea

[@longshucksgaming]

I...I don't think that's correct but I don't know enough to tell you otherwise. Also, I really want this to be correct

[@willcal2738]

bacon grease bucket, sorry! sunk right down before i could catch it, crazy freak accident!

[@texasgirlmomx2342]

As the mom of 2 girls and AVID crafter...TWO pounds of ultra fine glitter would be EPIC. And a MESS for the ages to clean up😂😂

[@BruceWest-gn1qm]

Love it.

[@miscme7116]

Found a police GPS tracker on my car a long time ago. Went and attached it on an inter-city bus. Nothing happened from it but it always brought a smile on my face thinking how some people must have been sitting, looking at the screen and thinking WTF is happening.

[@chad1755]

Most of these trackers don't transmit live data, they passively record GPS, and then must be retrieved later to have the trail downloaded from it. The owners probably never knew where it went and would have simply just never seen it again.

[@actuallyrat]

@@chad1755 How would the cops know where to retrieve it from?

[@----.__]

@@actuallyrat Much in the same way the cops knew where to place it. If they have a suspect in mind, know his vehicle, know his house, know some of his routine, it isn't hard to retrieve the GPS unit.

[@adriancobon7501]

I would do this: 1) Google the mailing address for a small police station in Tibet. 2) Go to the UPS store and order a large, overnight delivery box for electronics. 3) Mail it! 4) Mail the receipt and a letter stating why I am peeved to the state Attorney General. They will pass the info along to the relevant police agency. They will have to reach out to their colleagues on the other side of the globe to get it back!

[@kc8ufv]

Where I used to work, a local attorney's car was bombed by an upset opposing party. I'd be likely to take my car into that jurisdiction and report that I just found a suspicious device attached to my car...

[@the-chillian]

When I found a tracker on my car, I assumed (correctly) that it had been placed there by my soon-to-be ex-wife. Lord knows what she thought she would find. It obviously wasn't a police device, but a model readily available on Amazon. I later found - when the cat had knocked her glasses off the night stand and under the bed, and her lazy ass couldn't be bothered to find them herself, so she asked me to fetch them - that she actually still had the shipping box.

[@mweskamppp]

In my country a wrongly delivered thing to your address needs to be stored for some time in case the one who wrongly sent it to you want it back. So i see different possibilities here. 1. you leave it in place 2. you remove it and keep it in your house 3. you never saw it and it must have fallen off by itself at some random place on a road. possibly on a road trip to a far far away national park or such.

[@alexanderlandsberg7777]

Where I am from, a few years ago some "nice" guys handed over some "useful" gimmicks for you car. Turned out these things were some tracking devices. So these guys waited till they knew your daily routine and just robbed your house. Well, long term short, I live next to a big interstate gas/station and I have no idea, where all these trackers are right now.

[@Dj.MODÆO]

The dealership I worked out found a tracking device on a vehicle that was getting repaired. The owner told the mechanics to get it off if possible and we waited to see who would come get it…..no one ever did, likely because it was placed illegally and they didn’t want it publicly known who placed it there or who was tracking the driver.

[@justicedemocrat9357]

It was me I put it there to track your hot mom.

[@fibonaccisrazor]

Previous owner's boyfriend

[@arbiter1]

@@fibonaccisrazoror girlfriend.

[@Meowsic]

If I found a mysterious black box on my car I would not touch it, I would immediately drive someplace close like a mall, Walmart, or Home Depot parking lot that's wide and empty (for safety reasons) versus if I found it in my driveway in a residential neighborhood, and I would be calling 911 telling the police I suspect there may be a bomb attached to my vehicle, and I would call the media on top of that all about 20 minutes before the 6 o'clock news since this would be of interest to the public media if it does (not) turn out to be a bomb. Lucy would have a lot of 'splaining to do in front of the cameras.

[@MichaelMoore99]

Call the media first before the police so they are already on-scene when the police arrive.

[@TheEpicSpire]

in Tennesse we have a Castle Doctrine and this also extends to vehicles being and extension of your home. if i find a tracker on my car, i'll simply sell it on ebay

[@neil999ish]

Saw an episode of 'Moonshiner's' where a detective they are sure put a tracker on Mark or Diggers car. They found it and put on an interstate vehicle. Never heard any more about it on the following episodes.

[@niagarajoe4402]

I had a buddy who was under investigation for narcotics….we found a tracker on his car…..so we took it off and put it onto a GoBus, it went to near by cities and back everyday. They didn’t bring it up after they arrested him. We had proof since we recorded what we did with the tracker once we found it. I’d love to have seen them “tracking” a bus route over and over again 😂 (ps my friend had a charges dropped because the police broke policy a bunch of times)

[@chobiden7770]

get better friends

[@niagarajoe4402]

@@chobiden7770 most loyal ones….unlike how you’d be, cooperating with the tyrant pigs

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

@@chobiden7770 Probably, although there can be some pretty questionable reasons for being targeted by narcotics officers.

[@jimarcher5255]

So he’s still selling drugs to kids.

[@niagarajoe4402]

@@jimarcher5255 kids? And was under “investigation” do you live in a place where you are guilty until proven innocent?! Nazi Germany?

[@Lovuschka]

How is he supposed to know the tracker is from the FBI? It could be from some crazy stalker, or other kinds of criminals.

[@pipthebadger3723]

Boy howdy do I have news for you about the overlap between police, obsessive stalkers, and criminality.

[@rayc.1396]

Known person was informed by his mechanic of a tracker on his car. The person who owned the car removed it and installed it on a cops private ride, took a while to figure out who had the tracker, threatened with jail, just laughed and went on his way but checks for tracker everyday or so.

[@i.r.wayright1457]

Find a rural dirt road with lots of ruts, rocks, and/or branches. Drive on that road until you find a spot where it could easily remove the tracker by something on the road knocking it loose. Lay it in your tracks and back over it.

[@justadbeer]

The USPS installed trackers on their freight elevators at one of their large mail sorting plants where I repaired and maintained the elevators. There were six large freights in all. I happened to be on top of one of those units doing some work when I came across a tracker not much bigger than a pack of cigarettes' mounted to an 6" piece of 2x4. It seems they were monitoring the elevator operators (who I became friends with since I was always there fixing the elevators) to see how many trips they were taking. I told the operators about it and gave them the devices. They stuck them into shipping containers headed out of state. A month or so later one of the supervisors asked me if I had seen the devices. I played dumb and asked him what devices? When he confessed to me what they were, I told him that I hadn't, but I did have an apprentice with me that I had clean off the tops of the elevators and he probably threw them out.

[@Crasshole]

I was unaware a GPS tracker could measure in a vertical direction. Interesting.

[@Isaacrl67]

@@Crasshole Found this with a quick search: [ There are two main methods to measure elevation with GPS: absolute and relative. Absolute elevation is the height above a reference level, such as mean sea level or an ellipsoid model of the Earth. Relative elevation is the height difference between two or more points. To measure absolute elevation, you need a GPS receiver that can receive signals from two different frequencies, L1 and L2, which are affected differently by the atmosphere. By comparing the signals, you can correct for the atmospheric errors and get a more accurate elevation. To measure relative elevation, you need two or more GPS receivers that can communicate with each other and calculate the height difference between them. This method is less affected by the atmosphere, but more sensitive to the distance and alignment between the receivers. ]

[@QUIX4U]

@@Isaacrl67 In other words, normal GPS trackers that only SEND OUT one positional horizontal pinpoint location (at a time), could ONLY provide a record of "relative horizontal movements between two map co-ordinates", & thus couldn't possibly alert to vertical movements of any sort, (especially of fixed position, vertical lift elevators)

[@Crasshole]

@@QUIX4U 😅 my question was meant to be kind of a joke. Calling BS on this lil story. I knew the answer. My statement was more to create a question in other people's minds. Get someone thinking, Do some research, create some critical thought, then determine for themselves if this story has merit or not. "A" GPS tracker can't measure a vertical line. An altimeter attached to a recording device can. The device would need to measure both elevation and frequency to measure the data desired by the building owner. Many modern elevators already have systems installed to measure how often an elevator is used, on which floors, weight of each load, etc. A GPS tracker is unnecessary.

[@KipdoesStuff]

total bullshit, lol

[@Doug-wl1ji]

I’ve found 2 police trackers under my car. Once when I was sitting in the car smoking a joint in my parking pad, they didn’t know me and my buddy were in the car. Creeped up and put it under the hood section of the car. When they left I promptly put it under my neighbours car. The second time I found it, I put it on a cop car, the cop was in a tim Hortons at the time lol Both times I never heard a peep about it from the courts or the cops. Told my lawyer about it and he just looked at me like a dog would a sound he doesn’t know hahahaha

[@comikdebris]

Canada has different laws

[@PartytimeYOLO]

would have layed on the horn as they were trying to attach the tracker. yelling "WHY THE F ARE YOU ATTACHING A BOMB TO MY CAR." holding up your phone "im streaming this live.."

[@dansmith1661]

All the cops had to do was get you to open your window and take a whiff.

[@rocoe9019]

What a load of BS !

[@dads1962]

You smoke and drive...😢😢

[@muzzlevelocity4397]

I think that it would be fun to get a rental car for the day and just before returning it, put the tracker on the rental. With a bit of luck, the device would be driven to another state, or better still another country. Track that, a-holes! Going to a camping site and leaving one in the bottom of the outhouse, or a construction site with a porta-potty could work too.

[@kennethjackson7574]

Hmmm . . . I live in an area where there are several ferry routes. Perhaps putting it in some inconspicuous place on a ferry would confuse whoever put it on my car.

[@Terminal-Vet]

There was an issue in my hometown where the local police was going to bars and writing on people's tires with a grease pencil with the time, and when the person left the bar and was pulled over, they could tell how long the person was at the bar. The public outrage caused them to quit it.

[@the_mowron]

There was a supreme court ruling on this issue (it was about marking tires of parked cars to issue tickets for being parked more than 24 hours, or whatever). The courts declared the tire marks to be an unreasonable search.

[@Hershcream]

shocked they even tried this, Someone probably sued for Vandalization.. every time they think there being smart it comes apart.

[@thebrewingsailor9172]

When I first moved to TX I was warned the TABC used to do this. They'd get you for DUI and fine the bar and bartender for overserving. Got in the habit of checking my tires after I left a bar or restaurant.

[@KipdoesStuff]

@@thebrewingsailor9172 easier to not drink and drive.

[@Jmandude5]

@@KipdoesStuff It's the drunk crashers you gotta look out for

[@bf3and4highlights83]

If you are lucky enough to find one of these, head to the local truck stop and look for trailers that have an out of state plate. The farther away the better. If you are really really lucky you'll find one with a canadian plate. All canadian trucks MUST return to their home base after delivering their load and picking one up. Can you imagine how much fun it would be not only crossing multiple state lines but then an international border. I can only imagine the paperwork that would be generated.

[@tricitymorte1]

I feel like required vehicle inspections would cause the device to be found well before the truck even made it to the border.

[@bf3and4highlights83]

@@tricitymorte1 The days of crawling under a trailer are long dead and gone. If you get pulled in at a scale for a gov. inspection then yes there is a chance but other than that I have watched guys miss flat tires on their inspection. Quick light and tire check and we gone. Also some company's put gps on their trailers in case they get stolen. Pallets have gps on them to track loads. So even if spotted whoever wouldn't even give it a second thought.

[@jakelucid9650]

i agree with the interpretation of the supreme court - even though "privacy" cannot fully be maintained, the interior of the vehicle cannot be randomly searched " personal effects" and what not, so my car itself - cannot be searched, and then again - electronically tracking and searching for a car - is in my eyes same thing. get a warrant.

[@SoCoolScience]

I totally agree with him; If I found a tracker on my car; WHOOPS!! it fell off and ended up in the river, i.e. I don't know how the casing got opened?

[@ryokkeno]

Thats gonna backfire spectacularly when someone with a security clearance or a military type goes on a base and the sentry notices the device when they try to enter.

[@GoonyMclinux]

I was going to say that CID would have a field day with something like that. 😂

[@MoreBollocks-ui2zs]

Unless you are going on to a base during a period of heightened security it is unlikely they would ever find such a device. Even then the odds are even they wouldn't spot it.

[@ryokkeno]

@MoreBollocks-ui2zs oh, I'd say that depends on which base, what RAM's are active, and what protection level is required for the assets... But I can definitely see many scenarios where it wouldn't be picked up reliably...

[@MoreBollocks-ui2zs]

@@ryokkeno You'd like to believe that were the case but that hasn't ben the reality for some time. If you've seen a non-commercial vehicle having the mirrors run under it in the last 5 years that's an outlier rather than the norm.

[@dustinbrueggemann1875]

@@MoreBollocks-ui2zs That's why you report it in the parking lot after you "drop your keys"