Crime spree ends thanks to GPS ankle bracelet
Written by admin on March 14th, 2008 in Gadgets.
Posted Mar 13th 2008 12:13PM by Joshua Topolsky
Filed under: GPS
Odds are, if you’re committing a series of robberies while wearing an ankle bracelet put on you by the law, you might not be the brightest bulb in the bunch. That’s exactly what one Ohio resident got up to recently, though unfortunately for him, he was located by the GPS chip embedded in the aforementioned bracelet. Apparently, after six or so burglaries in his neighborhood, police got wise to the situation and pinpointed James Wombles using signals from his fashionable accessory, finding him innocently relaxing in a vehicle filled up with stolen items. The man had no comment, though we imagine upon capture he might have said something like, “Durrr.” Once again GPS technology proves it’s not just for getting cars stuck in cherry trees.
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