So the FBI is out to get you.....

Guy Finds FBI Tracking Device On Car, Posts Pics Online... FBI Shows Up Demanding It Back

More... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201010 ... back.shtml

Just a couple weeks ago, we had written about a federal lawsuit concerning whether or not the Justice Department needs a warrant to put a tracking device on cars. In a very prescient manner, a bunch of our commenters started discussing what would happen if they found such a device on their car, and whether or not it would be legal to remove it. Well, now we have a case of exactly that happening.

Apparently a guy named Yasir Afifi, who lives in Silicon Valley, discovered a strange device on his car, when he took it in for an oil change. The friend he was with, took some photos and posted them to Reddit, asking if it meant the FBI was after them... or if it was a bomb:

Lots of people in the thread quickly confirmed that it was a tracking device, made by a company who only sold to law enforcement. Then, to confirm things, a couple of days later, the FBI showed up to demand he return the device. Wired has a cinematic description of the encounter:

I would attach the device to a freight car on a train.

Better yet - find a 20' container, and attach the device to that!

Why would the FBI use such an outdated device? When for under a $100 any GPS equiped cell phone could do the same thing and more if the “FBI” placed the device inside the car. If you google the device you find many many pages of this same story repeated over and over.
Read the whole story, it just doesn’t add up. I would wager that neither the ACLU or the guy’s lawyer who also happens work for the Council on American Islamic Relations never filed suit.

read more here on Wired.com

October 10, 2010? This is about the third time this has made the outrage-of-the-day rounds... Slow news day?

A suit was filed in March of this year... a simple google search of his name provided that information. Here's one story: http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-03-03/b ... rt-mueller

Why would the "FBI" use such an outdated device when:

iPhone Leads Deputies To Stolen Truck
EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. -- An iPhone left on the front seat of a stolen truck led to the capture of a suspect who may be connected to multiple car break-ins and burglaries in southeastern El Paso County, authorities said Tuesday



The quick-thinking resident immediately began to track the location of the truck through a website that monitors the GPS application on the iPhone, Schaller said.

The man provided the updates to the sheriff's office dispatcher, who relayed the information to deputies searching the area.

The story here on Channel 7

ShilohLady wrote: A suit was filed in March of this year... a simple google search of his name provided that information. Here's one story: http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-03-03/b ... rt-mueller

I should have guessed it would have been a lawyer from the radical Council on American-Islamic Relations.

LadyJazzer wrote: October 10, 2010? This is about the third time this has made the outrage-of-the-day rounds... Slow news day?

Not everyone has seen and known all like you LJ.

LJ know that it is her man, Obama, who is authorizing the illegal tracking of this guy because of his racial profile. Hilarious!