Can we have our bug back?
Man finds tracking device on his car. Removes it, takes pics of it and shows it to his facebook friends. FBI shows up wanting their toy back. All without a warrant.
Personally, I would have had more fun with the gizmo.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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October 8th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Yeah I would have stuck it to the neighbors mini van or taped it to a stray cat. I wounder what this Afifi dude is into that they wanted to track him?
October 8th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Seems like he was guilty of being half-Egyptian and having an activist father. Par for the course for the FBI from back in the Hoover days, really.
October 8th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Well in addition to the activist father (who died last year in Eqypt but they don’t say how), his buddy made an internet posting about blowing up a mall.
October 8th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Dear FBI: I’d like to refer you to the longstanding case of F. Keepers v. L. Weepers, standing for the proposition that it’s now mine. If you would like to purchase it for a reasonable cost, however, let’s go get lunch somewhere. Your tab.
October 8th, 2010 at 10:12 am
Did they get it back in pieces?
October 8th, 2010 at 11:21 am
@Newman: Good idea, but I think relocating it to a long haul truck is the way to go. π
October 8th, 2010 at 11:43 am
I would have taken a poo on it.
October 8th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
I thought putting it on an Intermodel freight train headed East was the proper response. Once the train ended up in the switching yard, who knows where the freight container would end up!
I saw pictures of this device on the CalGuns Forum. It must have been made in the days before miniturization! One part was the size of an old D-cell Maglight and the other was at least 4″x6″.
October 8th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
I think I’d’ve probably already have used it as a target by the time they asked for it back.
October 8th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
The most awesome thing would have been to give it to a hardware hacker friend who could mod it to report GPS locations that were running in circles around the J. Edgar Hoover building.
October 8th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
I’m in on the idea of sticking to a rail freight car and waving bye-bye with an admonition to write soon.
Or, forward it to one of those Nigerian 419 scammers who wanted to buy a computer from me off eBay.
October 8th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
The man is Egyptian? Send it to the US embassy in Tel Aviv. Hilarity ensues.
October 8th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Tie it to a weather balloon?
October 8th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
I’d sell it on Ebay and donate the proceeds to the EFF.
I agree the thing is kinda chunky. I’ve got my one post on this topic here.
October 8th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Just leave the damn thing … in the loo at an Indian casino.
October 8th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
I would put it in a plastic bag, on a makeshift raft, and sail it down the nearest river.
I wonder if they would get it before it got to New Orleans?
I suppose I might get busted for littering, so I suppose rubber gloves would be in order while handling the gadget/bag/raft. I wouldn’t want to lose my “good citizen” badge. On the other hand, what the hell – just insist on a jury trial, and watch them squirm when my lawyer asks the agents involved how much time and effort went in to my case – for littering.
October 8th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
You guys are all thinking too conventional.
Put in a cheap back pack. take it too nearest federal courthouse. Drop it in front of the front doors and run like hell. Report suspicious package. Homeland weanies do the rest.
October 9th, 2010 at 2:15 am
Strap it to some very large model rocket engines, see if they can recover it from low earth orbit π
October 9th, 2010 at 6:49 am
Tape it to a spray painted black brick
place in box
Put in front of FBI office
Report suspicious package.
The FBI would blow it up for you.
October 9th, 2010 at 11:27 am
FedEx it overnight to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20500.
October 10th, 2010 at 3:00 am
I agree on the what is attached to my vehicle becomes my property part 100%. However i think some people misread the court decision, didn’t the ruling say that his car was not protected because it was parked in his driveway that was accessible to anyone? I believe they also alluded to a private fenced off garage as meeting privacy requirements of needing a warrant.
October 10th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Yeah, Joel, the court couldn’t get the 4th Amendment right, either.
October 11th, 2010 at 1:41 am
I’d have been tempted to stick it to the underneath of a Police car.
October 11th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
There is a dairy farm, somewhere, use your imagination.