Caught spying, FBI arrives to reclaim its GPS tracker

*plastroncafe* · 10-08-2010, 10:10 AM

Wasn't sure which forum to put this in, but as it's politically tinged, opted for the VA.

Seems the FBI had been tracking an American citizen for the better part of six months when the 20 year old student found a GPS device on his car. Not long after posting pictures of the device the kid found on his car two FBI agents arrived to reclaim their property.

They made sure to let the kid know they knew where he'd be, regardless of the newly found tracker.

Links here:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...acking-device/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/08/a...i-shows-up-to/

Thoughts?

*BubblyShell22* · 10-08-2010, 02:17 PM

Why did they even track the kid? Was it just to test their system out, or was he suspected of something?

**Venom** · 10-08-2010, 11:26 PM

Oh, those crazy spooks! Always up to something, I say. They couldn't be happy with destroying John DeLorean all those years ago.

@ BubblyShell - Apparently, being half-Egyptian.

*BubblyShell22* · 10-09-2010, 06:49 PM

Hmmm. That's weird.

*plastroncafe* · 10-10-2010, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

Hmmm. That's weird.

In a "Post 9/11" world? Not really.

*Spitfire* · 10-11-2010, 03:55 PM

Wow that's right by my house. One of my family friends from childhood always used to rant about how Bin Laden lived in Santa Clara for awhile and no one ever did anything about it. She lived there too and claims she used to see him but never knew who he was, even showed me the house in question once. Hardly proof the tall tale was true but I can only imagine this story helping to cement her belief in that.

People do crazy things. If they were monitoring that kid out of racism then every Arab American would find GPS trackers on their cars. He was obviously under suspect for something that or someone he knew.

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