Posted on 04/29/2013 1:15:01 PM PDT by nascarnation
Daimler is set to profit from theBoston Marathon bombing drama in a strange way. The car hijacked by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a 2013 ML350 with an active telematics subscription. Mercedes-Benz USA confirmed to Automotive News [sub] that “it was contacted April 19 during the hunt for Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Mercedes was asked to help find the vehicle using the Stolen Vehicle Location Assistance function on the crossover’s mbrace telematics system.“
Mercedes-Benz USA CEO Steve Cannon could tweet: “Just found out that our mbrace2 technology in the stolen Mercedes helped locate the Boston terrorists! Thanks to our amazing law enforcement.”
The Mercedes is owned by a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur, who told the harrowing story of his abduction and escape to the Boston Globe.
As someone else pointed out, the 0bama/Biden sticker alone is not an indicator, but in combination with any or all the others, indeed, it does indicate a soft target.
So, using logical skills, we could eliminate the 0/B sticker as an indicator and just use the presence of one or more of the others.
The graphic is not mine.
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Exactly. Let’s free Tibet from those brutal ChiComs.
I would say his deadly mistake was in blowing up some people, including a child.
You are right. All else be damned, that one was the biggie.
actually, that’s interesting.
if you took an older phone, with no contract, and hid it in your car wired for power... but no contract... it would receive no calls and cost nothing per month. if your car gets stolen, you can use the phone info (which you would have copied down before hand) to activate and track it
a ready made location service that didn’t cost you anything until you activate it.
interesting.
hmmmm
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