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Court Says Removing a Police GPS Tracker From Your Car Isn’t Theft
Vice ^ | Feb 26 2020, 8:00am | Karl Bode

Posted on 02/26/2020 1:40:05 PM PST by FewsOrange

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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Wanna have lots of fun, remove it from your car, find the head of the local Democrat Party Committee and stick it to HIS car.”

Then they would accuse you of being in all those shady places. knowing my luck the Dem car would have been at the scene of one of those “Suicides”. Then I would be a suspect.


21 posted on 02/26/2020 2:05:06 PM PST by Revel
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To: Buckeye McFrog

A crack and hooker map!


22 posted on 02/26/2020 2:05:24 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Buckeye McFrog

remove from your vehicle, go to the local doughnut shop and put it on a cop car.


23 posted on 02/26/2020 2:07:34 PM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: FewsOrange

24 posted on 02/26/2020 2:12:08 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

> find the head of the local Democrat Party Committee and stick it to HIS car <

Odds are that guy is already under investigation for some morals crime. So he might already have one on his car. But I guess there’s nothing wrong with having multiple trackers.


25 posted on 02/26/2020 2:18:01 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: FewsOrange

Just take it off and throw it into the trash. Then claim you don’t know what happened.


26 posted on 02/26/2020 2:18:06 PM PST by I want the USA back (We have sunk to a depth where restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men:Orwell)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

He WAS the head of the local Democrat Party Committee.


27 posted on 02/26/2020 2:38:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

This is obviously a correct decision.

Think about it this way. Obama’s DOJ targets you because of your posts on Free Republic. They stick a tracker on your car. You find it and throw it in the trash.

This is just a process crime, like lying to the FBI. Even if you aren’t guilty of anything, just being interviewed probably gives them something they can argue wasn’t true. For example, you say, “I don’t remember.” Do you really want to go in front of a jury to prove you really didn’t remember when you said it? That’s exactly what they got the Valerie Plame guy for in the Bush administration, saying I don’t recall.

Even if you aren’t guilty, pulling the tracker off your car makes you a criminal and subject to search of your home.


28 posted on 02/26/2020 2:39:41 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Adder

Put it on a slow-moving train.


29 posted on 02/26/2020 2:43:04 PM PST by bIlluminati (Defund the Left. Shrink the U.S. Federal government to 1897 levels.)
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To: bIlluminati

Or an Amazon delivery van.


30 posted on 02/26/2020 2:45:14 PM PST by samtheman (FReepers all do want Bernie to get the dem nomination, right? (Just to be clear))
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Oh, the naivete of my younger years, believing innocent people should have no concerns over being monitored or pulled over on the road.


31 posted on 02/26/2020 2:55:22 PM PST by F450-V10
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To: FewsOrange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr3rPt3CUZU&t=3s


32 posted on 02/26/2020 3:00:25 PM PST by BipolarBob (I asked my cat who his favorite socialist was. He looked at me and said Mao.)
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To: ModelBreaker

Look at my post #32 for what REAL lawyers take on it.


33 posted on 02/26/2020 3:01:31 PM PST by BipolarBob (I asked my cat who his favorite socialist was. He looked at me and said Mao.)
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To: FewsOrange

This is interesting. It isn’t theft (IMHO) because the police knew where it was. They just didn’t like the fact that it wasn’t moving. There was no intent to re-sell the tracker to the advantage of the person being tracked (who indeed was a meth dealer).

I’m reminded of the scene in Schwarzenegger,s “Total Recall” when he removes a tracking device from his sinuses and attaches it to a rat. The villain played by Michael Ironside follows the tracker and winds up blasting a bunch of rats.

More importantly, there’s the analogy to the FISA mess created by the Democrat-linked operatives. Note that the judges threw out every bit of evidence found in the search, because the search had a faulty basis. How is the situation with Trump, Stone, or Flynn any different? (Manafort is different—they had him dead to rights long before he worked for Trump, even if they only decided to persecute/prosecute him afterwards because he worked for Trump. F’d up, but chalk it up to prosecutorial discretion.)


34 posted on 02/26/2020 3:22:03 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: FewsOrange

So the cops are saying that you have to cooperate with them when they spy on you? BS.

How would you know it was a cop bug? Could be from a PI. In any case the cops can GFT.


35 posted on 02/26/2020 3:22:22 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: FewsOrange

“Your Honor, Officer Smith and I pursued the suspect. Suddenly the suspect turned and reached for something in his pocket. We were afraid he was armed so we fired our service weapons. Though the suspect was struck several times, he was still able to flee. We eventually located the individual in an alley, wounded but still breathing. We arrested the suspect for, among other things, stealing our bullets...a total of the four that had struck him when we fired our guns at him.”


36 posted on 02/26/2020 3:35:50 PM PST by moovova
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Or drill a hole in it and fill it with salt water.


37 posted on 02/26/2020 3:40:27 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: FewsOrange

We have judges who say it isn’t illegal to break out of an ankle monitor.


38 posted on 02/26/2020 3:51:12 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Might want to read about the specifics in this case and the issue.


39 posted on 02/26/2020 3:55:08 PM PST by wgmalabama
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To: Pearls Before Swine
There was no intent to re-sell the tracker to the advantage of the person being tracked (who indeed was a meth dealer).

And will probably walk free because the police decided to break the law.

If someone dies as the result of the meth he will likely continue to sell can the police be sued?

After all if they had not engaged in criminal activity this person might not have been out to sell the meth that resulted in the death.

40 posted on 02/26/2020 4:00:11 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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