[NWFree]

I tagged both of my cars. And my dog with an air collar.

Watch out

[qaz123]

Isn’t the guys truck his personal belonging?

And I think Texas still has some of those ‘range laws’ in effect, where this perfectly legal. Goes back to horse thief days or something like that.

[airborne]

“”AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings,””

Which is EXACTLY what this man did!

[ClearCase_guy]

I consider law enforcement to be a failed experiment.
I consider the justice system to be a failed experiment.

I applaud people who think outside the box.

[fwdude]

Waiting for all the bleeding heart FReepers to chime in about “excessive force,” like criticism of the pharmacist in Oklahoma who finished off an armed robber and went to prison for it.

[I want the USA back]

Too bad about the bullet holes in the door. Don’t mess with Texas.

[PGR88]

Not that we condone vigilante violence in Texas.

I condone it.

vigilante justice is better than no justice at all.

[Gen.Blather]

A friend working opposite a NY union trucking yard asked a trucker why there was no graffiti anywhere on their yard or trucks. (It was literally everywhere else, including police cars.) The trucker said, “Because we don’t allow it.”

There you go. We have people disrupting traffic to protest (fill in the blank), threatening Supreme Court Judges at their homes, and stealing stuff, because we allow it. If there’s no penalty, then people will do whatever they want. That is the opposite of what a civilized society is.

[Hulka]

Moving from CA to TX. . .well, I say no voting allowed for those CA types. Former CA serfs need to live full time in TX for AT LEAST 5-yrs before they can register to vote. . .and 7-years before they can vote...enough time to adjust to Texas norms and culture.

[freedumb2003]

AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings,
It was
not to track people
It wasn't
or another person's property
It wasn't
, and we condemn in the strongest possible terms any malicious use of our products.
It was not malicious. The product was use to track down a missing piece of personal property. The fact it also found the person who made it go MISSING is incidental to the use.
Unwanted tracking has long been a societal problem
This was NOT "unwanted tracking." This was WANTED tracking.

[ifinnegan]

Regarding leaving trunks open it’s to show there is nothing in the trunk and no need to break the car window to pop the trunk from the inside.

These smash and grabs are rampant. People will leave nothing in their car now.

The drug addicts see nothing in the car so they smash the window anyway to pop the trunk. This shows there’s also nothing in the trunk.

It’s pathetic people feel the need to defend themselves in this way.

[Steely Tom]

“Thank you AppleAir Tag!”

[Steely Tom]

"Apple AirTag Made My Day!"

— Dirty Harry

[Mr. K]

They used to hang horse thieves because if you stole a man’s horse you basically destroyed his life.

It’s no different with an Iron horse. (car, locomotive, etc)
You can’t get to work and support your family.

I would not vote to convict.

[Bonemaker]

“...shooting—I mean you can’t just steal a man’s truck and not expect to get shot.”

Why not? It’s the modern day version of stealing a man’s horse and we all know what happened to horse thieves in the old west!

[Bikkuri]

"help people locate their personal belongings"

The truck was his personal property...



"not to track people or another person's property"

The truck was NOT the thief's personal property.

[A strike]

“Police said that when they arrived, they found several bullets in the truck and one dead thief.”
Any proof linking to the truck’s owner?

-fJRoberts-

[FatherofFive]

just leave their cars open, so the thieves won't damage the vehicles while robbing them

Did that with my convertible. $1,200 to replace the top if slashed. And left $5 in the ashtray, so they don’t get mad and slash the seats

[Gay State Conservative]

I pay $50 a year for OnStar type features....notification if the airbags go off and a GPS location that the police can use to find your stolen car.

[bgill]

He tracked his property and shot it for running away. Too bad the thief was inside.

In TX, cattle and horse thieves are shot or hanged so why not truck thieves.

Seriously, bad guys should realize they can’t get away with much with today’s tech.