Brat Nav: the GPS that can tag your teenager (or errant husband) absolutely anywhere in Britain

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | July 14, 2007 | POLLY DUNBAR

[Stoat]

I can see where this would be useful for finding people with Alzheimer’s Disease. They’d be unlikely to remove it, if it were attached to a belt or purse, because they’d forget it had been put there.

I agree, although considering the potential for rampant criminal abuse with something so small and inexpensive as this I think it would be better to have it available by prescription only....at least that would provide some minimal checks against any rapist, stalker, pedophile, pervert, etc. etc. getting one to track potential victims with it.

Let's say that there's a psycho-rapist who takes a fancy to a pretty girl working at a Victoria's Secret shop (like in the recent case of Dru Sjodin here in the USA)..  He would only have to observe her leaving work and walking to her car ONCE....now he knows which car is hers.  Then, at his leisure, all he needs to do is to attach this device to the undercarriage of the car.  Now he knows not only where she lives, but if he tracks her long enough, where all of her family and friends live.

And all of this can be done at his leisure, and from the comfort of his home.

Normally I'm all for completely free markets and as few controls as possible, but the concept of something so small and inexpensive as this being easily available to everyone scares me with the incredibly easy potential for abuse that it provides.

[Stoat]

Mobile Phone GPS Tracking

LMAO! Very funny!  :-)

You had me worried there for a minute  :-)

When the site asked me to select all of the cat pictures before I was allowed to enter it was rather obvious that it's a joke site   ::-)

[Tax-chick]

Excellent points. There is certainly a lot of potential downside to this. The utility in keeping track of children is questionable, too, given how easy it would be a child of reasoning age to leave it behind ... and a child under reasoning age should be under some supervision, anyway!

[MrJapan]

Sorry for such a late reply... my PC was down for awhile and when I was able to find my backup laptop, I totally lost track of the previous posts >.< (and password to log on)...

Thank you so much for your support.. I haven`t quite found happiness... but I am stronger today than I have been in my life. Guess something good comes out of every bad thing in life, if you allow it. Still not married, no gf.. not looking. Still can`t (won`t?!?) trust anyone... but I am a survivor, and plan to stay that way as long as I am alive. I was severely depressed for about 2 years after the situation.. but now I am fine; like I said, I am stronger now thanks to the situation.

On a lighter note.. Something that has been bugging me since the first time I saw your online name.. WHAT is the difference between a stoat and a ferret? I love ferrets and have had 2 in the past (my last one, my ex-mother-in-law took from me since my new apartment allows no pets)..

They look almost identical, although the stoat appears a little smaller. I searched the net and could find nothing relating them at all! Any idea?

Take care!