[GOPJ]

... a phone-like device that has a GPS inside, in an empty foil packet of Twisties, a puffy cheese-based snack that is popular in Australia.

So we can harden our chips by putting them in snack packs? I have doubts...

[WeWaWes]

wrap a cell phone in aluminum foil and the same thing happens

[Vermont Lt]

I would think if I had to carry a transmitter on my person all day long, the concern about the radio waves causing cancer is a pretty damn good reason to cover it up.

Thats my story and I am sticking to it.

[right way right]

Nobody missed him? What was his job? It must have been real important. Was he a safety inspector or an auditor?

Nobody misses those folks.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The tribunal found that the packet was deliberately used to operate as an elaborate “Faraday cage” -

Elaborate? Putting something inside an empty bag and closing it is so easy a liberal could do it.

There are also several other reasons he could have put it in a protective covering.

Or is there no dust, mud or water down there?

[stylin19a]

He works in Perth and a cell phone provider has this statement on their web sit.

“Covering WA(Western Australia) with mobile reception as we know it today would be an enormous undertaking, and is unlikely to ever happen.”

So there are probably dead spots all over the place.
It took somebody to narc him out, otherwise he probably never would have been caught...

[Squeako]

If you’re going to be a deadbeat dishonest employee, just leave your phone on your desk and forward your calls, dumb-dumb.

[BradyLS]

"Mr Colella appears to have been deliberately mischievous in acting in this manner."

That wily rascal! That impish little scamp! 'Michievous!' What a marvelous word!

[BradyLS]

“Sir, are you aware of what a Farraday cage is?”

“Uh, cert’n’ly, yer honor. It’s a place for electric devices wot blocks the fields so’s Oi can play golf farraday.”

[BradyLS]

He was ratted out. He shouldn’t have fudged his score so often and bought a round of beer for his mates once in awhile.