[Xastir] tiger maps?

[Wes Johnston]

 From what I can gather, the brick sized device contains a cellular modem 
and a GPS.  The actual device worn by the criminal has a small transmitter 
attached to it.  If the small transmitter is too far from the brick device 
it sounds the alarm at the brick.  They don't yet have this stuff small 
enough to all fit on the collar.... so they have a collar and a "brick".

Wes

At 11:02 AM 11/3/2003, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
>I heard a funny thing on NPR a month or two ago:  Seems someone saw
>an interesting brick-sized thing outside a house and snatched it.
>Later that day cops arrested the thief at his apartment.  He had
>stolen a tracking device that someone had put outside their door for
>a second, the kind of thing that people under house arrest have to
>wear all the time.  The cops knew immediately that it was missing.
>Probably not the smartest thing in the world to heist that
>particular unit.
>
>I'm not sure how it got detached from the criminal.  Perhaps a cop
>had taken it off of them temporarily.
>
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