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Crooks Hot For GPS Devices In Tuscaloosa
12/30/08 6:30 pm   |   reporter: Isaiah Harper   producer: Isaiah Harper
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Tuscaloosa, AL - When you don't know how to get to where you're going, GPS's or Global Positioning System devices for your car have become hot gadgets.  They're also hot targets for burglars.  Tuscaloosa police say they've had at-least 120 reported stolen since the beginning of the summer this year.  They say because the items are typically mounted with a suction cup on car windshields, they're very tempting for crooks.    Police are advising owners of GPS's to hide them in the car in the glove compartment or covered console when you're not in the car.  They stress not to take the device itself off and leave the mount in the window.  Police say the mount alone makes crooks believe the GPS device is somewhere in the vehicle.   Police say the GPS turn quick cash for crooks because they can be resold easily at the street level and not traced.  Police say remember to lock your doors.  in many of the stolen GPS cases, car doors were left unlocked.

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Latest Comments on "Crooks Hot For GPS Devices In Tuscaloosa"
posted by: whatsright on 3:26 pm on 01/07/09
Crooks will steal anything not locked down and that includes car radios, CD Players, GPS systems, you name it and if they want it bad enough they will kill for it and nothing is going to stop the crooks until it becomes law that if someone observes one of these crooks stealing that it's legal to shoot them down like the animals they are. Laws need to be written that if you are caught breaking into someones car or house or if it is proven that they did later the pentalty should be life with no parole and they are not given a second chance to do it again, I think it should be one bullet to the brain of anyone committing murder or stealing and I would bet that puts an end to crime as we know it today, in China you only get one chance and they kill you and you don't hear much about their crimerate.It could be like Saudi Arabia where they cut off a hand or a foot with no welfare to back the slugs up. I think at no time anyone caught stealing should have the right to vote or draw anykind of State or Federal support for the rest of their worthless lives !!!!!!!!!!.

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