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Hi Guys
I wanted to share (with his permission) a very funny story about his tracker.
My buddy invested in a tracker for his mini. - very good system - worked well - 14 day back up battery built in and it was only the size of a fag box - very neat.
Anyway, his car got swiped from by the River Severn, and the tracking centre rang him to ask if he was driving it etc and when he said no they started the search.
About 30 minutes later, they rang and said they had a position - near a local post office in kidderminster, so the police turned up and no car, no signal, the company said not to worry because if the car had gone into a storage container the signal might be lost but it would reactivate when it hit fresh air again anywhere in the world unless it was longer than 14 days and the battery ran out - but even so, they said they could track it using the chip etc....(unless it was burned out).
Cars lost right?
Long story short, about 3 days later the company rang and said they had found the signal again and it was in Birmingham! the signal was restored and they informed the West Midlands police in that area who were perusing the signal!
BINGO!!!! the Brummie feds were on route to the location - probably some eastern block style warehouse full of cocaine and money and stolen stuff - men with machine guns etc right? just like in the movies.
well, not quite -
When he had the tracker installed, the fitter told him not to put any stickers/warnings on the vehicle that a tracker was fitted because this would show the thieves that there was one fitted and they could locate and disable it.
Trackers are supposed to be "covert" apparently, which would make sense i suppose.
But Neil, knowing better - slapped "tracker fitted" stickers to his side windows and rear window. - bright orange ones.
The thieves located the tracker behind the dash whilst one of them was driving it through town, removed it, and posted it to a .......wait for it........drug den? no......Underground warehouse full of beared russian terrorists? no...............they found the tracker, in a brown jiffy bag.....in DAN DAN DAAAAAAAAAAAAN.....Cadburys/Kraft head office.
Thats right folks, Cadburys....or Kraft...whichever.
I swear to you as i type this i am crying with laughter.
The police reckon they had some chocolate on them, wrote the address on the envelope they bought, packed the tracker and sent the police on a wild goose chase across the midlands while they went the other way.
Firstly - never put warning labels on a car with a tracker -
Secondly - as cruel as this sounds - i think a "well played" is in order for the crooks who even my mate commented on as being "bastards - but bloody funny bastards".
Anyway, the car was relocated after the owner of a Worcester Pub noticed a mini was on his car park for a week and reported it to the police.
And much to the polices pleasure -there on the passenger seat - a cadburys twirl.
