A reporter in Canada tried to tempt a thief into stealing a 13-inch TV so that he could track where it went over a 36-hour period using a GPS phone hidden in it. He placed the TV set in the back of an unlocked car, took it to various seedy areas and left it unattended. The only problem was he couldn’t get anyone to steal it no matter where he parked the car. He even left it sitting in a bad neighborhood for 20 days but no one took it.
I guess he shouldn’t have been so cheap and used a plasma TV instead. Why steal something that big and with such a low resell value? (New sets sell for less than $100.)
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