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| jmorriss@idirect.com |
 Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:49 pm |
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http://www.thestar.com/article/193790
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Mar 20, 2007 04:30 AM
Jim Wilkes
Staff Reporter
Sometimes you'd be better off using a map.
A man and woman accused in a spree of Newmarket vehicle burglaries are
in custody after blundering into a U.S. border crossing in a stolen
SUV while blindly following GPS dashboard directions to Alberta.
U.S. border guards detained the couple March 3 at the Port Huron,
Mich., international bridge after checking the licence plate of a
Toyota Highlander and discovering it was stolen.
The Toyota's GPS device apparently pointed the vehicle to Western
Canada via Michigan and Wisconsin, rather than by the Trans-Canada
Highway looping north of Lake Superior.
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In my view, the really intriguing part is how the GPS unit, knowing it
was stolen, suckered the thiefs into driving into the perfect trap:
trying to take a stolen SUV past the guardians of Homeland
Security...
This is <way> better than the driver blindly following his GPS into
the car ferry docking location... |
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