A Strategically Placed AirTag Led Police To A Dumpster Full Of Stolen Democratic Campaign Signs

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/airtag-tracks-stolen-democratic-campaign-signs

More than 100 signs, including ones for John Fetterman, were swiped from lawns in an affluent Philadelphia suburb

On Wednesday morning, Sandy Gilson noticed four political signs, including one supporting Senate candidate John Fetterman, missing from her front lawn — the second time in two weeks this had happened. When Gilson, a longtime resident of Tredyffrin Township, an affluent Philadelphia suburb where she serves as a committee member for her precinct, drove around her neighborhood, she noticed more signs — all supporting Democrats ahead of next month’s midterm elections — gone too.

But when she decided to file a report with the local police department, the cops already knew where her signs would be — in a large commercial dumpster behind a strip mall in the area. How? Because someone had put an Apple AirTag on one of the signs.

[Squaredeal]

1. Not like the police told anyone until someone complained to them.

Republican theft of Democratic signs is always a common occurrence in our rural township. It’s in their nature. While we Dems go high, they always go low.

[PBC_Democrat]

2. Airtags are AMAZING!

I tossed one under the driver's seat of my car.
Took it in for detailing ... about a mile away I was notified that the tag was left behind.
It showed me the address on a map ... obviously the car wash.
Went back and opened 'FindMy' it locked-on to the tag and gave us anarrow and distance.
It pointed to a vacuum cleaner used on the my car, I played the a sound, we heard it.
Open the vac and the tag fell out.
one of the best $25 I've ever spend.
Giving them away to Apple-using friends and family.

[zanana1]

3. I'm 70. This has been going on since I was 10.

When I was ten years old I saw two guys pulling signs out of our yard and throwing them in the back of a pickup truck.