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At the very least, they will threaten to charge you with... whatever.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110303/ap_on_re_us/us_gps_track...

> the agents who showed up to collect the device were "hostile," threatening to charge Afifi if he didn't immediately cooperate and refusing his request to have a lawyer present.

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Yes, I was thinking of this case specifically when I wrote. If memory serves, that young man found the thing and asked on ... twitter? Facebook? some web site "Is this a tracker?" then the feds got all snippity about getting the device back.

I was thinking more of what happens if a person silently dislodges it... into a lake. Or the neighbor's truck who happens to be travelling cross-country for the next 3 months and says nothing to anyone about it. I wonder what the actual (as opposed to legal) ramifications would be.

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