Do You Have a GPS?  Please Be Careful

I received a warning message from the local San Jacinto Chamber of Commerce.  It was not clear if this incident that is being reported actually happened here in San Jacinto, CA or elsewhere.  The information was posted as a warning to be careful with a GPS system, particularly a mobile dash mounted type.

The story unfolds with a family attending a football game at the local high school and their car being broken into.  When the family returned after an exciting 4^th Quarter, where the home team upset their cross-town rival in the last 2 minutes everyone was very pumped up and feeling pretty good...until they got to their car.

The car had been broken into and ransacked.  Missing were a number of CD's, a few dollars in spare change, a pair of expensive sunglasses, the dash mounted GPS and the garage door opener.

The thieves took no time checking out the GPS for an entry called "HOME".  They followed the turn-by-turn directions right to the vacant home and popped open the garage with the handy garage door opener and pulled right in, closing the door behind them.

The thieves now had complete access to the home and knew exactly how long before the victims returned home after the football game - without even taking into consideration the near hour that it took to report the crime to campus security and again to the local police.

Our victims' home was ransacked with expensive electronics, cameras, computers, jewelry, artifacts and even cash taken from the home.

THE MORAL OF THIS STORY

GPS is great for what it is intended but please don't label your locations with the obvious, such as home or work.  If you do, then select the nearest major intersection as your destination.  This way if you, or anyone else, want to use they system to find your way home the GPS will take you from where you are to within a few blocks of your home and you will be able to find your way easily from their.  The thieves on the other hand will be stuck in the middle of an intersection trying to figure out what went wrong.


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