This Man Is Not Happy About GPS Tracking
INDIANAPOLIS — After five burglaries at his store this summer, Chris Rowland decided to plant Global Positioning System devices in some of his merchandise.
The decision paid off with burglary No. 6.
Someone broke into the Woodcraft store in the Castleton area on Friday morning and stole woodworking tools. Rowland had placed GPS devices in some of the packaging.
“The GPS system, we’ve wired it so that it phones my cell phone and tells me that it’s on the move, and we can actually track it,” Rowland told 6News’ Jack Rinehart.
The devices informed Rowland that the stolen items were at an apartment complex less than half a mile from his store. Later, the devices showed the merchandise had been moved to a house in Lawrence.
Rowland called police, who recovered the merchandise. Police said they’re looking for Jeffrey Burton, who they named a suspect in all six burglaries.
Rowland said he was motivated to use the GPS devices after someone told him that he’d never catch whoever was burglarizing his store. Find out more about this unhappy-looking dude and how you can empower yourself with GPS here.
Nice news item here from Channel 6 in Indianapolis. How many of us have been frustrated in life by burglaries? It’s a shocking bow to our general well-being and certainly a huge cost to businesses. If insurance companies in the US had to stand on their own two feet … instead of having their profitability assured by Congressional lobbying, repetitive, rampant business burglaries would be a lot less frequent than they are … but we all have to play the cards we are dealt.
Chris Rowland, however, didn’t choose to just sit on his but and file insurance claims … and whine about what “the government” should be doing for him. Plagued by a string of robberies that was hurting his business badly he just bought some simple, cheap, self-contained GPS tracking devices and concealed them in likely burglary products in his stock room.
Bingo … payoff. Definite ROI. No more burglaries and the unhappy looking dude in the photo is now a fugitive from justice.
You can be powerless, or you can empower yourself … the choice is yours . hats off to Chris!
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