Don’t Commit Crimes While Wearing A GPS Bracelet

It’s not a good idea to wear GPS technology while committing crimes. Look, it’s going to be incredibly difficult to get away with committing crimes without wearing technology that will track your location. If you are wearing that kind of thing, you stand very little chance. Now, a teenager in St. Louis is learning that the hard way. Here’s more on the story.

Teen Arrested After GPS Helps Lead To Arrest

According to First Alert 4, Leslie James III, 18, is facing 31 counts of stealing-related offenses after a series of smash-and-grab robberies across the St. Louis area. James has been charged with 8 counts of second-degree burglary, 3 counts, of attempted burglary, 11 counts of felony property damage, and 8 counts of misdemeanor stealing. Additionally, he was charged with a count of tampering with a motor vehicle, per First Alert 4. It looks like he was pretty busy on this crime spree. First Alert 4 reports that James and two others went to 9 businesses in St. Louis where they smashed windows and stole property (or attempted to). It’s also been reported that James was driving a stolen vehicle and someone in the group was armed with a gun. To make things even worse, police say James was wearing a GPS bracelet while the crimes were being committed. Examining data from the technology showed that James was at each of those businesses on the day and time of these robberies. That makes for a pretty easy case. He’s really making things easy on the prosecutor. How can you not think about that? You can’t be wearing one of those! Having your phone on you would be bad enough, but wearing GPS technology that literally tracks your every movement while committing crimes is a terrible idea. Check out a video report of the crimes below from FOX 2 St. Louis.

5 Technology Advancements That Have Gone Way Too Far

• QR Code Menus

  George: QR code menus, Jerry! I couldn’t open it on my phone! I had to ask to see it on hers! Very embarrassing!
  
  Jerry: What an idea! Who wants to look at a menu, but smaller and harder to read?
  
  Elaine: idk :) I kinda like em :) gives me an excuse to keep looking at my phone :)

  — my life is a living hell. every minute is torture (@on_da_spectrum) May 23, 2023

  I’m a man with many pet peeves. Admittedly, probably too many. I need to work on that. However, one pet peeve I refuse to let go is having your phone out while out to dinner. Especially when you’re out on a date with someone! It’s rule one! Keep your phone away, and engage in conversation. Your phone will still be there after the date and you can do all the Google’ing and social media’ing that your heart desires, but not during the date. Now, thanks to QR codes on menus, we are forced to be on our phones during dates. We have no choice, it’s totally out of our hands…the situation, that is…not our phones…those are unfortunately very much in our hands. Give me a real menu. I get that it may be saving a tree, or may be more hygienic, but please don’t make me keep doing this.

• FaceTime

  

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  Has nobody heard the popular phrase, “just text me?” I feel like it’s probably been in our lexicon since texting was invented. If we have texting, who needs a phone call? Now, we’ve taken it a step further by introducing FaceTime. Look, I don’t want you calling me let alone to see my face. Very rarely am I ever presentable, and when I happen to be, I’m busy and don’t have time to hop on FaceTime with you. What can you say to me over FaceTime that you can’t over text? If you really really need to reach me you can call and make it quick, I guess. But a FaceTime? I can’t think of any situation where a FaceTime is preferred. You have a problem? Text me. You want to congratulate me? Text me. You have a life threatening emergency? Call 911 or you can text me, and I can alert the authorities.

  The only time FaceTime may be acceptable is to see a loved one you don’t get a chance to see anymore. However, they never know how to properly use the app, so it ends up being a waste anyways, thus proving there is never a reason to FaceTime anyone. Why do we need this technology? It’s just a burden.

• Push Notifications

  

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  Push Notifications are getting a little too push, if you ask me. I’m okay with an Amber Alert getting pushed through on my phone. That’s important and could save a life. However, iPhone alerting me that my Screen Time was up 12% this week isn’t something I need nor want to know. CNN alerting me about a new podcast they did is not something I need urgently on my phone. I even disabled push notifications for texts and on all social media, I’ll look when I’m ready to look. I don’t need the constant bombardment of notifications coming to my phone and distracting me. Beep! Beep! Beep! Vibrate! Vibrate! Vibrate! It’s too much! If you’re going to send out a Push Notification, please make sure it’s important. Like life or death important. Even then, a simple vibrate will do.

• Personalized Ads

  A tie-dye AWESOM-O shirt? It’s like a personalized ad. Purchased. https://t.co/T6WDJNUsSL

  — Cort Freeman (Lord of Kerry) (@CortFreeman) May 8, 2021

  How does my phone know I need something before I even do? That doesn’t make any sense. At first, it might seem cool that your phone knows you so well that it can tell you what you want. That is…until you start to think about it. How did your phone learn that about it? Well, it listens and is constantly watching. I was having a conversation with M’Lady just the other day about planning a trip to Lake Michigan. Later that day, what do I see on Instagram? Restaurant recommendations along the Lakeshore. It listened to us! I’d be all for personalized ads, if I filled out a form or something telling the advertisers what I’d like to see. However, that’s not what happened. I already have a girlfriend…I don’t need two people going through all my private stuff.

• Zoom

  

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  Wouldn’t working from home during the pandemic, or still today, have been much more enjoyable if Zoom wasn’t a thing? We could have been in our PJs for 2 years straight without any sort of self care. Am I the only one who thinks that would have been awesome? Probably. But, come on! We could have had all communication over email or maybe a conference call, but we could have stayed in bed. We all could have been living life like Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. That’s the dream! But nope! Zoom had to become a thing and we all had to start getting dressed up (from the waist up) for work. Oh, what could have been…