When I was a kid, I used to enjoy watching TV detective shows like "Mannix" or the "Rockford Files". One of my favorite recurring themes in such shows was the Car Chase. Usually the hero would be driving down the road in his 1970's Boss Mustang 'Cuda Firebird heading to some secret safe house where his beleaguered client was hiding. Invariably, he would look in the rear view mirror a few times and spot a pair of sideburn-sporting miscreants filling the front seat of a Caprice Cutlass deVille just a few cars back. With a smart rearward flick of the spindly chrome-plated floor lever, the hero would shift down two notches from "D" to "1" and mash the throttle, allowing the TV viewer to enjoy the spectacle of bias-ply-shod American iron, each equipped with the optional Conestoga Wagon Handling Group, slew and heave through intersections, scattering bell-bottomed pedestrians in crosswalks. In just a minute, the bad guys would lose all of their hubcaps as well as the hero.

Today? Well, alloy wheels make hubcap-shedding a thing of the past, and instead of overextending their Toyota Prius trying to keep up with Jim Rockford's VW Jetta TDI, the bad guys merely have to wait until Rockford syncs his iPhone again, then steal his laptop. Gotta love progress: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/04/21/iphone.tracker.explainer/index.html?hpt=C1

Good! Somebody needs to keep an eye on those hipster kids. I don't trust them for a minute.

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http://www.copwatch.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=42184

I wish someone would write an app to allow me to extract the location data and map my movements for the last several years. It would be very coolto have a map showing everyplace I've been.

I had the Tracks app on my phone for while and learned that I am very boring.

doesn't that app only work on macs?

If you have a GARMIN Nuvi...it tracks your car's movements 'til you clear it. Shove a 4-8GB SDHC card in it's side and drive away.

Zoom out when you're stuck in traffic and look at where you had been and where you wish you were there now.

Isn't technology amazing!

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'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
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Paul,

No need to use a tracking device. We all know you were at the

BERKSHIRE-HATHAWAY'S ANNUAL WOODSTOCK OF CAPITALISM IN OMAHA!



last weekend.

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'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Omaha. Holy crap, the thought of it is depressing.

Garmin do have a file on memory that keeps a track on EVERY destination you ever entered, date, start time, distance traveled, time traveled, time of arrival etc. If you connect to your Mac/PC and open as hard drive you can see the file under reports. It's opening as excel.

No secrets

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Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains?

I believe they use that information to update their maps based on where you were driving...some locations that used to show no roads have been updated to show the roads now.

However, one of our roads has had a few changes done to it (MPH change and related signage in the area) and the "updates" haven't shown now for at least 3 of the updates I've downloaded...other updates have shown road/signage changes in as little as one update from a previous one...

No big deal. I haven't followed the little "icon" onto some little-used set of railroad tracks or off the end of any short pier...yet.

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M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125
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“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~

I just downloaded the (mac) app that extracts the location info from the iphone and plots it on a map. Very cool, I can see everywhere in the country I've been for the last year, or so.

I checked my phone. Apparently, I was at the secret, invitation-only, private picnic of the unbelieveably wealthy, top-one-per-cent-earning, oligarchy . . . . COOL!

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OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Geezer-palooza?

I really dont think skin flint schmoe is in that catagory, but pehaps just a pimple on their asses.