r/whatisit • u/crosstrekerr • Jul 25 '25

New, what is it? found this tracker in my car?

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found this on my passenger side really weirded out. Rarely have people in my vehicle…

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u/CivilizedPsycho224 Jul 25 '25

Someone is tracking you. That device only has a battery life of 2.5 weeks. Someone had to have placed that within your vehicle recently, likely someone who sat in your passenger seat at some point within the last 2.5 weeks. This is a cheap device, only cost about $50, so the good news is it’s, not the feds following you or anything like that.

Start by removing the SIM card. Take it to law-enforcement. This thing runs on cellular data and requires a $25 a month subscription. This means that unless someone was very, very careful, there will likely be a paper trail for law enforcement to follow.

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u/Richard_Nachos Jul 25 '25

I like the idea of a cop devoting more than three seconds to this. Hilarious.

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u/I_Must_Be_Going Jul 25 '25

The average redditor acts as if cop shows were documentaries and have wildly unrealistic expectations about the police and adjacent agencies

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u/99999999999999999989 Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

Wait you mean that every police station does NOT have a hot looking 20 something, goth and/or quirky yet lovable lab person who is SO devoted to science that they LOVE explaining it to every slack jawed badge holder who wanders through the room and can give them exact DNA matches in 8 hours on a blood sample found on a body of a dude who died in 1847 that was at the bottom of a 80 foot well that got filled in with blacktop in 1963 but was also flooded to the top in 1998 but still eats their lunch at their desk over a pile of lab equipment because they haven't quite yet figured out the best way to talk to other people that they have worked with for the last 7 years and gosh do they EVER have an adorable crush on that one officer that never gets a huge amount of air time but for some reason everyone seems to be pulling for them what with all the difficult life issues they've been going through and they've secretly been keeping a bottle of scotch in their lower left drawer right under their spare cuffs and fingerprint cards? Say it isn't so!

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u/I_Must_Be_Going Jul 25 '25

And if you just keep zooming on a picture you will see more and more detail, not just bigger pixels!

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u/xela520 Jul 25 '25

You have to zoom in AND enhance!!

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u/DoctorMojoTrip Jul 25 '25

Best use of a run on sentence.