Daryl wrote to Nancy --
 
>   I remember several years ago, in the Dallas area, there was a 
rash of car break-ins, thefts, etc.

  We had a soft top Jeep on campus a few years the owner had taped to 
a window a note reading: "Everything that can be stolen has been 
stolen.  This car has no radio, speakers", and on and with the list 
read and at the end was "But you are happy to look around if you 
want".  I about laughing over that. 

> fun for a time, then decided they'd had enough. They pressed a 
button, and the doors locked, the windows rolled up, the engine died

  I've seen videos of those on You Tube.
  Speaking of which.
  Several years ago the Marshall PD got new Impala's.  These had a 
panic button somewhere on the dash that rolled up the windows, locked 
the doors inside and out with kill switch to the engine among other 
things.
   A couple of days after they first arrived they were at a car wash.  
The doors were open when the guy was wiping down the dash area and 
accidentally hit that button.  I, not knowing about this button, 
climbed into the back seat to watch as others who were trying to 
figure out how to over ride this.  When I got in, being a chilly 
morning, I absent-mindlessly shut the door, which being a police car 
can only be opened from the outside.  And with the screen between me 
and the back seat I was trapped.
  The car wash people, several cops and a woman from the parking 
office (who had been called in to help figure this out) were all 
standing around shaking their heads and laughing.
  Even the chief got involved and shaking his head and sighing.
  About a half hour later it reset and the doors could be opened. 
  The chief looked at me and said the only time he wanted me in the 
back of that car again was I was to be in cuffs.  LOL 

> NB>So what was the GPS for, anyway, then....?  Or am I still 
missing something....?
> 
>   Usually it was for us to see where we were on the route. 

  Our buses have them and with a free app so one see where the bus is 
en-route to that stop.
  GPS is also used to track cars that are stolen.
  Plus, one can look up a car and see where it is.
  Joe
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