Re: [OT] What might this object be? [old thread]

Subject: Re: [OT] What might this object be? [old thread]
From: Katherine Noftz Nagel <lists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com>
To: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:01:10 -0500

McLauchlan, Kevin wrote, in a thread about identifying an
odd object in the road:
> I'd kill for a picture
> right now. :-)

His original description of the object is copied at the
bottom of this message.

OK, I may be way offbase, here. It isn't round, and from
the photo I can't tell the color of the LED or the material
the case is made of, but...could it be a fleet management
tracker similar to this one:

<http://store01.prostores.com/protect8/catalog/GPStrackStickPRO.jpg>

I stumbled across this site looking for something else, but
the stubbie antenna and the LED on the body reminded me of
your question.

K@
Kat Nagel

---description ------
> I realized it was a metal object with a steady red
> LED, dropped in the slush in the other lane of the road -
> snipped]
> It was mostly the size and shape of an old-fashioned
round > combination
> padlock such as you'd use on a locker, but somebody had
> cut the shackle,
> leaving a stub on one side.
>
> It definitely wasn't a lock (though it looked like the
> back of one).
>
> The body appeared to be metal.
>
> The "stub", at close inspection, was an antenna just like
> on my last cellphone.



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