Woman Says She Used an Apple AirTag to Track Down Stolen Kamala Harris Sign

We’re successful the last 2 weeks earlier the U.S. statesmanlike election, which means that it’s presently highest campaign-sign-stealing season. Indeed, 1 pistillate successful Missouri says she grew truthful bushed of the Kamala Harris tract signs being taken retired of her gait that she affixed an Apple AirTag to 1 of them. The tracker led to a adjacent location wherever she witnessed a immense trove of stolen signs.

Laura McCaskill, of Springfield, Missouri, told section quality outlet Ozarks First that, aft her Harris/Walz signs were stolen disconnected her tract 4 abstracted times, she decided to usage the tracker to analyse who was taking her governmental paraphernalia. She and her spouse followed the tracker’s beacon to the adjacent municipality of Nixa, wherever they knocked connected the doorway of a section location wherever the AirTag appeared to beryllium emanating. A pistillate came to the door, McCaskill said: “She yet came up and we said hello, and we said we deliberation that you person thing successful that car that was taken from our neighborhood.” McCaskill went on: “She said, that was her son’s car and she said, ‘Well, he’s conscionable an idiot’ and past she goes backmost successful and we thought that was interesting.”

The pistillate yet went and got her son, who past admitted to McCaskill that helium had her motion successful the trunk of his car. The young antheral opened the car’s trunk and wrong was a trove of stolen Harris/Walz signs. McCaskill claimed seeing the signs was somewhat unsettling, akin to stumbling upon a “dead body.”

“I expected to find the AirTag, but not 59 signs. It was benignant of similar uncovering a dormant body. It was similar are you kidding me? Most people, they instrumentality them and they propulsion them successful a dumpster oregon they propulsion them successful idiosyncratic else’s yard,” she said. McCaskill recorded overmuch of the brushwood connected her telephone and later posted it connected her Facebook leafage wherever she’s been rallying her neighbors to record charges with the section police.

When questioned by McCaskill and her spouse astir wherefore helium had taken the signs, the young antheral didn’t person overmuch of an explanation. He tin beryllium heard connected McCaskill’s video saying: “I saw it connected TikTok. I saw a feline … that filled his location up with immoderate buddies,” helium says. “I’m not saying it’s close oregon anything.”

“This is pervasive theft. This was calculated. This is simply a antithetic level,” McCaskill told the section outlet. “My lad said, you know, the champion happening that you tin bash is to shame the behaviour and helium said to station it.” She claims she has besides filed a constabulary study implicit the theft. Gizmodo reached retired to the Springfield Police Department for much accusation and volition update this communicative if it responds.

In an update connected Wednesday, McCaskill said that constabulary are successful the process of compiling the assorted reports and thing volition beryllium released until the probe is complete.