A connected cat collar allows the gendarmes to find a burglar

« Ill-gotten never profit. This man, suspected of a burglary near Toulouse, will be able to meditate on this proverb since he will appear in immediate appearance this Tuesday, May 31. The newspaper West France tells us that he was arrested by the gendarmerie in Ariège, less than 24 hours after committing his theft, and this a few kilometers from the place of the theft.

How did the authorities quickly get their hands on him? Quite simply because he and an accomplice stole two cars near Cintegabelle, in Haute-Garonne, and what they hadn’t foreseen was that there was a connected necklace in one of the vehicles! A cat collar, more precisely. A tracker, equipped with a GPS chip, which allows you to know in real time where your favorite animal is.

A “snitch” who wishes you well

When filing a complaint, the owners of the cars, and therefore of the animal, specified it to the gendarmes, and thanks to a applicationthey were able to locate the car, and therefore the suspect. Recently, “tracers” had already made the headlines, but for much more malicious reasons. This involved the fraudulent use of AirTagsthe latest Apple gadget.

Car thieves hid them on vehicles to track them, and thus find out the address of the owner. Others used them to check if an apartment or house was empty, while men used them to track women. Pointed out, Apple reacted by adding a function to prevent its product from being used as a “snitch”.

This time, this cat collar was the friend of the police, and the enemy of thieves. To think about since this type of device only costs a few tens of euros, and placed in a car, it can therefore be very useful in the event of theft…