Cunning wiring found my Xbox
MICROSOFT'S XBOX 360 console can be tracked if it is ever nicked.
A student who lost his Xbox in a burglary was able to find it again by using the console's own wireless technology.
Ryan Ketsenburg, a sophomore construction management major at Missouri State left the door unlocked when he and his room mate collapsed shagged out after a field trip.
When they woke up the Xbox had gone walkabout, so Ketsenburg called the coppers. While he was waiting for them to show up, Ketsenburg found himself reasoning that since the wireless controller was still registered to the console he could track it down, if it had not gone too far.
Sure enough, he turned on the wireless Xbox controller and found that it was still connecting to his Xbox.
Ketsenburg figured out that it must be on the fifth floor of his student digs, pinpointed the room, and called the authorities who got the unit back for him.
It was not a completely happy story. The thief had formatted the hard drive and clearly was not interested in giving the console back. So now Ketsenburg has decided to prosecute and has told the media.
The moral of the story is that, if you are going to steal stuff, take it out of the building that you stole it from. µ
L'Inq
The Standard
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We need a local version of Facebook meets Crimewatch. Put all local crooks on there, with their addresses.
Then we will all know who to avoid, who to ban from the local shops, who to exclude for public events etc.
Exclusion from all local services would be a great way to reduce crime, imo.
I expect if a criminal was excluded from tv, mobile phone, broadband, shops, restaurants, pubs, public transport, parking, etc then that would make crime an unattractive thing to do.
After this news spreads to the internet population, daring thiefs will take extra caution and search around for additional controllers, and this method will be rendered obsolete.
Your average game console thief isn't a rocket scientist. This guy certainly wasn't.