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Article #244Re: Info on LoJack
From: pat
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:00
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In article <56e3lq$o92@news3.digex.net>, dale@access5.digex.net says... > >Ken M. (Speedy-Page@Worldnet.att.net) wrote: >: Thomas C. Allard wrote: >: > >: > Mark wrote: >: > > >: > > "Robert E. Klimkiewicz, Jr." <robertk@clark.net> wrote: >: > > >: > > >Any information on this device/system would be greatly appreciated. >: > > > > We have had LoJack in the Greater Boston area for 15 or so years >now, and the car theft rate has dropped down dramtically. The LoJack >operators were installing them in local police department cars free of >charge, or giving the units to the police radio shop to install. > The LoJack folks are offering on their radio ads around here, >"If your car is not recovered within 24 hours of being reported >stolen we will refund the full cost of the system. " ( $500-600 >currently) They have all kinds of stories of cars being recovered in >under an hour. others about a car being stolen and recovered twice >in a 24 hour period. Works for me. > > --Dale > still requires active police assistance. in DC they were tracking a lo-jack equipped stolen car, and the Precinct commander called them back in because they were headed into over-time.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108b95,3353fe77eefb0751 X-Google-Attributes: gid108b95,public X-Google-Thread: 10a9ce,3353fe77eefb0751 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a9ce,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,3353fe77eefb0751 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: fb785,3353fe77eefb0751 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb785,public X-Google-Thread: f4d80,66ed1976e3adc3cd X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public From: prb@clark.net (pat) Subject: Re: Info on LoJack Date: 1996/11/14 Message-ID: <56g5l9$jnu@clarknet.clark.net> X-Deja-AN: 196515066 references: <01bbce8d$417c5b00$96078fa8@default> <567pnp$caq@news2.cais.com> <3289F81B.54D2@frb.gov> <328A8207.4ABC@Worldnet.att.net> <56e3lq$o92@news3.digex.net> content-type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: philisophical consulting mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: va.general,dc.general,md.general,balt.general,alt.law-enforcement