Coming soon, GPS stalkers

Jeez, it's people like this that ruin it for the rest of us, you know? Glendale, California resident Ara Gabrielyan was charged Tuesday with stalking and threatening to kill his former girlfriend and himself over the course of six months. Apparently he purchased a Nextel phone with a motion detector that turns the device on when moved, and planted it in her car. Whenever she drove anywhere, it activated and transmitted GPS coordinates, which Gabrielyan used to monitor her location. We're not sure how he got six months of battery life out of the thing, but that's pretty jacked up any way you figure it, even despite all the cheap, readily available commercial services that are popping up and doing this nowadays.

[via BoingBoing]

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

he should have wired a car charger to recharge the phone when she drove :)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

the whole scheme was figured out when the woman he was stalking found him under her car changing the battery. so it wasn't a super-battery, he was just, um, crazy enough to change it a lot.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

are available today and where?

thanks

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:26AM]

he should have wired the car to detonate explosives placed under the driver seat when the ignition is turned. this completely eliminates the need for a battery.