More Vigilantism?
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
4.8 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
First, NYC is offering free Apple Airtags in an effort to reduce car thefts, cut could more vigilantism follow?
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| 0:00.0 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
| 0:04.7 | Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. |
| 0:08.5 | In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, |
| 0:14.0 | the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. |
| 0:21.4 | So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. |
| 0:25.9 | Listen on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:31.0 | Will this lead to more vigilanteism? I certainly hope so. It's one more thing. |
| 0:36.9 | Armstrong and Getty. one more thing. Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:38.3 | One more thing. |
| 0:44.3 | Perhaps you heard about this. |
| 0:46.8 | New York City is handing out 500 Apple Air Tag trackers to people for free and for nothing to put on their cars. |
| 0:56.8 | They've had so many car thefts. |
| 0:59.2 | As of last week, they'd had 4,500 car thefts in New York City skyrocketing. |
| 1:05.4 | And so the solution, Mayor Adams, joined by police officials at a press conference, announced that with some donations from private folks and all they're going to give out 500 Apple Air Tag trackers |
| 1:18.9 | so people can stick them on their car somewhere hidden. |
| 1:22.2 | And when their car gets stolen, theoretically call the cops and say, yeah, my car's at 143rd and oak can you go get it |
| 1:32.6 | please and theoretically the cops are going to go I got to believe that the era of rampant |
| 1:39.5 | car thefts is going to be coming to a close soon between the air tags and so i got this thing for my kids |
| 1:45.7 | quad that is a step beyond so the air tags i don't know if you know how they work them but they |
| 1:49.9 | ping off of other people's apple products the apple air tags so you have to have apple products around |
| 1:56.7 | because iPhones are so ubiquitous it's most of the time not a problem. |
| 2:01.4 | There's plenty iPhones around. |
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