If cops attach a covert GPS tracking device to your car, and you discover and remove it, you have not “stolen” the device, nor can the removal stand as evidence needed to justify a search warrant. So says the Indiana Supreme Court, at least. [Timothy Lee, ArsTechnica; opinion in Heuring v. State of Indiana]
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This is one of those things that just should just shock us. If cops put a device on your car or put listening devices in your home, you get to remove them. You get to throw them out. I am no fan of the sporting theory of justice, but come on.
Why just throw it out? Why not do something like what Tom Hanks did in The Da Vinci Code?
For example, drive to a railroad crossing, and toss the device onto a freight train.