Simple Solution

[Blitz]

You hear these stories of people doing smash and grabs at stores stealing these small ATM machines.
The solution seems so simple to me, correct me if I'm an idiot here and I am missing something. Why not put GPS or something similar like Lojack in these ATM's and when they are stolen you could track them and possibly get to them before the thieves can open them...:shrug:

Seems too simple, I've got to be missing something here...

 

[bubbas1]

It wouldnt work because it makes sense. So please refrain from making common sense suggestions. Thank you for you cooperation. J/K

If they actually did that they would want to raise the fees for you to get money. Biggest scam I have ever seen. Thats why I never go to the fee ones unless I absolutly have to.

The largest fee I ever saw was for $10 in a strip club.

 

[The Sponge]

blitz they have a device in which they can plant in Alzheimer patients so they would be able to locate them if they somehow became lost. I thought this would be an excellent idea for a soldier in war but every time someone is captured it doesn't look like this is the case. I know if i was in Iraq i would let them plant fifty of them in me. Have no idea why this technology just sits and rots along with the stock i bought representing this technology.:shrug: By the way now i hear a friend of mine is gonna put the chip in her dog.

 

[Blackman]

: By the way now i hear a friend of mine is gonna put the chip in her dog.

My dog has a chip, I don't see the sense in not getting them chipped. But on the flip side, I'm sure the chip will be linked to cancer soon enough.

 

[johnnyonthespot]

OK, well I'm not a total expert on these things but I think we're talking about two different things here. The "chips" they put in pets are RFIDs (stands for Radio Frequency Identification) tags. They are not like GPS because they only work from about 20 feet away. They are valuable because all vets and animal shelters have scanners so that if someone finds your pet and brings it to them they can figure out who it belongs to and contact you. But you can't "lojack" your pet if they get away because it's not a GPS. I believe the problem is that the GPS requires a separate power source and once they unhook the atm it wouldn't have one anymore. I know they have the handheld ones that run on batteries but I think that even in bulk those run about $500 a piece and at the moment it is probably still cheaper to deal with a couple thefts than to put $500 units in every single atm, not to mention the costs of hiring people to install them and having a 24-hour unit devoted to monitoring them. So I think it's just a cost issue at this point but as soon as it becomes cost effective to do so I believe that's exactly what you will see. You probably will just start to see new ones getting installed that have the GPS and they won't bother replacing the old ones. They'll just figure that over the next 10 years most of them will get replaced.

 

[bsucards]

actually they do make a way to track your dogs, I thought it was a chip, but it appears to be a collar:

http://www.globalpetfinder.com/

Kinda like invisible fence, you set a safe zone and then after that it lets you know where the dog is at

 

[snoozer]

I agree with Johnny... It comes down to cost.

Additionally, It would become an ownership issue. Who is responsible for tracking it down? The company that made the ATM or the person who owns it. I would assume you are going to need to software to support the GPS.