Thieves stole an irrigation controller from the wall of a Tucson housing development and then installed at a ranch 80 miles away. They didn’t realize that the controller had wireless capabilities, and after it was installed at its “new” location, it started reporting back to its original owners.

The original owners were able to query the controller and find it based on gps coordinates provided by the wireless carrier. The thieves were tipped off before the police could retrieve the controller, but the brush with the law apparently scared them, because the controller mysteriously showed back up on the wall of the housing development 3 weeks later.

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