Hi-tech device digs up backhoe |
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| Ottawa Sun |
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| Nathalie Trepanier |
| 9/28/00 |
| James Bond would be impressed. Using a sensitive tracking device, an inconspicuous team of professionals took only 10 minutes Tuesday to locate a stolen backhoe. Boomerang -- a Canadian company specializing in auto tracking -- helped lead police to a barn in the Centre Hastings area where the $80,000 piece of construction equipment was found. The backhoe, which belongs to Battlefields Rentals in Oshawa, had been reported stolen the day before. But the thieves were outsmarted by a small device, hidden inside the backhoe, which emits a signal that Boomerang can trace to a geographic location. Police have charged Robert McCaffery, 54, of Madoc Twp., with possession of stolen property. Boomerang has about 36,000 customers, and has helped recover about $35 million worth of stolen vehicles. |
| BoomerangŪ is a registered trademark of Boomerang Tracking Inc. It's headquarters are located in Montreal, Quebec. Boomerang products are sold and distributed in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and in the Dominican Republic. Boomerang Tracking Inc. shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) under the trading symbol "BMG". |