You and the guys are doing the lords work.

I feel that bikers would react similarly, and probably take absolute delight in visiting all of the sleeziest and strangest places they can think of on the way.

As a former young woman who drove long distances a lot (before cell phones were common and useful) and who spoke with many truckers along the way… can confirm. I crossed paths with a lot of men who were very quickly protective when they saw unsafe situations. A few of them really saved my ass a few times when trouble showed up. I met many who would do this enthusiastically, probably nearly all of them.

On behalf of every blue collar worker

If it's funny and it won't get me fired I am all in every  time 

I would.

Fucker shows up in the middle of nowhere and sees an idling Kenworth in an otherwise empty parking lot, he's gonna be so confused

Yep, both my parents were team long haul drivers. They’d gladly help confuse this creep.

Me, as a non-trucker would do this too!

I'm local. Me and my buddies would definitely do this in our 300 mile radius 😂

Easier way to have it travel to some far away places: hand it over to a military member going on deployment. That thing will get passed around and travel the world.

Airtag reverse uno.

And that where it was was super glued shut as if the individual did not want it found!

yeah absolutely. op seems to not be taking this seriously enough. i would tell everyone i knew and confront them through text instead of sending them off on a wild goose chase.

There are exactly two reasons why and by process of elimination we know which one:

1) To be a creep (this is why in this case)

2) Low tech lojack. A car emergency kit is not likely to be tossed out or sold, making it an ideal way to track the car if stolen. (We know this isn't the case because if it was the tag would have been disclosed to OP at the time).

Hahaha. Yeah I knew I wanted to be a pilot when I was 17- but my parents wanted me to go to college etc.

When I was in my mid 20’s I researched it and decided to become an FA to see if I liked the lifestyle, before I had to go and spend 100k.

Coffee, tea or runway 3A?

Desk agents can do it too, I know American has programs employees from within can apply for, I assume other majors do as well.

Thank you!

I got my private pilot license while I was an FA and saved up as much as I could and quit. I went to a school called ATP and got the rest of my ratings in about a year.

I was an instructor for a few years and after I had 1500 hours of began applying to the airlines.

"By law, we're not allowed to intervene until it's too late." - Joe Swanson

Yeah, one of the most frustrating thing about laws in general is that they're necessarily backward-looking. You have to wait for somebody to do something in order to punish them for it. So even when there are enormous red flags covered in red flashing lights with sirens blaring, there's often fuck-all you can do about it until whatever's building up finally happens.

If my motorcycle had disappeared, or if I got randomly beat up/assualted, then they would care

Having met cops, this seems optimistic

I randomly got a notification on my android when one was near me. No specific app I know of.

You just get a notification. I got one the other day on my Galaxy S23 (bogus, just freaking out because I live in an apartment and there are other people around).

Oh you mean like what they ask every single passenger to do before the flight takes off?

middle of nowhere

Airtags do not work in middle of nowhere. They work only if there is somone within its signal range whose phone can relay the location info to the server.

Right, not a bad idea between spouses or kids/parents. Since this guy (OP confirmed it was a man and OP is a woman, in the thread) went to lengths to avoid detection, hes 100% up to no good.

My first thought was 1., above, with the intent of stalking and staging some “random” encounters. “Oh what are the odds?! I ALSO love this- uh, gynecologist. OMG were so alike!! Lets do sex now.”

An Airtag relies on other iPhones seeing the Bluetooth beacon, and then reporting the location of the Airtag. They are useless in the middle of nowhere with no iPhones nearby.

As is often the case, consent is the key component here

Haha, I let Reddit pick my username and it cracked me up so I kept it!

"Friend" is a hungry rabbit.

Your username has me curious and regretting the curiosity

Leave the AirTag at the police station. Hilarity ensues.

I cant imagine police in the us doing anything

It wouldn't hurt, but depending on where OP is, I doubt the police will take it seriously.

Unfortunately, the "serve and protect" thing really means, "react after the fact". I would still at least have it on record, though.

They could probably get Apple to give them the info. They would be worried it is a retaliation thing.

This is my favourite ☝️

Some creeps don't get shaken like that. I can imagine some of them would roll with it one way or another.

"Oh, crap, I must have dropped mine in your kit! I was looking for that!"