When is HOME not "home"?

Well, if I'm at the car repair shop then "they" already have my VIN & license tags. Pretty sure most places want your address & phone nbr on the work order. If you pay by credit card they have more info.

So again, leaving the GPS in the car at a repair shop is no big deal. Or do you think these crooks can't use Google maps once they glean your info from the paper trail?

This debate over entering your actual home location into your GPS has been going off and on for far longer than I have been a member here. The arguments against entering the location are primarily based on hersey evidence that at some time, someone used a stolen GPS to burglarize a home. No one can point to an atual occurance, so that pretty much aligns with the requirements the argument can be dismissed as an urban legend.

While it is entirely possible it could happen, or did happen in the past, there are so many ways to ge the same information as to your actual location from documents normally stored it makes the arguments almost laughable in my opinion. When GPS units all had price tags of $500 or more, the mere possession of one would be an incentive. With the bubble bursting around 4 years ago, a GPS is now like a cell phone and with few exceptions worth the effort to steal, much less access for information. With the current units, your location set as HOME doesn't have an address associated with it. It does have the coordinates, but even those are not displayed. The only thing shown on my unit is a map depiction of the location.It doesn't show if it is a house, apartment, police station or anything else.

So, all this talk of a valet or someone else rifling through your GPS is hogwash, the only thing they could learn is the nearest intersection.

Take your GPS with you and you won't have a problem. The criminal doesn't have a motive to break into your vehicle and therefore since there is no motive there is no crime.
Simple.

I wish my GPS would get stolen and the house robbed as well. I need some new mostly free stuff.

why would they think nobody is at your home. my son works nights and is home all day

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2009/12...

Urban legend or not... why give a potential burglar (valet/car thief / whatever) the upper hand when it doesn't cause you any inconvenience to have your "home" programmed a little further away?

To be on the moon

Mine is about a half-mile from my house. If I cannot find my house from there, I probably should NOT be driving. I have a home security system, and a security system next door in the form of a marked police car frequently parked in the driveway. It would take a very brave soul to do anything around here, and if they do, that's what insurance is for.

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it's the dog's fault

I use a sandwich shop down the street.

I neither keep my GPS in my car, nor my registration, nor identify my home in my GPS.
My 2002 Z3 roadster is in yellow with a black convertible top. The garage door opener in the Z3 is set to catapult the drivers seat to 200 feet in the event of a miscoding (just kidding!). You should know that my Z3 has never been stolen, but an old Camry was once taken from my driveway (probably as a parts car)!

There is a difference in being careful & going nuts about theft. Only you can determine that balance.

Fred

I st mine to the local precinct.

Gimme ur addy, I'll put it on a peice o' paper, find sum kirmenol' jar n' leave it fer em' ta komb n' viosot ya

I set mine at a nearby intersection

Where ever I lay my hat is my home.

home is my house

accepting reservations?

Could you please send me your address....

I hear Ormond By-the-Sea is beautiful this time of year.

When I purchased my Garmin many years ago, I set home a block away. It wasn't much longer that I realized like others that there are an awful lot of blue tracks leading to a certain house. Never bothered to change it.

You can erase history to remove these tracks but you'd have to do that quite often.