“Put down the Wise Man and slowly back away with your hands up” – GPS tracking devices now free

This is the best story of the holiday season. One outfit, Lightning GPS and their distributor, Brickhouse Security, are offering churches free GPS tracking devices for use during the holiday season when they have valuable nativity scenes placed outside their buildings. For some, the temptation to boost (steal) these figures is too great and many congregations are left to mourn the financial and emotional loss.

But not now. Lightning GPS will guide police, much like the North Star guided wise men across a desert (sorry, couldn’t resist) to their figures. While the tech isn’t new – we’ve seen commercial devices track down motorcycles and boats – giving them away as a way to help churches and garner some free publicity is new.