Crushed enough to lobby for some legislation that made taking off like this a crime. I cannot decide how I feel about making it a crime-I think PD are overwhelmed as it is...with 800K missing on the books on any given month, they would have to hire armys of PO's to sort them out...
Sometimes, a lawsuit works better than trying for legislation - because such legislation would end up in the courts, eventually.
All it would take is a slight refinement to the definition of privacy.
Right now, there's a case going through the courts to decide whether a GPS can be placed on your vehicle, if it's parked in public (but in your driveway).
I think most of us who follow crime cases, would say that such a GPS installed on Josh Powell's rental car, would not be a violation of his Constitutional right to privacy....since the car was accessible and visible.
Others would say that LE is over-reaching, and that your privacy begins on your property line (even if there's a dead body on your front lawn).
(The above is just an example; as far as I know, no such GPS was ever placed on JP's vehicle during the first week of his wife's disappearance.)
I say that if you are purposefully missing BUT go out in public and are spotted there, you can be "outed". It just takes a little bit of following, even by an amateur sleuther with a digital camera, tipped off by LE
