Reply #9: I am in awe at the level of stupidity involved in this.

[drm604]

Even if they didn't give a damn about morality and ethics, surely someone should have thought about the legal implications of what they were doing.

The economic costs to the Lower Merion taxpayers that will likely result from this dwarf the cost of some stolen laptops. And none of this was necessary to track down a stolen laptop anyway. A GPS unit in the laptop would have been sufficient.

One has to wonder if someone somewhere didn't have some other (perhaps sick voyeuristic) motive for doing this.