[daenz]

I'm trying really hard not to come to this conclusion, but the tweet thread doesn't make any sense.

>I didn’t wanna go home, so I spent the night somewhere and just said I’d figure it out in the morning.

So they stayed somewhere and said they would figure it out in the morning. Ok, that's reasonable.

>this morning while I was asleep I had someone close to me check my car

How did they tell someone to search the car while they were asleep? They said they would figure it out "in the morning" when they were awake. Some time between deciding to figure it out in the morning and waking up, they told someone to search their car?

If it didn't happen, being asleep while someone searched your car would be the reason why they threw the device away without your permission. If you were awake when they threw it away, that would be a lot more difficult to believe.

[y4mi]

its quite easy to imagine in my opinion.

she drives home and gets these notifications, which clearly spook her, which is why she made extra turns etc.

she sends a few messages to friends and/or family, because she's freaking out about it, but goes to sleep because she doesn't know what to do

one of these friends or family comes by in the morning, sees her car and checks it out before ringing her door bell

the given facts are quite believeable, though i doubt there is a human trafficing relation which she seems to think. its more likely a potential stalker, upset boyfriend or similar.

[luckylion]

What friend would check the car, find a tracker and then immediately get rid of it and not even take pictures of it instead of showing her or just calling the police themselves though?

What's somewhat plausible is that "the person close to her" put the tag there in the first place. They'd have a good reason to "get rid of it" in that case.

[daenz]

That's believable, but it contradicts "this morning while I was asleep I had someone". Her asking someone to search her car before she went to sleep to "figure it out in the morning" is more believable.

[stingrae]

it also appears like the battery tab was never pulled in the picture.

edit: my mistake, missed the part where they threw away the original air tag.

[_zzaw]

It’s a photo of a generic AirTag, not the actual tag that was found—that one was apparently thrown away, which a few folks here (including me) find a little strange.