Because they couldn’t. He bought the bag before they automatically tracked all purchasers with a unique ID on the bags they sell. The CEO of PD actively called the tip line.
Again we see CEOs have solidarity with their class.
Something to think about.
The bag they eventually located [looked] just like Peak Design’s crowdfunded “Everyday” V1 model [and] was likely bought between 2016 and 2019. Dering […] called the NYPD tip line to share what he knew and vowed to do “whatever is possible” to identify the shooter, including consulting Peak Design’s legal team to see what he could share with police.
Headline correction: He denies specifically snitching on Luigi, but would eagerly have done so if they were able but found that he didn’t have the data.
Just so everybody knows, when you decide to do your own homework, you should go to your local thrift store and purchase the most Generic clothing and Accessories that you can. No High end brand names. Something mass produced.
And ffs, don’t leave shit at the scene.
I admire his ability to complete a project, but I have some notes.
And have more than one fake ID, and multiple changes of clothing stashed on the escape route. And ditch the firearm in the bag with a rock in the river at night. Don’t try to hide out in bum fuck Pennsylvania. And don’t carry your manifesto with you, I don’t wander around outside unmasked when it’s cold enough to be masked. Probably don’t etch the casings yourself. Matter of fact don’t drop casings for the gun you used.
Assuming he actually made these mistakes there’s a whole lot of hindsight to go around.
If you get stopped by police a week later, after you’ve ditched everything including fake IDs, just use your real fucking ID.
If we’re giving notes being caught with the gun and the manifesto also bad. And then going to sit down and eat at a McDonald’s while on the run. And wearing a mask in Altoona where he probably could have just walked in with his face showing an not gotten caught because the surveillance photos from the NYPD looked so different. And then giving a police officer a fake ID which gave them probable cause for everything…yeah police are going to catch the fake ID…
He’s obviously not a professional hitman. I wonder if NYPD/Feds would have been able to track him down eventually anyway with the evidence left in New York.
Not that I’m advocating anything, but it certainly does make sense to have a change of clothes stashed nearby to change your appearance rather quickly. Just need an effective means of discarding them (maybe set it on fire inside a dumpster? I dunno).
Protip: It’s called Gray Man and there’s more to it so get educated and practice.🙂
Yup. This is also why protestors are encouraged to wear plain black clothes, like a hoodie, gloves, sunglasses, mask, and black jeans. When everyone is wearing nearly identical clothes, it introduces a lot of reasonable doubt in any resulting security camera footage. It’s called Black Bloc.
Don’t wear black block if you’re not prepared to be harassed though. Instead wear something theoretically identifiable but bland. Gray shirt, blue jeans, no jewelry, identifiable tattoos covered… You want to look like just another person so that when you walk away nobody thinks you look like a protestor
And for the love of fuck don’t wear black block while committing solo crimes. It’s about “you just described a lot of people here”
I believe he’s half cummings.
edward believed that things of Importance should be capitalized to emphasize what he was saying and that the start of a sentence or pronouns Don’t need to be capitalized if not used in a way of importance.
Mostly I just wanted to ejaculate these words onto screen to make a cummings joke though…
He got out. He simply got on a bus. That wasn’t the problem. It was getting in that was the problem, that’s where his face was captured on camera. As to how to solve that… You’re on your own for that.
If I ever did something crazy, I’d thoroughly burn those clothes when I’m done.
“He bought the bag before they automatically tracked all purchasers with a unique ID on the bags they sell.”
The fuck?
What other companies have unique optionally-registered serial numbers for warranties? My lawn maintenance equipment (Ego), my luggage (Briggs and Riley), and my wine glasses (Waterford), off the top of my head. It’s not uncommon, and, again, optional.
The weird part is connecting serial number to customer account for anything without internet access (or really, I’d draw the line at electronic components), no?
OP is misquoting and misinterpreting what was said here.
We cannot associate a product serial number with a customer unless that customer has voluntarily registered their product on our site
But they said that wouldn’t even apply if he had registered because his bag was a V1, and
we did not implement unique serial numbers until V2
Why would I want a company to track my backpack? How is that a feature?
I don’t think that ‘tracing’ here means something like ‘there’s a GPS tracker in every backpack’.
You could see this type of backpack in a CCTV shot. Later the police recovered a backpack - that they thought was the one on CCTV - and now need to find the owner. If it was registered at the company by the owner, they may have been able to say “oh yes, that serial number is registered to a customer. Here’s their name and address they told us when registering at $date”. If the customer never registered their bag, the only piece of information they could give out would (maybe) be something like “This bag was sent to an Amazon warehouse at $date, ask them if they know who bought these bags around $date”
Ah yes, product registration. Good to know me absentmindedly not registering is fighting against police tracking and CEO business strategy.
Except the “by the owner.” The problem here is they are auto-registered at time of purchase.
Peak Design sells to third party resellers, so no, their products aren’t registered automatically.
I don’t know this specific brand but because of this quote in the article I assumed it’d not be automatically registered:
“If you do choose to register a Peak Design product, and it is lost or stolen, you can reach out to our customer service team and have your registration erased, so the bag is not traceable back to you.”
Why do they say “if you do choose to register” if you don’t have a choice?
They don’t. Nearly everything that you buy has a unique serial number, and if consumers are buying direct from manufacturers it could, in theory, link a consumer to a serial number. It’s unlikely that they could make those connections, though. Peak sells direct, but they also sell through 3rd party stores and distributors, where there is an abstraction between the serials and consumers.
If you have ever registered a product you purchased with the manufacturer, you’ve done exactly that. They’re not talking about tracking the product after you buy it. They’re basically just talking about automatic proof of purchase.
I would assume these are intended for use when hiking and mountain climbing. It could save your life if someone else has your GPS coordinates when you go missing.
Nah, nothing about Peak Designs (or any electronic gear backpack company)is intended for serious hiking let alone mountain climbing. The inexperienced day and over night hikers may rely on a phone as newer ones have rudimentary GPS ability. The more serious are using things like InReach.
