A woman has revealed how she discovered her husband had hidden an Apple AirTag in their car while he went on a three-week trip.
In an interview with British parenting platform Mumsnet, the woman explained that her husband had bought some AirTags to put in his luggage before travelling and must have decided to put one in his car too.
She said her phone notified her that the device was tracking her movements and when she asked it to “play sound,” it rang in the back seat.
On the forum, he asked what others thought about the situation and whether he should be concerned.
Many were quick to comment with their own thoughts, with some suggesting she should “have some fun and teach him a lesson.”
A woman on Mumsnet revealed that her husband hid an Apple AirTag in their car while he went on a three-week trip (file image)
The post read: ‘I don’t know if I’m being unreasonable or not, but my husband went abroad for three weeks for his brother’s wedding and left me at home with the kids, the youngest is only 13 weeks old.
‘He’s been gone since Sunday night and today, as I had just returned from taking him to school, I had a tracking alert on my phone saying that an AirTag tracker has been detected and it showed me all the places he had been that morning on the map.’
She says she was very“I was very confused at first,” but added that she knew “100 percent” that it had been planted in her car “because it showed up everywhere I had been that morning, and when I pressed ‘play sound,’ I could hear it beeping inside the back of my car!”
On the British parenting platform, the woman explained that her husband bought some AirTags to put in his luggage before his trips and must have decided to place one in his car as well.
The woman speculated: ‘He obviously hid it the day before he left, when he went to fill up my car’s gas tank before leaving.
“I’m very upset and I don’t know why. Surely, if it was for safety, since he is far from home, he would have told me before putting him there.”
She suggested that he might be “spying and tracking” me or could it be that he is really thinking about her safety?
People suggested that the woman should hide the device in various places so she could play with her partner.
Many were quick to comment with their own thoughts, with some suggesting she should “have some fun and teach him a lesson.”
One person said: “I’d have some fun with that, teach him a lesson. His behaviour is atrocious.”
Another said: “Find it and then drop it on a bus or something. When he starts wondering where you’ve been, you’ll know he did it for nefarious purposes and didn’t drop it by accident.”
Someone else wrote: ‘I would dig it up and leave it on the side of the driveway to sit there and bother you for the next 3 weeks.
“How would you deal with it? You have four weeks to think about it and see what you do when you realize your trick doesn’t work…”
A fourth wrote: ‘Email it to him then he’ll think you’re on your way to catch him.’
Meanwhile, others suggested the device could have fallen out of his suitcase and into his car.
One person said: ‘I’m wondering though, have you ruled out the possibility that it fell out of one of your bags by mistake as you say you’ve never had them before and bought them before a trip to keep your luggage safe and trackable?’
‘I mean, I’m just thinking there might be a simple explanation for this that we might be overlooking.’
Meanwhile, others suggested the device could have fallen out of her suitcase and into her car, but some claimed she should report it to the police as stalking is a crime to teach her a lesson.
Another said: “Is it possible that it’s there by accident? If not, I think I’d tell a friend to take it with me.”
The woman replied: “When I get out now, I will find out where it is exactly and then I will know for sure, but I really don’t think it was an accident. I think he put it there on purpose.”
Others said she should report him to the police because harassment is a crime, in order to teach him a lesson.
One person said: “I would work on the assumption that it wasn’t her husband and report her to the police that she has a stalker. It would be interesting to see her husband’s face when he realises that his actions (assuming it was him) are now part of a criminal investigation.”
Another added: “This is a criminal offence so I could report it to the police. I would also check his house for secret cameras and recording devices.”
Don’t put him in any random car, but have fun driving him to random places that would either annoy him or you might not get in trouble for accidentally leaving him on a bus…’
Someone else wrote: ‘CCall him and tell him that you are afraid that you are being stalked, that you had to report him to the police, and that he should come home immediately because you don’t feel safe.
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