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A man in Ontario used three hidden AirTags to track down his stolen car — and eight others.

As reported by CP24 in Toronto, a man with the last name of Lorne realized that his Range Rover had been stolen in broad daylight outside of his house. According to his account, the car theives were able to bypass the built-in tracking system from the car manufacturer to avoid being caught.

“The thieves were able to disable the tracker in my car, put there by the manufacturer,” Lorne said.

Meanwhile, his wallet, along with his kids phones, which were in the car, were thrown out of the vehicle before it was stolen, which Lorne said he believes was a preventive measure to avoid him from tracking the location of his car.

Incredibly, someone stole his new Range Rover after he replaced the old one a mere thirty days after the original theft. Thankfully, Lorne had hidden three AirTags throughout the car and was able to work with the police to locate it this time.

Right away, he logged into his Find My app and located all three of his AirTags near Manville and Comsock roads in Scarborough, listed as a metal recycling plant.

After dropping his kids at school, he headed to that location and called the police. With no success reaching an officer, he drove to the 41 Division police station. Toronto police spokesperson David Hopkinson confirmed to CTV News Toronto that a report of this nature was received by police on Thursday.

“I pressed my panic button and you heard it going off,” Lorne said. “The next day I was told they recovered nine cars.” Due to an ongoing investigation, police could not comment further on the incident.

It’s good to see at least some people are using AirTags for their intended purpose.

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An Australian mayor downed “several glasses of wine” and crashed her car into a tree just hours after meeting with the families of drunk drivers and vowing to fight the deadly scourge, according to reports .

Karen Williams, mayor of the Queensland town of Redlands, was blasted by the families she’d met with after the embarrassing episode last week revealed her hypocrisy. One victim’s loved one said the mayor called her in tears to apologize after the crash.

“[I told her], ‘we trusted you and you let us down … You’re the one supposed to be helping us to raise awareness and you’ve let us all down,’” Judy Lindsay, whose daughter Hayley was killed by a drunk driver in 2009, told 7news.com.au. “She is lucky she didn’t kill someone.”

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Lindsay called for Williams to immediately resign.

Williams, 55, had earlier met with Lindsay and the families of pregnant couple Kate Leadbetter and Matthew Field, who were killed in January 2021 along with their unborn baby by a drunk teen in a stolen car. She called the 10-year sentence meted out to the teen “manifestly inadequate.”

“We talked about road safety awareness, we talked about drink driving, we talked about drug driving, we talked about how we were going to change the youth justice act and how we were going to get this story out,” Lindsay told 7NEWS.

Williams pledged to make stopping drunk driving her political “legacy,” Lindsay said.

Williams, who admitted having “several glasses of wine” before the crash, has so far refused to resign, claiming it would be a “rash decision.” She has not been charged with the accident. She suffered minor injuries and was taken to the hospital.

“There are no excuses for my actions,” Williams said in a televised news conference. “I made a serious error of judgment and I will continue to service this community and I am deeply regretful for those actions. Fortunately there were no injuries, and no one else was involved.”

Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli said Williams must face the consequences for her actions.

“I have zero tolerance for drunk driving, and it doesn’t matter who you are, it doesn’t matter what you do, it doesn’t matter where you live: you should never put yourself in that position,” he told reporters on Monday.

“And there has to be consequences for actions.”

Most Australian jurisdictions have blood-alcohol limits of .05% for drivers, and steep fines and criminal penalties for those convicted of the offense.

A Honda stolen from a driveway in southeast Park Hill on Monday night contained two suitcases of traditional handmade Osage clothing and family heirlooms.

The family victimized by the theft is devastated and is asking for the public’s help in returning the otherwise irreplaceable items.

“These clothes have been worn by multiple members of our family over multiple generations,” said Ben Jacobs, whose family owns Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery, in Denver.

The vehicle stolen was a navy blue Honda CRV, Colorado license 988-WET, Jacobs said in an Instagram post on Tuesday.

“While the car is replaceable and meaningless, there were many family heirlooms inside the vehicle that are priceless and irreplaceable,” Jacobs said in the post.

Jacobs’s mother had just returned from Oklahoma, driving 12 hours after attending Osage I’nlonshka ceremonial dances. The trunk contained several suitcases of the traditional, family-made Osage clothes.

“Many of these heirlooms have been passed down through generations of our family, including an eagle wing fan that belonged to our great uncle Harold Redcorn and a fan gifted to our mother by her own grandfather,” Jacobs said.

Jacobs’s grandmother, who passed away in 1986, was a master ribbon worker who made by hand the clothing that was stolen. Some of the stolen items date back a century. Family pieces stolen have been worn by multiple family members over three generations.

Items include:

• A pair of women’s moccasins recently made and beaded by an 80-year-old Osage elder
• Two fingerwoven women’s belts and a girl’s broadcloth ribbon work skirt
• A man’s suit, two sets of leather leggings and broadcloth ribbon work breechcloth
• A boy’s broadcloth suit, leggings and breechcloth
• Men’s and boy’s moccasins, an eagle wing fan, beaded bandoliers

The clothing was in two vintage brown and blue hard-sided suitcases. The family is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the return of the suitcases and heirlooms.

Denver police are investigating the incident, said Sean Towle, a police spokesman.

Anyone with information on the case, or who spots the Honda or the distinctive clothing, is asked to call Denver Crime Stoppers 720-913-7867.