[Avodah] was this ok?

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

R' SZN:
sent this to the other list, but they felt that these are legitimate
halachic issues.....

heard that in town a donor noted, after giving a check that his iDevice was
missing. using the built in tracking capability, he was able to locate it
across town, and confronted the denying culprit by ringing the number of the
device, which was 'pores the simlah'. he demanded and received his device
and his check.

questions

1] were tracking devices in the bans

2] is it muttar to use such technology to recover a stolen device, when the
perp might be embarrassed [as in this case where the individual denied
before the ringer went off]

3] while i assume it's muttar to take back ones borrowed tech device, what
about the check-- what halachic parameter would allow him to ask for his
money back

4] would it be allowed to turn him into the police? could he? should he?

5] is there any hetter to tell anyone?

weren't there always stories from the alter heim about the local goniff?
did those ganovim steal from jews or from others?
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1) Don't see why this is material.
2) Why not? Are you not allowed to take a thief to a Din Torah?
3) I am thinking of two rationales: a) Mekach Taos - if it was the thief's
own tzedakah, he now finds out that the tzedakah is run by a thief, that
would be reason enough to take the money back. Whether he needs to change
the money to a different tzedakah (because hilchos nedorim) is beyond me,
though. B) He can take it back and give it to the tzedakah himself, because
otherwise he would be unsure whether it will get there! (OTOH, is he
stealing the thief's commission?) 


KT,
MYG