Summary
Use of the Quadro Tracker which is supposed to locate anything, for the fight against illegal drugs
Entrepreneur Wade Quattlebaum was making substantial profits from his Quadro Tracker which he claims can locate anything, until the FBI approached him for the use of the gadget in the fight against illegal drugs. This eventually revealed his device as a fraud.See the full content of this document
Extract
Box of dreams.
How a too-good-to-be-true tool fooled drug warriors.
Wade Quattlebaum had a dream, and he wanted to tell the world. Even better - and all the more American - he wanted to sell the world. He had built a better mousetrap - better than a better mousetrap, really. Quattlebaum went beyond doing something better to doing something that couldn't be done at all without his magic widget. 'He had designed a box that could find things - somehow. He wouldn't tell you, me, or anybody, not even the U.S. Patent Office, exactly how. It looked like just a plastic cellular phone, about 4 inches long, with a chrome antenna loosely attached. If you walked around, looking for something, the antenna was supposed to pivot around and point in the direction of what you were looking for. It was sold as a golf ball finder to begin with. But then Quattlebaum discovered further benefits and further possibilities for his gadget. With the insertion ...See the full content of this document
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