Catch me if you Can

I was traveling home Sunday afternoon and listening to my NPR podcasts in the car. I enjoy a wide range of podcasts from NPR, but one of my favorites is Wait, Wait, Don't tell me! It a great hour long weekly current events quiz show hosted by Peter Sagel, out of Chicago. I highly recommend that you check out their podcast here: http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/index.html. You'll learn something and be amused at the same time. Ok, enough plugging the show, back to my point.



One of the questions they asked was: what new product contains a gps tracking device that has some womens rights groups outraged? This was an episode from November, so perhaps you've all heard of this, but the answer is lingerie. To this I say, Really? I find this disturbing on several levels. The line is called Catch me if you Can, and comes from Lucia Lorio, a designer in Brazil. The designer says that the reason for the GPS is "'In London, New York, Rio de Janiero - wherever there is danger, the underwear may prove to be a lifesaver." I'm sorry, but no. First of all, unless you're giving the lingerie out to prostitutes, what average woman wears her lingerie around town running errands, or better yet to work or a night out? In the bedroom, and on the floor, where proper lingerie belongs, there is no need for GPS. I also question the women right's groups who are calling this invention a modern day chasity belt. Any women who is dumb enough to wear lingerie with GPS attached to it to cheat on her boyfriend/husband should be caught. This whole concept is redicilous. Especially when the going rate for the two piece set is 500 euro, 700 euro for the advanced model. If you pay the extra 200 euro, will your lingerie drive you home too?