(Image removed re malware, 2017!)
This is a curious image for electronic tagging / monitoring. Surely the purpose of ringing a pigeon is different from the purpose of ringing Martha Stewart?
It appears that Ms Stewart, who is poised to relaunch her career with two television shows, has been cheating a little on the rules of her confinement. The result of this: the home confinement stage of her original sentence will no longer end on 8 August and has instead been extended by three weeks.
Interesting that the translation of the rather neutral term “anklet” should be the heavily negatively connoted “Fußfessel”.
Yes, it’s a strange word. I have never encountered it in this context before – ‘electronic tagging’ is what I’ve heard. Anklet sounds like a decorative metal chain. The things themselves look like neither – black plastic, boxy.