Re: OT - lost powerbook found, good story

2005-02-23 Thread Erich Zechar
When my wife's car was broken into, our PLPD insurance wouldn't cover anything, nor would homeowner's insurance. Homeowners would have covered anything in the car stolen of value not attached to the car, including CDs, but since the car had a CD player (stolen as well), the CDs went uncovered.

Re: OT - lost powerbook found, good story

2005-02-23 Thread Richard Adams
SNIP This is typical, actually. When I had almost my entire CD collection stolen from my car the police said they would do nothing about it, even thogh it was more than $1000 worth of CDs- most of which I can guarantee that the thieves would not want anyways, and most likely threw away. In trut

Re: OT - lost powerbook found, good story

2005-02-23 Thread Ted Lovejoy
But call them anyway and get a police report for insurance purposes, or maybe it can come off your taxes, or something. At least it adds to the statistics of the whole scene, and when it gets bad enough maybe someone will do SOMETHING about it. Ted On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:34:39 +, [EMAIL PROT

Re: OT - lost powerbook found, good story

2005-02-23 Thread Darkwolf45
This is typical, actually. When I had almost my entire CD collection stolen from my car the police said they would do nothing about it, even thogh it was more than $1000 worth of CDs- most of which I can guarantee that the thieves would not want anyways, and most likely threw away. In truth you

Re: OT - lost powerbook found, good story

2005-02-23 Thread Yersinia
WOW. Good story, although I still feel bad for the guy who that his Powerbook stolen in the first place, and it disgusts me to hear about police wouldn't "have time" to investigate personal property theft. I can only imagine how good this guy felt when he DID get his Powerbook back. Erich Z s

Re: OT - lost powerbook found, good story

2005-02-22 Thread Erich Zechar
Quite the lucky break. The best piece of advice I ever got was to use a lock, and password protect everything. At login, the password question can be "reward for return to " or something of the sort. No matter what you do though, most of the time when it's gone it's gone for good. Also, thi

OT - lost powerbook found, good story

2005-02-22 Thread Brian Mahoney
This is from craiglist in Toronto. I figured everyone here would get a good smile from it. It was listed under 'free' , with the offer of good karma, shipping included. It was listed under anonymous so I figured it was ok to post. Read on : __ My laptop was stolen...my really nice Powerbook