I had a break in yesterday afternoon. It set off our security system but by the time the cops got there, the thieves were gone. They took my MacBook Pro along with my wife's gold jewelry.
The MacBook Pro is password protected, so I figure it's going to end up in a Apple store or AASP at some point as I don't see these guys as being smart enough to remove the password protection. The specs are:
- 15.4" MacBook Pro Santa Rosa Model
- 4GB RAM (aftermarket)
- 250GB hard drive (aftermarket)
- A black skinit.com skin on the back that says "Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null/"
The serial number is W87272V3X91 and it was purchased at Carbon Computing Toronto in July 2007.
If you spot this notebook, call the police and reference report 3111853 and please PM me.
Thanks for your help.
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Hopefully the police in TO keep tabs on pawnshops, since that is where many of these stolen items end up. They started a program here in Hamilton and they have found tons of stuff, and of course, since most of these B&E bozos are on drugs, they leave their real name and address with the pawnshop...
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Ouch, seems to be a lot of break-ins lately. Our garage was broken into on the weekend and 3 generators, a compressor, a wheelbarrow, and a gas-powered chain-saw was taken.
Geez. I don't know what happened to my reply.
Too long winded I guess and it disappeared...
Anyways, very sorry for your loss and inconvenience
We had the same thing happen to us a couple of years ago.
There is a program that the police and pawn shops use to merge serial #s and hopefully get a "hit" for stolen property.
The police found the scumbag that broke into our house and they didn't exactly say how they caught him, just "a tip".
I know this program is in Alberta, not sure if it's Canada wide or not.
I sincerely hope they catch whoever is responsible and you get your stuff back.
Don't forget criminals are dumber than a sack of hammers...
I've sent all of the Mac dealers I can think of a message about the theft. I've also had the help of Apple Customer relations as well. Plus I am now the proud owner of a new MacBook Pro (2.66 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 320GB HD) as I needed one to try to pull photos off of iPhoto from the SuperDuper backup that gets made nightly (See, backups are important) so that I can file my insurance claim.
One other thing, I had a motion sensitive camera in my place that took pictures of the dirtbags. The cops have these and they've said that "we've gotten people with less" so I'm hopeful that these dirtbags are going to be in jail shortly.
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ACDT, ACPT, MCSE 2003, ACSA
MacBookPro 2.66 Ghz Core 2 Duo (Mid 2009) W/OSX & Vista, WinXP, Win2K via Parallels, 8GB iPod Nano W/Video
I work on the dark side because the pay is better than what I could get the Apple world. Sad but true
I've sent all of the Mac dealers I can think of a message about the theft. I've also had the help of Apple Customer relations as well. Plus I am now the proud owner of a new MacBook Pro (2.66 Ghz, 4GB RAM, 320GB HD) as I needed one to try to pull photos off of iPhoto from the SuperDuper backup that gets made nightly (See, backups are important) so that I can file my insurance claim.
One other thing, I had a motion sensitive camera in my place that took pictures of the dirtbags. The cops have these and they've said that "we've gotten people with less" so I'm hopeful that these dirtbags are going to be in jail shortly.
sorry to hear about that, but it sounds like you're doing everything possible to get it back.
i don't work for these folks, but I have this installed on my machine.
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