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- alanocu, on 07/11/2009, -3/+43Dear thief, you may have taken my Christmas present laptop, but can I please have copies of my school paper? They should be saved as "Thesis" and "Berlin Airlift 2." Thanks. http://www.flickr.com/photos/willisdrummer/4094397 ...
- slvrbullet87, on 07/11/2009, -1/+34"I know if someone stole my laptop, I'd grow an extra leg to chase em' down!"
wouldnt an extra leg make it harder to run? - jwolcott, on 07/11/2009, -0/+30"I know if someone stole my laptop, I'd grow an extra leg to chase em' down!"
Internet Tough Guy strikes again! - scoot2006, on 07/11/2009, -2/+26Dugg for "Yoink"
- amirman, on 07/11/2009, -0/+22listen pal, i don't want to have to come over there and kick your ass but i will. I will trace your IP to your ISP and find out where you live and put my steel toe boot right in your taint with the force of a thousand suns!
- davidjunit, on 07/11/2009, -0/+20"would-be-criminal"?
Not sure on this one but I think that once you commit a crime you ARE a criminal. - ChromaVita, on 07/11/2009, -0/+20My dad ended up chasing down some guys that grabbed his laptop bag in a foreign airport one time. It was a company laptop so he wouldn't have had to pay for it, and I think it ended up broken anyways, but it's the principle of the matter.
- sockpuppets, on 07/11/2009, -0/+17Maybe that's his real number.
- UrineEngineer, on 07/11/2009, -0/+15I guess this just shows how insecure windows are.
- bnorman, on 07/11/2009, -0/+13Defending your property is a real turn on.
- jayrok, on 07/11/2009, -0/+12He was obviously not 10-finger typing.
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Uh, no thanks. - dman24752, on 07/11/2009, -2/+13That just sounds like the intro to a gay porno.
- staystilljason, on 07/11/2009, -1/+12Grow an extra leg?
You mean gain an erection? - Mujokan, on 07/11/2009, -0/+9I got pickpocketed a few weeks ago. This guy comes up to me talking about Ronaldo and trying to do some soccer moves. He was drunk... He's kind of trying to tackle me and I was trying to keep him from falling over. Then I walk away and about 10 yards later I notice my wallet is gone. So I ran after him and caught up to him. I started swearing at him (in French, I live in Europe) and telling him to give my wallet back. I was so angry but I was using the polite form which I think he found funny. I grabbed him by the lapels and I was wondering whether to shoulder-charge him through a plate glass window. Luckily he still had the wallet (he took so long to grab it that his accomplice had outpaced him) and he was so drunk he dropped it behind him. So I picked it up and backed off, still yelling at him.
So, so annoying. Now I have to wear a damn chain on the damn thing. I guess I was lucky not to get knifed, but I didn't stop to think. - ScientistBlah, on 07/11/2009, -1/+9Gutsy move. I'd be more impressed that the person actually tried it than I would be pissed that my laptop was gone.
- FortyCaliber, on 07/11/2009, -0/+8Tired, out of breath and no idea where the bad guy went?
- marcb83, on 07/11/2009, -0/+8out of his hands through the window
- techdever, on 07/11/2009, -1/+8He was using Ubuntu Gutsy
- Feraldr00d, on 07/11/2009, -0/+7Render you unable to hit submit?
- Anand999, on 07/11/2009, -1/+7Getting your laptop stolen in middle of writing a sentence would
- Mujokan, on 07/11/2009, -0/+5You should cut down on the gay porn.
- EddiePotato, on 07/11/2009, -2/+7Then there are lots of people in the world who would just love to impress you.
- oddtom, on 07/11/2009, -0/+5Er, not really... popping out the CMOS battery for ten minutes, resetting it via the CMOS jumper on the board, etc. Usually more of a mild nuisance than anything.
As for the drive? It's probably getting repartitioned/reformatted prior to be sold on Ebay anyway.
A physical lock on the laptop would probably be the best bet. Granted, a hollow victory if there ever was one. You're still without a laptop. :-\
Either that or monitoring software that utilizes the webcam, keystroke logger, etc. - MadEnvoy, on 07/11/2009, -1/+5Steve Rammer - "wouldnt an extra leg make it harder to run?"
Biff Rimripper - "I call my third leg Penis, and yes it's hard"
Bow chica wow wow... - inactive, on 07/11/2009, -2/+6Steve Holt!
- schrutefan, on 07/11/2009, -0/+4If it was a netbook, he would've gotten away.
- ChromaVita, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3What area code is that?
- 4AntiStupid, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3Hmmm...does that counts as a burglary or a larceny?
- matthekc, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3Yeah because a common street criminal can tear down a laptop without breaking it and knows exactly what to do to reset the bios.
- theremixtrack, on 07/11/2009, -5/+8In the picture, why would someone tear off one of those slits of paper. Do they really need to remember "***** You"?
- Mujokan, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2What have you got against George Meyer? He's one of the best Simpsons writers.
- kwestin, on 07/12/2009, -0/+2Should have had GadgetTrak
- inactive, on 07/11/2009, -1/+3Thief: Hey! Hey! Hey! WTF! get off me man!
Victim: What do you think I'm trying to do? - Gee1004, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2My window has a screen and bars
- teamgwho, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2The Foot Clan strikes again.
- poracious, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2No, but a common street criminal might have a sibling/friend/friend-of-friend who they can go to and say "oh hey, the BIOS on this is locked and I can't get into it, can you help me?" or whatever, and that person would do it for them without ever realising it was stolen.
- keysersozejr, on 07/12/2009, -0/+2Yoink! makes this a victimless crime.
- massmediator, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Once I almost had my wallet stolen, but luckily I heard Yoink! behind me and was able to catch the thief.
- Wormwoods, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1Are you a libertarian or something?
- diggydoc, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1only if you have 2 legs
- xirfan, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1bit hard to do with a 18"+ laptop, go bigger I say.
- tattokris, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1unsecured?
- angryguy2009, on 07/11/2009, -1/+2C'mon, was the guy 'held until police arrived' or 'beaten within an inch of his life until police arrived?' I know which one it would be if it was my laptop.
- chompapotamus, on 07/11/2009, -2/+2BONK!
- theodenking, on 07/11/2009, -2/+2You don't have to be a "tough guy" to chase after a petty thief, just not a complete pussy.
- matthekc, on 07/11/2009, -2/+2It's called bios startup passwords or laptop lojack. If your so lucky a hard-disk password. If everyone did this thieves would realize stealing a laptop got them caught or with a neat looking paperweight.
- VAXcat, on 07/13/2009, -0/+0 I live in Texas - if a thief did that to me, I'd let Mr. 9mm do the chasing...entirely legal...
- inactive, on 07/11/2009, -1/+1lol wouldn't you chase them down?
- SyntraFTW, on 07/11/2009, -1/+1Uncle Mike!
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