Game designer spills beans on chubby-fancying chap with his stolen Mac

If you're robbed, remember this:

A mate of mine who's a copper comforted me after a burglary as follows: you've won. You've got a house, and stuff worth stealing. You will face some inconvenience and annoyance, but overall, your life will continue and your stuff will be replaced. In time, you'll get over it. Meanwhile, the scum who robbed you live a life of shit. Their relationships are bad, their clothes are bad, their housing is bad, their health is bad, and if they even have a job, it's usually shit. Their lives are a stressful struggle every day and they have nothing at all to look forward to except a likely early death brought on by their shit lifestyle choices. Rejoice in the fact that anyone who burgles you is doing so because their life is unimaginably shittier than yours is, and always will be, until they die young and unhappy.

Fair cheered me up, he did.

Cops are lazy and target the wrong people

They spend there days targeting the normal, tax-paying citizen instead of arresting real criminals - those stealing billions from the countries economy, theives who break into your house or steal your car, corporate tax evaders, illegal migrants working in the black economy, benefit cheats, illegal trespassers - you know, the types of crimes which actually require some REAL work and actual policiing.

But no.

Instead they spend their time pointing speed camera at motorists, or nicking people for self-inflicted actions (taking recreational drugs, smoking in the wrong place, not wearing a seatbelt....). These are easy marks - people who have income, and pay taxes, and have a residence - the people the police are supposed to be protecting.

But we are are an easy to target cos they know we are honest, and pay our way in society and won't kick up a fuss.

Perhaps people would have more respect for the if they nicked some real crimials for a change.

How do you prove that the Hidden application is installed on your computer, and that you didn't crack your way into someone elses machine, install it, and then claim that your computer was stolen?

On a side note - anything of value easily removable - record the serial numbers!

Want the police to arrive...

...phone from the same street and tell them you've recovered the your goods and the perp needs an ambulance.

The victim of a crime should never, never be placed in the wrong.

Re: Police Triage

Police triage definately happens in my largely rural county. When it's 'interesting' in the county town (Christmas, New Year, Saturday night, etc.) most bobbies are deployed there as their presence on the streets reduces crime. At least three times that I know of this has meant there are only 2 cars (each with an officer and PCSO) to cover the whole of the rural area. If one of these cars stopped a minor offence at the start of their shift, they would have to drive up to 30 miles to the county town to incarcerate the perp and then spend a large percentage of the rest of thier shift filling in the paperwork.

PCC's need to get more bobbies on the beat!

what, no kickstarter?

How come this guy hasn't created a kickstarter to name and shame the thief? This would be one that a lot of people would get behind. Not to pay for the laptop, mind you, but to pay for poster designs and billboard space all around the thief's location. Wouldn't that be a shock for that guy to leave the house and see his "O-face" plastered on every corner. Maybe even at the bus stop for added hilarity.

Hidden Stupidity

Why are these laptop owners who are smart enough to use a program like Hidden so utterly stupid as to think the thief is going to be the one who uses the laptop from then on? The likelihood of that is minimal. So they go to all the time and trouble of humiliating the new owner, who may be a seedy character in their private life but is just as much an unwitting victim of the original crime as they are. How stupid is that? The only one laughing at both of them is the thief, who would have sold the laptop on straight away.