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My home was once burgled and the thief made of with an ipad (among other things). We tracked it down using preyproject.com and with the help of the cops, retrie
by markdown 7y ago
My home was once burgled and the thief made of with an ipad (among other things). We tracked it down using preyproject.com and with the help of the cops, retrieved it from someone who had bought it from someone on the street.
Had I gotten it back then there'd have been very little harm done. However, the cops held it as evidence for so long that by the time I got it back it had gone obsolete.
The justice system ended up doing me more harm than the thief did (and they never did catch him). I don't live in the US.
- dTal 7y agoThis exact thing happened to me. The thief stole my bicycle out of the front hallway, and an RC helicopter from a kitchen shelf. The bike was recovered when a friend of mine recognized it in town, but enlisting the police to retreive it safely (instead of just stealing it back) resulted in the loss of the bike for several more weeks; had I not made an impassioned plea there's no telling how long they would have held it. The police recovered the RC helicopter in a seperate raid some time later; I was called in to the station to identify it, and then I didn't see the helicopter for another year.