A lot of the folks here who are criticizing the writer for “paying the ransom” (of sorts) rather than let the cops take it for evidence: slow your roll and put

A lot of the folks here who are criticizing the writer for “paying the ransom” (of sorts) rather than let the cops take it for evidence: slow your roll and put yourself in her shoes. It’s not that she wanted it “fast”, it’s that the alternative was waiting •months• for the gears of justice to turn. Furthermore, this is a person whose income was such that she had to turn to friends to scrape together a lousy $250 to get it back — the snow could be thawing by the time this person could buy a new laptop OR the original was returned by the police. Justice is for people who can afford it (or, hate the game, not the player)