Laptop stolen - Software has screenshots of thief & exact location.Guards do nothing

Ronan cork · 24-02-2012 4:28am

That's really pathetic. Do you mind telling us if it's in a city or out in the country? Read last week 40% of Garda stations don't have Internet...

Freemasonry · 24-02-2012 4:30am

what do you expect? all guards are pigs, thats probably why id shoot one of i had the chance.

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oranbhoy67 · 24-02-2012 4:43am

having had dealings with the police in a few different countries & with the gardai since moving here i can safely say they are the weakest,most inept, laziest & thickest "law enforcment officers" i have had the misfortune of dealing with anywhere... by a long shot

MagicSean · 24-02-2012 4:44am

Freemasonry wrote: »

what do you expect? all guards are pigs, thats probably why id shoot one of i had the chance.

We can only hope your aim is as bad as your grasp of the English written language.

Op it takes longer than 48 hours to get a theft warrant and search team organised. Not to mention putting together a list of other stolen items to look for and prepping for an interview. Chill out

sonyvision · 24-02-2012 4:44am

Freemasonry wrote: »

what do you expect? all guards are pigs, thats probably why id shoot one of i had the chance.

Get your mates turn up with a picture of your man in your hand when he opens the door hand him the picture give him 2 choice leave with your laptop or smash in his face. Make sure your friends are big and be shouldnt bother you any more :-) take it in your own hands.

Let us know how it turns out :-)

Freemasonry · 24-02-2012 4:47am

MagicSean wrote: »

We can only hope your aim is as bad as your grasp of the English written language.

Op it takes longer than 48 hours to get a theft warrant and search team organised. Not to mention putting together a list of other stolen items to look for and prepping for an interview. Chill out

Shut up you twat, I was using my iPhone.

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longshanks · 24-02-2012 4:54am

Freemasonry wrote: »

Shut up you twat, I was using my iPhone.

How is that an excuse?

jill_valentine · 24-02-2012 4:54am

OP, this is an absolutely infuriating story to read.

Tell you what. I'm a girl. I wear glasses. We go round the place, I let you punch me in the mouth, and we inform yer man that I will quite gleefully tell the guards that he just hit me if he doesn't hand over the laptop.

This stuff is so f*cking annoying to me that I'd consider it totally worthwhile just to get the better of the little sh*t.

Mr.Biscuits · 24-02-2012 4:59am

jill_valentine wrote: »

I'm a girl. I wear glasses.

You must be the only user identifiable at a Boards Beers based on their avatar

Jimoslimos · 24-02-2012 5:00am

Freemasonry wrote: »

Shut up you twat, I was using my iPhone.

Yeah OK then.....thanks for letting us know you have an iPhone aswell.

jill_valentine · 24-02-2012 5:06am

Mr.Biscuits wrote: »

You must be the only user identifiable at a Boards Beers based on their avatar

Even more so ever since the terrible fax machine accident which sheared off 90% of my body.

holystungun9 · 24-02-2012 9:34am

Glad i didn't steal it! Every second screen shot would be of me fapping away.......that reminds me.........

ejmaztec · 24-02-2012 9:56am

micropig wrote: »

Gardai are too busy setting up road blocks in rural Mayo to deal with such trivial issues such as theft, even when they have the details of the thief....

They would have baton-charged the laptop and smashed it to pieces.

smash · 24-02-2012 10:06am

TheCardHolder wrote: »

the thief is still sitting there using the laptop and googling things like 'How to format a laptop' and 'DoneDeal.ie'.

Was your friend dumb enough to not have a password protection?

sbsquarepants · 24-02-2012 10:33am

So let me get this straight, your friends computer was stolen - he knows who has it, he knows where it is and for some reason all he's doing is bitching on the internet?
Is that the long and the short of it?

24-02-2012 10:54am

I wonder if everyone realizes that causing a crime to solve one isn't the way to go. If you go over there, smash windows or whatever everyone is saying, the Gardai would have to arrest you too. Go in and ask to speak to the superintendent. If this does nothing, go through their complaints committee.

C.O.Y.B.I.B · 24-02-2012 10:59am

smash wrote: »

Was your friend dumb enough to not have a password protection?

Better off not having Password Protection. If it was protected and the thief cant login , then it just gets formatted and its bye bye Prey Software. If he can easily login then he doesnt need to wipe it .

Nothingbetter2d · 24-02-2012 11:12am

mscull wrote: »

Better off not having Password Protection. If it was protected and the thief cant login , then it just gets formatted and its bye bye Prey Software. If he can easily login then he doesnt need to wipe it .

he can also uninstall the prey software though

War Machine 539 · 24-02-2012 11:16am

Has the OP posted where this guy is and his photos? A lot of people frequent boards, someone might know him.

You said he was selling it on Donedeal, offer to buy it from him if you see it being sold, turn up with the photos and his address and tell him your taking it back. Whats he going to do? Call the guards? ''My stolen laptop has been stolen!'' Guards would probably turn up too!

Pacifist Pigeon · 24-02-2012 11:55am

This is why we need private police forces.

pickarooney · 24-02-2012 11:57am

I am disappoint. This should have been resolved within an hour with lots of lols if you'd only gone to the right forum.

someuser905 · 24-02-2012 1:04pm

is this real? op hasn't come back

Sykk · 24-02-2012 1:09pm

jill_valentine wrote: »

OP, this is an absolutely infuriating story to read.

Tell you what. I'm a girl. I wear glasses. We go round the place, I let you punch me in the mouth, and we inform yer man that I will quite gleefully tell the guards that he just hit me if he doesn't hand over the laptop.

What has him punching you in the mouth got to do with you wearing glasses

:pac:

Paparazzo · 24-02-2012 1:15pm

OP, similar thing happened to me, the guards couldn't give a rats ass.

Here's what to do:

Wait till he look up porn and has a ****
Get a few pictures of him. (His orgasm face and hand on knob idealy)
Print a load of pictures of him poster size
Stick them up around the area he lives in. *

*That's probably illegal, so not nessessarly a good idea

cruiser178 · 24-02-2012 1:21pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I wonder if everyone realizes that causing a crime to solve one isn't the way to go. If you go over there, smash windows or whatever everyone is saying, the Gardai would have to arrest you too. Go in and ask to speak to the superintendent. If this does nothing, go through their complaints committee.

Why would you tell the gards you smashed the windows or let anyone see you for that matter

Sykk · 24-02-2012 1:24pm

You can freeze the device and make write messages that come up on the screen for those using it, send him a message!

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you give me back my laptop, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Nothingbetter2d · 24-02-2012 1:26pm

Sykk wrote: »

You can freeze the device and make write messages that come up on the screen for those using it, send him a message!

hehe good luck :P

Irish Halo · 24-02-2012 1:31pm

Athlone_Bhoy wrote: »

What software can you use to track a laptop?

There are many solutions and Prey is the one being discussed here.

It requires two things:
* An account that has no password protection (so the thief can log on andPrey can work)
* That account to not have admin privileges (so the thief can't uninstall Prey)

opinion guy · 24-02-2012 1:52pm

sonyvision wrote: »

Get your mates turn up with a picture of your man in your hand when he opens the door hand him the picture give him 2 choice leave with your laptop or smash in his face. Make sure your friends are big and be shouldnt bother you any more :-) take it in your own hands.

Let us know how it turns out :-)

To those adovcating this approach. Do you not realise that the guy will KNOW where he stole the laptop, therefore he will know how to find the OP again. Odds are, the thieves mates are scummier and stabbier than the OP's mates. If OP does what you are suggesting - then he might just be putting himself at risk of a worse beating.

Mr.Biscuits wrote: »

You must be the only user identifiable at a Boards Beers based on their avatar

No I'm pretty sure Biggins IS Commander Adama. (Edit: my 7500th post!.....I need to get out more!)

Freddie59 · 24-02-2012 1:54pm

Same happened down here recently with an iPhone which was stolen. The location was identified but the owner was told they could 'do nothing'.

Now, if the laptop was shoplifted it would be a different kettle of fish.:rolleyes:

Sykk · 24-02-2012 1:57pm

Irish Halo wrote: »

There are many solutions and Prey is the one being discussed here.

* That account to not have admin privileges (so the thief can't uninstall Prey)

Even if it does have admin privileges you can set up a password on the prey uninstall so it can't be uninstalled

Shryke · 24-02-2012 2:40pm

Get lads together and go knock on the door and if that lad refuses to open it then kick the door in. No ones calling the cops with a house full of stolen goods. The gardai are a waste of space for anything that matters. Get your laptop, give that lad a kicking and get out of there. I don't mean to sound aggressive but this is the real world here. Go get your stuff back.

Mat the trasher · 24-02-2012 2:52pm

Tell the Garda that it looked like the guy is cutting a kilo of coke in front of the laptop when you saw him the first time.

micropig · 24-02-2012 2:55pm

Mat the trasher wrote: »

Tell the Garda that it looked like the guy is cutting a kilo of coke in front of the laptop when you saw him the first time.

They probably would be around quick enough for this alright, but I wouldn't be too sure that the files and paperwork for the incident won't get mislaid;):p

BornToKill · 24-02-2012 2:57pm

On the other hand you may have inadvertently stumbled into the middle of a huge undercover surveillence operation involving the Guards, Customs, Revenue, DSP and maybe the FBI. Marching around to the guy's place could risk months of intricate painstaking work profiling this criminal gang.

Sure you want your laptop back but you may end up busted down to traffic or cooling your heels behind a desk until you learn that there's no I in team.

Captain Darling · 24-02-2012 3:02pm

djk1000 wrote: »

Go to the Garda station, refuse to leave without talking to someone above the rank of sergeant. Demand action or you'll take it to Joe Duffy, local TD, newspapers and Garda Ombudsman.

I like the way Joe Duffy ranked higher then the rest of those people...

He's the man who gets things done!

Nothingbetter2d · 24-02-2012 3:06pm

Sykk wrote: »

Even if it does have admin privileges you can set up a password on the prey uninstall so it can't be uninstalled

you can break prey easily.... log on to a boot disk and delete the exe file.

reboot and prey wont work anymore

Shryke · 24-02-2012 3:09pm

BornToKill wrote: »

On the other hand you may have inadvertently stumbled into the middle of a huge undercover surveillence operation involving the Guards, Customs, Revenue, DSP and maybe the FBI. Marching around to the guy's place could risk months of intricate painstaking work profiling this criminal gang.

Sure you want your laptop back but you may end up busted down to traffic or cooling your heels behind a desk until you learn that there's no I in team.

He'd have his ****ing laptop back though!

gerryg80 · 24-02-2012 3:17pm

TheCardHolder wrote: »

Hey guys,

Looking for advice on behalf of my friend.

His laptop was stolen last week. He has prey software installed on it so as soon as the robber went onto it two nights ago, prey took screen shots and google maps screenshots of exactly where he is. My friend went into the guards two nights ago with this exact information with all this on a plate for them and they do absouletely nothing, the thief is still sitting there using the laptop and googling things like 'How to format a laptop' and 'DoneDeal.ie'.

He is getting very frustrated as the guards know exactly where the thief lives and has several screenshots of him. Surely this is as good as CCTV footage?

Any advice for what his next step should be should the guards continue to do nothing?

Put note through door of the scumbags house saying "You robbed my labtop, now i know where you live. BIG MISTAKE. I will terrorize randomly you for as long as i can, unless I get my laptop back" then tell him to leave it the local guard station saying he found it. And ask the guards to drop it over to you.

Mal-Adjusted · 24-02-2012 4:31pm

Captain Darling wrote: »

I like the way Joe Duffy ranked higher then the rest of those people...

He's the man who gets things done!

the thing is, if it WAS brought up on liveline, the guards would get a warrant and have it sorted in a day or 2. (the laptop might get chucked, but I suspect the scumbag type don't listen to Radio 1)

24-02-2012 4:39pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I wonder if everyone realizes that causing a crime to solve one isn't the way to go.

Tell that to Rosa Parks

Wattle · 24-02-2012 4:46pm

In the immortal words of Chief Wiggum: 'We can't be 'policing' the whole city'

24-02-2012 4:48pm

Throw a few firelighters and a box of matches in his letter box, with a note saying return the laptop, or next time these will be lit.

24-02-2012 4:48pm

If the police wont do anything put the pictures up here, we are bound to find out who it is , it will get picked up by the media.

Sykk · 24-02-2012 4:50pm

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

you can break prey easily.... log on to a boot disk and delete the exe file.

reboot and prey wont work anymore

Because the guy googling "How do I format a laptop" is going to know how to do that.

rgmmg · 24-02-2012 4:55pm

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

having had dealings with the police in a few different countries & with the gardai since moving here i can safely say they are the weakest,most inept, laziest & thickest "law enforcment officers" i have had the misfortune of dealing with anywhere... by a long shot

At least they can't be blamed for lulling you into a false sense of security

micropig · 24-02-2012 4:56pm

Sykk wrote: »

Because the guy googling "How do I format a laptop" is going to know how to do that.

He does now! Thanks..

Godsentme · 24-02-2012 5:13pm

Theives rob things to sell them usually. I'd say its gone as we write. Maybe you have enough to get him jailed for a little while but I bet your friend don't get the laptop back.

denballs · 24-02-2012 5:16pm

...You and your friend get suits....fake badges and show up at his door...tell him the pc was government property and he must come with you to sign non disclosure forms.....

Have him sign a confession to robbing the pc..........beat the **** out of him and bring him to the gardai.........i personally would smash his head in with a keyboard....

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup · 24-02-2012 5:23pm

If the guards got a warrant and stuff and went for a conviction, wouldn't the laptop be taken as evidence and you wouldn't see it for months?

You want the guards to just go over and get your laptop back and that's the end of it, you know the way the legal system works that a conviction is unlikely.

I'd just get a few mates and go over get it back myself. Just knock on the door and say 'you've got something belonging to me' and walk straight in. It'd be very unlikely to get physical, too many people here are giving these scumbags too much credit, 99% are pussies and are just opportunistic scum.

Laptop stolen - Software has screenshots of thief & exact location.Guards do nothing

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