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Lost laptop & camera - left in a taxi in Dublin

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  • 29-03-2013 11:58pm
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    face1990
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    (Mods: thread about this is also in the Dublin forum, but I feel it is also relevant to this forum)

    I'm hoping you could help me track down some items I left on the back seat of a taxi on the 28th - a laptop & Canon camera + lenses.

    I work in independant filmmaking, and these are essential items which I will struggle to replace.

    Additional info: I hailed the taxi at approx. 1:30am on 28th March on Amiens Street (at the junction with Buckingham Street), and got off in Elm Mount, Beaumont.
    All I know about the driver is that his middle name is Innocent (an apt name I hope) and was from Biafra/Nigeria.

    It's a black MSI laptop (containing all my family photos, and much work-related stuff) and a Canon 550D camera with lenses & memory cards.

    Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated they are expensive but moreover personally important equipment.

    PS: I have been in contact with all the Garda lost & found offices in Dublin, to no avail.


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    ShadowFox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭ShadowFox


    Chance of getting your item back is slim to none as the next person in the taxi could have taken them if the driver was unaware. You could try ringing around Taxi firms on the off chance that he was a radio Taxi for one of them the base might know the name


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    fullgas
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    This wont work in practice but you could find out who the driver was by getting a Garda to look at CCTV of your journey home, getting their reg number and cross referencing it with the new taxi driver app:

    http://transportforireland.ie/taxi/check-if-a-taxi-driver-is-properly-licensed/

    Your best bet though is to report it lost to your insurance company and move on.


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    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,968 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    face1990 wrote: »
    (Mods: thread about this is also in the Dublin forum, but I feel it is also relevant to this forum)

    I'm hoping you could help me track down some items I left on the back seat of a taxi on the 28th - a laptop & Canon camera + lenses.

    I work in independant filmmaking, and these are essential items which I will struggle to replace.

    Additional info: I hailed the taxi at approx. 1:30am on 28th March on Amiens Street (at the junction with Buckingham Street), and got off in Elm Mount, Beaumont.
    All I know about the driver is that his middle name is Innocent (an apt name I hope) and was from Biafra/Nigeria.

    It's a black MSI laptop (containing all my family photos, and much work-related stuff) and a Canon 550D camera with lenses & memory cards.

    Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated they are expensive but moreover personally important equipment.

    PS: I have been in contact with all the Garda lost & found offices in Dublin, to no avail.

    You should give it a few days for the item to be left into lost and found; the driver or a well meaning passenger may not have gotten a chance to leave it into a Garda station for reporting. Alternatively, contact the taxi office of the NTA on Tuesday and see if they can make contact with the driver based on the bit of his name you have. With a bit of luck these should help turn up your wares :)


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    oisindoyle
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    Sorry to hear about that OP.
    Always always always ,get a printed receipt from a driver .This will show the time of your journey ,the price ,and the drivers plate number and reg.,
    I wish you well in getting your items ,but I wouldn't hold my breath :(


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    face1990
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    Slunk, Innocent was my driver's middle name. i.e. the middle name on his taxi licence. Is it that guys first name?

    But yeah I'm hoping his unusual name might help me track him down.

    Thanks for the help everyone, I've been contacting radio stations and taxi companies for the last few days, getting the word out.
    But as times goes on it seems less and less likely that I'll be recovering my stuff, and I have also started contacting second hand electronics shops and pawn shops just in case.

    Fingers crossed!


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    Slunk
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    face1990 wrote: »
    Slunk, Innocent was my driver's middle name. i.e. the middle name on his taxi licence. Is it that guys first name?

    But yeah I'm hoping his unusual name might help me track him down.

    Thanks for the help everyone, I've been contacting radio stations and taxi companies for the last few days, getting the word out.
    But as times goes on it seems less and less likely that I'll be recovering my stuff, and I have also started contacting second hand electronics shops and pawn shops just in case.

    Fingers crossed!

    Well I ran his number through the drivers check app and his car is a red Nissan almera. That sound familiar?


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    face1990
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    The car I was in was dark coloured, either black or a dark blue. It was nighttime and I wasn't really paying attention to the car unfortunately.


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    hearny
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    Did the laptop have any remote login software running on it. The likes of logmein

    It's a long shot but if it did cheek to see if its been online since it went missing.


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    cormie
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    This might help: http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/


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    Victor
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    Talk to the NTA taxi office. www.nationaltransport.ie


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