The story so far: 15. Jan 2011: The Device was stolen. The thief got it working around 22:00 (Thats when it logged on to mysqueezebox.com for the first time)
18. Jan 2011: I reported it to the police as stolen. It took 2 hours to explain to them how 'cool' it is that I have the IP address of the person who took it. They explained that they probably can't help me because the device 'only' costs CHF 300.- (Around 300$) and it's not worth their time. I made big fuss about them being useless and how much time we have wasted already. They even offered to come to the place it was stolen from and dust for fingerprints... Eventually they understood that an IP address with a timestamp is better. 21. Jan 2011: The Police called to me inform me that they will look up the IP with the provider and it will cost them CHF 250.- (Again 250$) to do this. 26. Jan: 2011: They called me to tell me that they have an address and they will be going around on Monday :) 08. Feb: 2011: The police called me and informed me that they had recovered my Boom :) The guy (Who I suspected to begin with) had already sold it on ricardo.ch (eBay type platform for Switzerland) and already had it packaged ready to go, but had not sent it yet. He confessed to stealing it and as he had already sold it online he could not pull the: "I just borrowed it" line. He will now be formally charged by the police and I can also press charges. I am still on the fence if I should press charges too. The guy is a painter who works for a company I contracted to paint my house while I was on holiday abroad. He had a key and just took it which is pretty bad and he had sold it which is a bit of a character fault, to put it mildly. Giving him a criminal record will probably make his life harder, but I probably will teach him a lesson and hopfully stop him from robbing the next customer. All in all mysqueezebox.com is a great service! I would never have signed up if it was optional. Not only has it recovered my Boom, but it has restored a little bit of faith in the justice system and given me a good geek-story to tell my fellow geeks. Thanks also to 'andyg' for his help! -- Sike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2458 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84847 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
