I need your help as I propose to launch the first social media manhunt. \u00c2\u00a0Someone broke into the apartment I share with my fianc\u00c3\u00a9e, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 They stole electronics mostly, including the laptop containing her unfinished master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thesis and years and years of pictures.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, we should have backed up this data. But we didn’t and that’s the unfortunate fact. Lesson learned. But a learned lesson doesn’t bring back thousands of photos and other data.<\/p>\n
I came back home on Sunday night to discover that the window had been opened by the fire escape and that all of our things had been rifled through.\u00c2\u00a0 I rushed immediately to the hiding place where her engagement ring was hidden (she didn’t take it out of town with her) and was relived to find it where I left it. What was missing was what, apparently, one person could carry out. The burglar took a canvas tote bag of mine that had my iPod in it and packed into it the rest of the goods that were stolen: a Playstation 3, a Wii, their controllers, and my fiancee’s Mac PowerBook laptop.<\/p>\n
They are just things, things that can be replaced. However, on the computer are things that cannot be replaced with any amount of money. These are the things we want back more than anything else. It could have been a lot worse. There were a lot of our belongings that could have been taken that weren’t. Cameras, a TV, stereo, etc. I count us fairly lucky all in all, but we should not take this lying down.<\/p>\n
Why should you want to help? I’m not sure. Maybe you want to help us out of the goodness of your heart. Maybe you want to see if this social experiment can work. Maybe you want a reward. Maybe we stop this from happening to our neighborhood.\u00c2\u00a0 For whatever reason, I hope you can help.<\/p>\n
Let’s get this message in front of anyone you know who lives in Brooklyn or the surrounding areas. The computer could have made its way to Queens or Manhattan, so let’s just get people to see this.<\/p>\n
Here’s what we’re looking for: Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 Aluminium with a 15″ screen and a 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 processor<\/a>. The serial number is V73394FSNRZ<\/strong> It’s the September 16, 2003 version. It’s got some cosmetic damage on the outside corners, small dents and scratches. The screen has some lighter-colored splotchyness to it. There are probably around 10-15 light splotches on the screen. The power adapter was not taken but if there is one with it it probably has to be jiggled and finessed to keep the green charging light activated. The battery life is abysmal. It may be being carried in a canvas tote bag with WNYC printed on it in red<\/a>. If it is on, the desktop background will have a comical picture of a woman wearing a head-scarf with various funny things floating in the sky behind her tiled on the screen.<\/p>\n There are so many people online that I think we have a good chance of getting this message in front of someone who has the chance of coming into contact with this computer. I believe that the thief intends to sell the computer to the first person that can be found who wants to buy it at a cut-rate. Perhaps it’s already been sold. Perhaps someone on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or some other network already has the computer in their possession. Perhaps someone online will see the computer for sale on some street corner. We have a lot of eyes and ears and typing fingers. Maybe we can retrieve this special information. If it can return a camera to its owner<\/a>, maybe it can return information and photos to their owner as well.<\/p>\n If you have this computer and have come into ownership by any means whatsoever, I will be happy to arrange to meet you and get it back, no questions asked. Please, let your conscience get the better of you.<\/p>\n Please email me at hewins@gmail.com<\/a> if you have any information leading to the recovery of the data on this computer or the computer itself.<\/p>\n Thanks, and let’s see if we can do this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I need your help as I propose to launch the first social media manhunt. \u00c2\u00a0Someone broke into the apartment I share with my fianc\u00c3\u00a9e, in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 They stole electronics mostly, including the laptop containing her unfinished master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thesis and years and years of pictures.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, we should have … Continue reading Can you help us find the irreplaceable?<\/span>