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danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 01, 2008, 10:07:19 am ---
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on August 01, 2008, 09:50:02 am ---edit: oh, and if the police went as far as to trace the ISP of the wii, all they will find is the sucker who bought it from cash converters...

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While probably true, receiving stolen property, even without knowledge of it being stolen, is a crime here.  The Police would use that to get the person to reveal where they bought the Wii.  The Wii then gets taken back to the pawn shop.  The pawn shop, by law, has records of who sold them everything in the place.  The Police use the pawn shop's records to find the thief.  The pawn shops and cops are so practiced in this that it doesn't take long at all.

Of course, I seriously doubt you'd ever get the ISP info from Nintendo nor the user info for that specific IP from the ISP.  Not without a lawsuit that costs way more than the Wii ever would.

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pawn shops make a good part of their money from the proceeds of crime. i seriously doubt the trail will go any further than the pawn shop. i once met a guy who was riding MY bike that was stolen some months before. i knew he didnt steal it. where did he get it? cash converters. it was second hand when i had it so i didnt have any proper identifying records so i couldnt go any further.

burglary is big business. big business is efficient business. the stuff needs to be fenced with a reasonable chance of getting away with it. youll find most of the stuff gets sold to some middleman before it gets sold to the general public. sure, the occasional meth head is going to get busted because he was too desperate to fence it properly and went to a pawnbroker instead...

having said that, my father had a stroke of luck once. he was a caretaker at a highschool. one time, all the tools in the workshop were knocked off. cops told dad to check out all the local pawnshops. first one he checked, there it all was!

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: Peale on August 01, 2008, 03:13:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on August 01, 2008, 02:34:10 pm ---Gee listen to you.  All your SNES pads....Get a life.

Maybe this act of theft has some merit.  Maybe you will now spend your life doing something OUTSIDE rather than sitting in front of the TV with your SNES.

I showed this thread to a mate of mine and he couldn't believe how funny it was.

:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

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I'm going to say this *once.*  Knock off your inflammatory attitude.  So many of your posts reflect this one.  This guy had someone break into his house.  Other than the loss, it's a total feeling of violation.   If you disagree, you can take a short vacation to think things over.

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Most of you have seen my previous posts, concerning the robbery of one of our members.  These posts have been made with mockery of the affair, which to some of you seem over the top or inappropriate.  Was these posts to incite a troll like behaviour?  No.

I'm sure you all will have your opinion, one way or another.  I too have been a victim of several robberies but a much more larger scale than some console games.  I won't go into specifics, but I found his loss to be trivial as most of his items will be replaced.  My friend I spoke of has been robbed 5 times in three months.

There is no excuse for mocking the unfortunate, but if you open yourself up on a forum of different views, you should expect a different reaction to those more experienced in loss. That doesn't give anyone an excuse to be negative of the affair, or should it be enough to condemn him for his views.

I have learned not to put too much value on personal property.  When your time come to an end, you cannot take it with you.  That might not be whats on everyones mind right now, especially in this recent absence of judgment in our fellow man.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on August 01, 2008, 08:45:39 pm ---pawn shops make a good part of their money from the proceeds of crime. i seriously doubt the trail will go any further than the pawn shop.

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Could be different in Australia.  Here, if they do not cooperate with the Police, they lose their license.  They lose it quickly.  The laws are very specific regarding pawn shops.

hypernova:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on August 02, 2008, 06:04:29 am ---
--- Quote from: Peale on August 01, 2008, 03:13:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on August 01, 2008, 02:34:10 pm ---Gee listen to you.  All your SNES pads....Get a life.

Maybe this act of theft has some merit.  Maybe you will now spend your life doing something OUTSIDE rather than sitting in front of the TV with your SNES.

I showed this thread to a mate of mine and he couldn't believe how funny it was.

:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

--- End quote ---

I'm going to say this *once.*  Knock off your inflammatory attitude.  So many of your posts reflect this one.  This guy had someone break into his house.  Other than the loss, it's a total feeling of violation.   If you disagree, you can take a short vacation to think things over.

--- End quote ---

Most of you have seen my previous posts, concerning the robbery of one of our members.  These posts have been made with mockery of the affair, which to some of you seem over the top or inappropriate.  Was these posts to incite a troll like behaviour?  No.

I'm sure you all will have your opinion, one way or another.  I too have been a victim of several robberies but a much more larger scale than some console games.  I won't go into specifics, but I found his loss to be trivial as most of his items will be replaced.  My friend I spoke of has been robbed 5 times in three months.

There is no excuse for mocking the unfortunate, but if you open yourself up on a forum of different views, you should expect a different reaction to those more experienced in loss. That doesn't give anyone an excuse to be negative of the affair, or should it be enough to condemn him for his views.

I have learned not to put too much value on personal property.  When your time come to an end, you cannot take it with you.  That might not be whats on everyones mind right now, especially in this recent absence of judgment in our fellow man.

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Yet, you sure do like to rationalize and justify your option to be a dick, don't you?

I could be a dick, just like you, and mock points of your post, and trivialize the thing.  But I won't.

I was never truly worried about the items themselves.  But, yes, it pisses me off.  I've just been robbed.  The fact that someone was in here, cool and methodically taking my stuff that I worked for and earned is what irks me.  Principle.  Let's not forget the criminal's attempt to find personal information that could screw me far worse for years to come.

You can't possibly tell me the multiple times you've been robbed that you just shrugged it off and said "it's only stuff."  I've had a few lighter experiences in getting stolen from, but generally only a few hundred dollars worth.

Now we have problems much larger than these things.  Our youngest daughter's been acting weird the last two weeks.  New thread on that to come. 

It's been a ---smurfy--- week.

hypernova:

--- Quote ---Maybe this act of theft has some merit.  Maybe you will now spend your life doing something OUTSIDE rather than sitting in front of the TV with your SNES.
--- End quote ---

By the way...why do you assume I spend all day in front of a TV?  That is a rather humorous assumption on your part.  Do you enjoy generalizing?

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