| The police were not much interested until I tracked the guy to his profile on migente.com (since deleted) where he was dumb enough to post his photo and a description of his job - probably using my laptop to do it! For good measure, I spoke to someone at migente.com who was great and promised to hang onto all of this guy’s records ready for the police - all they needed was to subpoena and they could have had it all.
The police finally seemed a bit more interested once I had the photo (the train crew manifests made it really easy for them to ID him). Unfortunately I had got fed up with waiting by then and told them I would write a press release to all the local newspapers, TV, radio etc if they didnt get my laptop back. Well at that point I started to get some real personal service and i had my notebook back within 48hrs.
To be fair, the detective who got it back was a good guy and so were a couple of the uniform cops who I spoke to, they might have got it anyway in the end. Also to be fair to them, it was not the fault of the police that the Amtrak Office of the Inspector General told me to sit tight and leave it with them (the OIG)…. for three days, then came back and said “d’uh this is a police matter”, which i thought it was in the first place! But yeah, in the end the police didnt do too bad. |
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