Tag: Computer thief

It’s everyone’s worst nightmare – a stolen backpack. Gone are a wallet, credit cards, a cherished journal, and a laptop with all its data and untold hours worth of work.

That’s just what happened to a professor in Umea, Sweden, when he briefly left his pack unattended for a few minutes in what he thought was a safe place. But in the end, the whole experience left the man with a feeling of “hope for humanity.” According to an article in The Local, the man, who asked not to be named, explained that he had just returned from the hospital when he left the pack behind a door in a stairwell while he went into the laundry room of his apartment building. When he came back a few minutes later, the pack was gone. He said he was most chagrined by the loss of a calendar/journal. “It is my life,” he said. “I have documented everything in it that has happened in the last 10 years and beyond.” He reported the theft to police and set about dealing with the situation, blocking his credit cards, and so on. Then the unexpected happened. He went back downstairs to find his backpack where he had left it. “The backpack was there again. With all the papers, calendar, and credit cards. It was just the computer that was missing,” he said. He resigned himself to the loss of the computer and everything that it contained. A week later, he got another surprise. He came home one day to find an envelope waiting for him, with a memory stick that had all his lost data. “Often when people lose their cameras and computers, it is understandably not the gadget itself that is the most important. The content is often irreplaceable,” he said. “This story makes me feel hope for humanity,” he said.