500 EURO reward for finding car by finding laptop

Komawi writes "Greetings, On the night of march 11th my car was stolen (Mercedes Benz, I'm realy fond of that car!), but also my laptop with in it a wireless networkcard with the following MAC address: 00:30:BD:9C:BD:B2 Also a mobile phone was stolen, with IMEI number 351083531088913. If anyone has a way to locate these goods and by this I get back my car, a reward of 500 euros will be given! The goods were taken from Alkmaar, The Netherlands somewhere between 2004-03-11 23:00 and 2004-03-12 07:30. May the force be with you!"

Comments

Re:What?

[YetAnotherAnonymousC]

I'm usually the first to bemoan non-news postings, but the fact is that slashdot is also a community (see "Ask Slashdot"). While posting every single theft report doesn't make sense, you have to admit that it would be cool, in this case, if the slashdot community came up with a way to track this auto down using technology, yes?

Re:2004-03-11? He's going to need lots of luck.

[jdonnis]

No, civilized countries write dates either as DDMMYYYY or YYYYMMDD, you don't just juggle the digits around.

Nobody would write time like HH:SS:MM ? Of course not, it would be just as ridiculous as writing a date like YYYYDDMM it doesn't make any sense.

Or you could write dates like most airlines do 01APR04 or in this case 11MAR04..

Foolerisms

[meta-monkey]

I think this is a bit of a twist on the April Foolery. Notice the department for this article: "real-submissions-unedited dept." I'm sure people submit inane "stories" like this all the time, and they're usually promptly deleted. I think somebody actually did submit this story in all sincerity, and the joke is that /. actually published it...

Re:2004-03-11? He's going to need lots of luck.

[mishac]

You realise that not everyone in europe speaks english? 17 April 2004 makes sense in many languages, including french.

Re:2004-03-11? He's going to need lots of luck.

[softwave]

You don't speak dates like this: "Meet me 17 April 2004." It's not natural.
Not in English it isn't, but in most European languages it is:
French, Dutch, Spanish, German, ... (those are just the ones I know.. surely there are more)

Re:2004-03-11? He's going to need lots of luck.

[Half-pint HAL]

Be careful there... round here you get modded down for not talking as if you're from the USA.

(In a recent example, a case about French musicians going after Apple for iPod royalties: someone started going on about the DMCA. I pointed out the poster was being US-centric and that the DMCA didn't apply in this case. That poster was not modded Offtopic, but I was modded Flamebait. Atrocious.)