A Pizza Box for Your Laptop

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 4, 2005 @03:26AM from the just-a-little-bit-late dept.

Dark Twonky writes "Human Beans is selling the perfect gift for the geek who has everything. It's the PowerPizza, a pizza box for transporting your precious laptop in. From the web site: Desirable laptops are desirable to thieves too. Disguise your laptop with a PowerPizza and reduce the risk of getting it nicked."

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Unless... by tony_ratboy · 2005-01-04 03:27 · Score: 5, Funny

The thief is hungry.
this'll work by unformed · 2005-01-04 03:28 · Score: 3, Funny

until some stoned kid walks by your car and decides he wants some pizza ....

he'll take it home and be pissed off he only got a laptop.
1. Re:this'll work by Spy+der+Mann · 2005-01-04 04:31 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  he'll take it home and be pissed off he only got a laptop.
  
  Yeah, but you're in trouble when he realizes a simple fact:
  
  1 laptop = LOTS of pizzas!!!
  
  So he starts thinking of ways to enjoy this "free prize":
  
  a) He sells it and gets an extra money for pizzas
  b) He steals your passwords, credit card numbers, and orders a pizza with your account (keep the change, you filthy animal). Of course he gets in trouble because he ordered the pizza with "extra anchovies".
  c) He calls you and asks for a reward for "finding a laptop that some guy dropped"
  d) He calls you and asks for a delicious quantity of money "if you want to keep your data alive and healthy. And don't call the cops"
  e) b) and c)
  f) b) and d)
  g) He backs up your porn folder and sets up a paid website using your credit card, to earn more money.
  h) He backs up all your data and starts blackmailing you when he finds out that besides a porn folder, you also have online dates, AND you're married.
  i) He finds out that you're involved in some illegal activity, and he asks for the double. In case you want to kill him, he published all this data in his personal internet harddrive, and sets up a script to publish all of it on his blog if he doesn't cancel it in 14 days.
  j) Instead he blackmails your g/f and asks her to pose naked for him, or else he'll tell your wife. THEN he uses your credit card to setup a website, giving away the video of your g/f AND publishing your name (just because he felt like it!).
  k) He gives the laptop (with wireless internet) to a hacker friend of his, and do all kinds of nasty illegal stuff.
  l) Among the nasty illegal stuff, he defaces the PowerPizza website, mentioning how they made money with the laptop they stole thinking it was a pizza.
  m) He writes all these experiences in his blog and the Hollywood guys buy him the script for "Home alone 4: Pizza Powered".
  n) All of the above. The possibilities are endless!
  
  Lesson: DON'T use the powerpizza box. It's not worth it.
Domino's by AtariAmarok · 2005-01-04 03:29 · Score: 3, Funny

If your pizza box has a Domino's logo, there is no chance that anyone would steal it to get the contents, either.

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Re:Back Pack by StevenHenderson · 2005-01-04 03:30 · Score: 3, Funny

I carry mine in a non-descript back pack rather than an obvious laptop case that has DELL written all over it.
Or you could leave it in the DELL box. That would keep any informed thieves away. :)
Re:accidents by frankthechicken · 2005-01-04 03:31 · Score: 4, Funny

Never going to happen around here.

Those pizza boxes get double/triple/quadruple checked in case there is the slightest remnant of cheese left before they are reluctantly chucked into the gaping bin.

And besides who's going to throw away a significantly heavier than usual box without checking inside?
This reminds me.... by AtariAmarok · 2005-01-04 03:36 · Score: 5, Funny

This reminds me of back in the day when I delivered pizza for college money. To prevent hungry college students from stealing the pizza, I disguised them in "Packard Bell" computer boxes; that way no-one ever bothered me!

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1. Re:This reminds me.... by mekkab · 2005-01-04 04:29 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  A friend of mine had a Pack Bell in college (poor soul). He left the box in his car. IN the morning someone had broken into his car and put their Pac Bell in the empty box.
  
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Re:Exactly by Profane+MuthaFucka · 2005-01-04 04:26 · Score: 5, Funny

I need to patent a DOGSHIT box that you put your laptop in. Nobody will want that.

There is some prior art. During the cold war, spies would put materials exchanged at drop points inside of dead animals. The US imported their own dead rats from America, because apparently dead communist rats couldn't be trusted with the secrets of the free world.

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Re:Exactly by Deinhard · 2005-01-04 04:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Sorry...it's already been done. They're called Dell Computers.

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Don't pizzas get stolen? by wcrowe · 2005-01-04 04:47 · Score: 3, Funny

Especially on a college campus?

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Re:Back Pack by Twinkle · 2005-01-04 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

I keep my ThinkPad in a Dell bag for this very reason :)
Label it as something nobody wants by El+Puerco+Loco · 2005-01-04 05:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Maybe "Infectious Medical Waste" or "Pauly Shore Movie Collection". People like pizza.
Re:Exactly by Bertie · 2005-01-04 06:46 · Score: 4, Funny

Funny you should say that - Edinburgh's the only place I've ever witnessed a pizza theft. I was walking across the Meadows with two friends having had a few ales, my mate was carrying a pizza home, and some scamp just whipped it out of his hands and legged it. Mugged for a pizza. It'd drive a man to write to the Daily Mail, it really would.