They don't give a shit about your stolen items, and 9/10 times it's a complete waste to even contact them over "petty theft", regardless of how valuable the item/s are to you.

When I was in college, my apartment got broken into. The cop that came when I called was less than helpful. Some highlights:

• He immediately argued with me that the crowbar marks on the door frame must have been there before.
• I told him about the TV that was stolen and he bragged that he had two TVs that were larger than that.
• He tried to bust me for weed when he saw my hookah. I had to explain to him that it was in fact not a bong and was only used for tobacco.
• He mentioned that if it were him robbing me, he would have stolen the microwave instead.
• As he was leaving, he told me that they wouldn't be able to catch whoever did it, so they weren't going to look.

Just claim your a company and they will magically give a shit about $1 of missing junk

In the UK its not a "complete waste to even contact the police" because you need a crime number from them to claim on insurance.

I can and would claim home insurance for this and just buy a new one. It would only cost me time but my dumb ass has a lot of that

True, but I would have been filled with regret if I never even tried the official way of recovering it :(

is trying to get you to drop the issue so they don’t have more paperwork.

I had to visit 3 police stations before they agreed to take my case

even not a specific company: mention to all of them that it was stolen while they had a pretty limited group of people at the house

you might think it’s a case of “how would they know who there’s no point”, but people who steal things like this likely didn’t do it just once… it is, or will become a pattern of behaviour. if nobody reports it, they have no chance of identifying a pattern of behaviour to narrow down the culprit… if a company gets 2 or 3 reports of stolen items from houses that an individual employee is working at, it becomes pretty clear who the culprit could be

you even have pretty good evidence that it was stolen rather than lost: the fact that it came online for a period means someone has it and has connected it to a network and then not reported it lost

do make it clear though that you’re not insinuating that their company specifically is to blame; you just want them to know in case they have future problems. you don’t want them getting defensive, because that’s not productive for anyone

While they belong to Urban Company, they were called as external agents for this particular job by my renter.

It's not mine. Just a random image which is like my emotional state at the time of the event.

Its a dishonest clickbait tactic given most people assume the story would end with "i got it back smashed up".

I was let down by the time I completed reading but not enough to downvote.

I am extremely grateful of Steam Cloud. I was playing Celeste and I saw that my progress is saved.

Also, I thankfully didnt use my personal IDs on the device. So the thieves couldn't use it for any other purpose.

My brother had a moment like that as a kid. He had a phone and put it in a locker when he went to gym (kids stuff, you know. Get them active, get them tired) and… the locker wasn’t locked. Plus having the pin enabled was annoying so he didn’t have that either. Yep. He learned that lesson…

In highschool I had a gameboy color in my backpack with pokemon tcg in it.

I went to the bathroom and came back. It was no longer in my backpack after that. Thanks sophomore year physics class.

Thanks for the egg. It's eggcelent.

stop! you're scaring the americans with that unwashed egg!

Plot twist, it was the mother.

I'm pretty sure about it. I put the Deck in the bag, put the bag in the house and leave. After I come back, it's gone. There was no one else other than the workers.

The only country I'd trust paid help in is Japan. Anywhere else and it is very likely a considerable portion are either thieves or one unlocked door away from thievery. Doesn't matter if it's in my home or in their shop(like for a car).

I work a labor job and had three ladders stolen from me on a single project. As I was a contractor at the time it came out of my pocket. There was actually a fourth attempt when I found mine with painter's tape over where I wrote my name.

You should expect it. A huge % of people are shitbags just waiting for their chance. I've found and returned 3 wallets in my life and every time when I mentioned it to someone else they were in total disbelief that I didn't just steal the person's money and calling me an idiot for it. These were people I would have thought were trustworthy otherwise.

The deductible is probably more than the SD is worth.

This is actually a terrific idea. Unfortunately there is a high probability that the workers will use their mobile data to access the form. But I'm thinking how it might be possible to set this up in a believable manner. These workers from the lower lower middle class section of society and they don't understand forms. Thanks for the suggestion.

Hi there, I can see that the thief is currently using the device. Will it be possible to send a link via my friend saying "Yo bro, check this meme. This girl is crazzyyyy <link>" which, once clicked, gets the GPS coordinate?

For example, it's possible via browser to get the location of a device. Can the same thing be done on Linux? I can create a simple nginx webserver on my spare server but unsure about how to proceed.

I, along with the rest of my family, are probably too trusting of people. At my old place, i used to leave stuff like this all the time and I never even thought that it could get stolen.

I wish I learnt this lesson earlier but in a different manner. 😔

How old are your kids? Is it possible one of their friends could have stolen it when they were inside your home? Speaking from experience, kids don't always have the best judgment regarding who they hang out with.

Not to make light of your situation, but I cannot count the number of times I have put something in a "very secure location" then been unable to locate said item for months.

Can you give me a little more detail on this? How to enable it and does it work on devices without GPS?

All the times I checked, there isn't any hardware yet that would be worth it. Chipolo sounded promising, but the reviews really disagree. I wish Samsung adopted Google's network. Their trackers are fantastic and offer features no other company does.

Yes, i contacted valve. They marked the device as stolen. The Valve employee said that it won't be applicable for future warranty attempts. I'm not sure what else is possible.

I hope when the thief connects his account to the device, it get banned or something.

Bro left out the most important part (i know you are sad OP, its okay) or the image is unrelated?

They didn't.

Hug it again for my sake :(

Read the story. They didn't get it back.