32 Replies to “Somewhere In Vancouver”

  3. In a day and age of near total surveillance, distinctive self inflicted body modifications are the act of a masochist who wants to stand out to the watchful eye of nanny state….then again this sub human has made it apparent just where his IQ lies…somewhere between a welsh carrot and a kumquat.

  6. The “GENIUS PATROL” is on full alert.
    Only in Vancouver you say!?
    If one is going to steal a computer it helps to find out how it works!!
    A poster boy for thieves everywhere.
    Can you spell ‘computer TERMINAL STUPIDITY’?
    Cheers

  7. That photo shows just enough that if someone was quickly passing by my office they’d think I was looking at some sort of gay porn or something.
    Thanks Kate! :p

  8. ratfuc said:”WLMR, don’t demean the Welsh carrot,nor the noble kumquat for that matter.”
    Sorry….at least these vegetables have more self respect than to “ink” their skins and hope to remain anonymous.

  9. As the Boing Boing comment noted, it’s quite possible that this person is not the thief, but the sucker who the thief sold the laptop to, who may have no idea at all that his purchase is stolen property (if the thief sold it at a price high enough to be plausible for normal used goods, for instance, with a plausible story).
    And besides, Mackenzie, he doesn’t have any tattoos visible that a shirt wouldn’t hide.

  11. Careful on the skin art comments. I have a few tats from my army days that I am actually quite proud of. Tattoos do not make a person a criminal.

  12. In Meadow Lake a few years back some thieves broke into a house and acquired a few items, and while they were there took pictures of each other with the homeowner’s camera, but left the camera behind. Several months later, when the roll was full, the homeowner had the pictures developed. He passed the pictures of the perps onto the RCMP who used them to good affect in detaining said perps. Life in the village goes on.

  13. In Meadow Lake a few years back some thieves broke into a house and acquired a few items, and while they were there took pictures of each other with the homeowner’s camera, but left the camera behind. Several months later, when the roll was full, the homeowner had the pictures developed. He passed the pictures of the perps onto the RCMP who used them to good effect in detaining said perps. Life in the village goes on.

  14. A very close friend of mine was tied up and pistol whipped along with his staff in a mid day armed robbery by 5 masked Jamaicans a few years ago in Etobicoke.
    They stole video equipment and kicked and stomped my friend bloody, as he lay hogtied on the floor with a gun to his head.
    One of the stolen items was a laptop computer that would broadcast it’s address if it was started again after being stolen.
    Approximately a month later, the computer broadcast back to my fiends office it’s new location.
    My friend notified the police of the exact address of where his computer was,(Gubmint housing on Oxford St) the cops told him the perps will just say they found it.
    The Toronto police never pursued the lead.
    Buddy lives in Muskoka now.

  16. I know this guy. It is Nick Tortelli,Carla’s ex-husband,from that little bar where everyone knows your name. Haha,Nick,you’re going down again.

  17. Its Jason Cherniak looking for some street cred as he muscles his way into Stephane Dion’s inner circle.

  18. Being a resident of a city bordering on Vancouver, allow me to state that, even if this person is found to have been the thief, nothing, absolutely nothing, will happen to him. Vancouver…the city of “nuclear free zones” and also the city of NO consequences….Once you have achieved your fiftieth serious criminal conviction, our judges here apparently come to the conclusion that previous jail sentences hadn’t worked, and they sentence these idiots to *nothing*.
    Morons.
    Apparently the issues of “protection of the public” and “deterrrence” have fallen off the judges’ radar…

  19. Being a “near Vancouver resident” I should also mention this as a indictment of how we have declined as a “civil society”.
    I live in a relatively affluent neighbourhood. My house, if listed today, would sell for something in the range of $800K to $900K. Neighbouring us is a 2000 acre forest (called by us as the Watershed). The reason I purchased the property was the proximity to the Watershed.
    For a number of years, we dealt with the odd incursion of raccoons, skunks, coyotes and the odd bear…no problem…
    NOW…we have crack heads, aka “homeless persons” camping out in the forest…and when it gets dark…they come into my hitherto safe neighbourhood, and do their best to rip me off.
    My response…motion detectors attached to lights and alarms on the perimeter of my property. The “mother of all alarm systems” installed in my house. Security bars on vulnerable points of egress into my house.
    This PISSES ME OFF…
    Oh, and by the way, my most recent security decision….my NEW best friends are Mr. Smith & Mr. Wesson….
    So much for gun control…if my taxes are not going to do the job for me (obviously), then I’ll do it myself, thanks…
    So much for gun control in Canada…

  20. Bruce,gun control is very important. First,make sure you are well-balanced and not likely to be jarred. Second and most important,do not aim your gun at anything or anyone that you do not want to shoot. Third,slowly squeeze trigger, then smile. Repeat as necessary.

  21. “So much for gun control in Canada…”
    [Posted by: Bruce at September 25, 2007 9:25 PM ]
    Gun Control means being able to hit your target.
    Really, really good Gun Control means three rounds downrange, all holes touching. 😉

  22. Heh wallyj…you made me laugh.
    Reminds me of a sign I saw on a ranch in Alberta, which stated that “Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again, anyone miraculously surviving repeated shootings will be prosecuted”.
    And..to quote Al Capone: “You get a lot further in life with a smile and a gun than you do with a smile alone”.
    Speaking for myself, at least, its a damned shame it has come to this…

  23. I have a new MacBook. well, I paid for it from a store is what I want ya’ll to know firstly..
    Here is some cheap insurance for any other Mac types out there, http://www.bak2u.com/verey/php
    This program has your computer taking photos of you, sending it to your email (or phone ect..) and noting the location of your internet connection… without telling the “new owner” this is being done.
    On the other hand, this cannot help if your local police force is being buried by investigaing small thefts and a non performing liberal judiciary.
    and now back to Bruce and his “new friends” solution…
    I’m curious to know if a jury in Canada has ever found someone “not guilty” of an obvious crime after taking this sort of thing into their own hands, I mean outside of Henry Morgentaler’s 3 acquittals in Quebec.
    I know for me at least, I’d find it next to impossible to convict someone of a crime commited against an aggressor such as what Bruce seems to be in fear of.

  26. This guy was trying to sell a black MacBook for $800 on Kijiji last week. I reported him within 1 hour of his posting. He said in his ad that he was from Van, but his ads were not running there, but in Calgary and Edmonton.
    I emailed him, and he sent me his chat address. We chatted, and I said I’d have someone come by with the $ and pick it up within the hour. He said he would only ship it. I asked him how I could verify the item, and he said he’d sell it for half down, and half when I got it.
    I sent all of the info to Kijiji, and they took down his auction, and barred him.
    HIS PICTURE WAS ON HIS CHAT! The same one as this one. I figured nobody would be that dumb, and that it was fake.
    Guess I was wrong. Wonder if you can track someone down by their chat address?

  27. Just heard a promo for the 11:00 news – this guy’s come forward – says he bought it from “a friend”. Should be no problem identifying who the friend is, wot?

  28. Kingstonlad is correct about tattoos; they are now quite respectable and I estimate that about 1/3 of my younger patients have them. This sudden popularity of tattoos does, however, make it difficult to use the time honored teeth to tattoo ratio which, if less than 1, is a good indication that ones patient is a scumbag.
    Based on my observations of thousands of tattoos over the years, the photos posted by the person who “bought the computer from a friend” indicate significant psychopathology. His tattoo is not something one can blame on accidentally staggering into a tattoo parlor while inebriated as it involved a substantial investment in time and money. The best bad tattoo I’ve seen on a patient was one of a skull with two crossed syringes below and “born to lose” below that. Needless to say, the proud owner of this tattoo was not someone you’d want in your neighborhood.
    I’ve seen some excellent tattoos over the years and most people are very willing to explain in detail why they got their tattoo(s). For those who are interested in body art, I highly recommend http://vanishingtattoo.com/ which is a huge repository of current tattoo art as well as traditional body art around the world.

  29. “Tattoos do not make a person a criminal.”
    But they do make a person look not too bright.
    The guy in the picture looks like George Clooney after being interviewed by Bill O’Reilly.

  30. You all heard about the young fellow who went in the doctor’s office for a physical. The old doctor, who was out of touch with style, was astonished to find the words “SWAN” tattooed on the patient’s zoo-zoo.
    The doc asked the patient to sit for a moment while he went over his assistant’s office. He asked the 30 year old and shapely blond to go over and check the guy’s tatoo out, just to get her opinion on the matter.
    Moments later she returned, informing the old doc that tatto did not display “Sask,” and that the words were indeed, “Saskatoon Saskatchewan.”

  32. Tattoos like everything else can be carried to extremes. Kind of like those who have ears pierced and then others who set off airport metal detectors. I’ve seen a 65 year old lady get one from her grandson, the artist. It was a nice small ankle flower but the kid did get a rap on the head for complaining how hard it was to work on old wrinkled skin! (Some people never learn)
    As far as the stolen laptop goes, is this not still stolen property and returnable to the owner? Can the posessor of said stolen property not be liable to be charged for being in posession of stolen property?

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