Burglarized Prius!

HUH??? :blink: :blink: :blink:

 

Some folks will try anything other than being responsible for their own actions.

 

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Please donate?? Also, please donate at least $1.00, since PayPal charges 2.9% + 30 cents per transaction (97.1% minus 30 cents of the donated amount will actually go toward the Burglarized Prius Fund). Thank you for your time.

Wow you have debt. well guess what I think we all do, Be responcible and suck it up and pay your own way.. People that have things handed to them dont take care of it, like they worked to pay for it them selves..
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You have to admit asking for the donation was a little off kilter with all the internet scams going on these days......(remember we dont know you).

We can all feel sorry for you with your loss & being victimized/violated by having your car Burglarized.

**As a reminder never leave anything that looks remotely valuable in plain site or you may find your self in a similar prediciment** ...

bgdrewsif: I too can remember the days of the air cooled vw we would stop and help turn a wrench for a fellow air cooled brother that was broken down on the roadside but we wouldn't pay to fix his car ... <_<

Maybe [you] can better explain the scammy appearence of this post...

 

No frickin' crap!!! I cannot even fathom that if something like what 'supposedly' happened in this story happend to me that I would have the audacity to come here and beg others to pay for my problems...

When I was in a 5 car pile-up in Findlay a few years back I did not go on some VW Beetle website and ask people to pay to fix my banged up beetle since no beetle owner likes to see another beetle in distress...

And we all have problems of our own, many of which are far worse than yours... As someone in the medical field who will be earning FAR FAR FAR more than I ever will as a middle school teacher, I have no sympathy for your cheap-o whiny routine... Im a full-time education major, and if I can make ends meet on practically no money, so can you... so suck it up...

For what it is worth, I just turned my now homeless crackhead brothr onto the streets yesterday after my parents wouldnt take him in... He sold som bad crack to the wrong people recently and now has the drug dealers out looking to kill him (and any members of my family they can find... my parents are under police protection now 24-7 after their Nissan Armada got the windshield shot out yesterday) On top of that, I have another brother in his 20th year in the army in Baghdad right now and other brother who is a cop, plus Im a full time college student and trying to help out my aging and nearly-poor parents as my 60 year old father is trying to make ends meet in a now single income home since my mother got sick and has been waiting 9 months for a disability check that the government is screwing her over on.... SO I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR HOW BAD YOU HAVE IT!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRR
:angry: :angry: :angry: ::done ranting now...::

 

Hm, bgdrewsif, we didn't need to hear your story either, but sorry about your situation too.

 

So, let me see if I understand this complicated story.

pcjr, a.k.a. Peter, posts a link and says "Check this out." It turns out to be a story about somebody who had items such as their laptop computer and their "toiletry bag" stolen from their Prius. Also, just by chance the laptop computer was "really important because of the data on it (my research on AIDS and HIV vaccine design, some of which were unpublished)." Also, by a terrible trajedy this data wasn't backed up.

Then there is the great part about the "African-American male wearing a black coat and black pants, riding a bicycle, who goes by the name of "California" and lives in the Fairfax Hotel." This was pointed out by a "Good Samaritan," pregnant no less, who just happened to see the whole thing, also happened to know "California," and also knew where "California" lived. This "Good Samaritan" didn't bother to anonymously call the police to offer a tip, instead asking the "victim" for $15 and a 20 oz. bottle of Coca-Cola.

The story finally ends up with the "victim" deciding to do a bit of a human psychology experiment, and offer a reward to see if more information would surface, since the police don't seem to want to get involved either. Perhaps they are as scared as the "victim," who states, "Because I fear for my life from retaliation by the burglar or his friends, my identity will be revealed only to donors. Though I doubt the burglar or his friends surf the web, but the San Francisco Public Library does allow anyone to use their computers. However, it is highly unlikely the burglar or his friends have verifiable identities or bank accounts to establish a PayPal account to donate just to uncover my identity or would have a credit card to do the same either." At least we have found out that although "California" won't hesitate to use a gun, this "African-American male" hasn't figured out how to use a computer.

Now, later in day we find out additional information. The "victim" is actually the OP, who mislead everybody with the original post. It turns out also that Peter routinely carries a "toiletry bag" in his car, along with that laptop computer with irreplaceable data for a vaccine for AIDS. Peter, although being on an intern's salary with loans still needing to be paid off, has operated a "flow cytometer" with a Mac and has come up with this unpublished breakthrough on a vaccine that people have been working on for decades. In addition, although his "toiletry bag," which the thief "California," the "African-American male" don't forget, mistook for a purse was in the front passenger seat, "California" in his evil thief's mind decided to break the rear passenger window instead in order to grab the purse. Apparently upon gaining entry to the car "California" decided to check out the hatchback, where the aforementioned irreplacible portable computer was. All the while being watched by the "Good Samaritan."

Now, of course, after hearing this story I'm sure everybody would love to help Peter out. But instead of just 50 people sending him money to raise this reward, lets have 5000 people send him $0.01 instead. This will prove his "psychological experiment" that most people would really love to be helpful, it will restore his bruised image of human nature, and additionally Paypal will have a windfall profit of over $1500, which they may or may not donate to Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières).

The only reason people would refrain from such generosity is that of course Peter, the "victim," would then have 5000 email addresses. Maybe Paypal would let people donate anonymously? Because giving anonymously is really the true spirit of giving.

 

No, I dont want you to be sorry about my 'suituation'... I'm not... I just want to make the point to not be sorry for PCJR, all of us have problems, thats called playing the game of life.. Im not asking for money, neither are my parents and they can baely afford food, but they have not gotten a disablity benefints check yet, so they are going without... They have learned to get by one less without going aorund begging for money... But to come here and try to swindle people out of money for own problems is crap... :angry: If she want money for her car perhaps she should try hitting up some charity so they can laugh her out of their offices... That is the point I was trying to make... Shes worried about a stolen laptop and a broken window when there are folks out there with FAR worse problems... I just hope she larns a leson from this...

A. Dont go to shady ghetto neighborhoods
B. Dont leave your valuable in your car... se should have went home and dropped off the laptop first... I have NEVER left my laptop or other electronics in my car... and I have a full alarm system on my Beetle
C. Why would you supposedly have such vital aids research not backed up elsewhere, that sounds fishy too... and would some ghetto thug be able to do anyting with it? Probally not... The whole story makes little sense...

 

Maybe I forgot to add one final quote from Peter.

"Please donate. Also, please donate at least $1.00, since PayPal charges 2.9% + 30 cents per transaction (97.1% minus 30 cents of the donated amount will actually go toward the Burglarized Prius Fund). Thank you for your time."

You see, if you donate directly to Doctors Without Borders, Peter will not be helped, and his bruised image of human nature will be perpetuated. Wouldn't it be better to let Peter, with his business account at Paypal, have the satisfaction of making the $1500 payment to Paypal? That is the result of 5000 people donating exactly $0.01 each.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pcjr @ Mar 28 2006, 08:29 PM) [snapback]231702[/snapback]</div>

Get real Peter...if you are truly an intern I have to assume you have much more intelligence than what this little tale alludes to...when I was writing my dissertation--and whenever I do research--I always(!) backed up--and continue to back up--my valuable research data. Plus I store back ups everywhere...trying to minimize my risk of theft or fire either at home, or work. Have you heard about these nifty new gadgets :blink: you can purchase that can hold 4 G of data and can be carried with you?

I won't even go into discussing leavning something in plain sight...just a enticement... As far as your car insurance deductible...your problem again. Mine's much lower for a reason (having the money to pay for any damage to my car) and my homeowners insurance kicks in for personal property in my vehicle (when I had renter's insurance, same thing).

Anyway, I have to say I don'tlike the whole scam-y nature of your OP and also wonder if the moderators shouldn't just delete this whole thread...

 

This reminds me of Classified Ads which appeared in various newspapers some years back. They read something like "Send $5 to P.O.Box 123...." Unbelievably, many readers actually did send money. No purpose, no organization, no address, no telephone number... and some actually sent money. It's hard to believe.

Somehow I just never expected to see such a scam on PriusChat. **SIGH**

I agree... this thread is way past it's entertainment life... Time to delete it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pcjr @ Mar 27 2006, 08:49 PM) [snapback]231232[/snapback]</div>

To quote the great American poet, Bugs Bunny, "what an ultra-maroon."

What kind of a fool are we being taken for here...an idiot that leaves a PowerBook in a car in the Tenderloin? If it is in fact true, he's an bigger idiot than I thought...Candy sounds like the garden variety crack whore that could have cut him from ear to ear once she was in the car with him. I've seen some pretty good "pillow pregnancies" before as well.

I was thinking of messing with him and donating a penny, but all it takes is a couple million "jokes" like that to give him what he wants.

The long and short of it is...if he's lying, shame on him and I hope he gets jack. If he's not, I hope this serves as an expensive lesson that I hope he takes to heart and learns from it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pcjr @ Mar 28 2006, 11:29 PM) [snapback]231702[/snapback]</div>

Assuming your story is true, I think the burglar went immediately to his drug connection and traded your laptop for a few hits. The drug dealer will know who to sell your laptop to and they will know how to get whatever sensitive personal info that's on it and try to steal your identity or at least try accessing your accounts. Also, I would not be surprised if your house gets hit soon. Consider an alarm or at least a sign that says your place has an alarm.

If you had personal info on the computer, you should consider changing all account #'s you now have, make sure your house is secure, and sign up with a credit reporting agency to monitor your credit history and notify you immediately if any credit is applied for in your name.

 

This is soo funny! I am a doc, who graduated from San Francisco and find her saga to be hilarious. I'm not to worried about the HIV research because this doc is no genious.

First she was ripped off and then scammed by a pregant passerby. Now she wants the public to help her generate a reward. Its just too funny.

 

It is a SCAM. I do not buy the story.

 

I'm curious whether you had the hatch cover stretched out to cover the stolen items? Were any of the stolen items visible before the breakin? Was there any indication that they looked through any of the hidden hatch storage compartments? Any indication they found the hidden drawer in the center console?

I park my Prius in that area at night and I'm just curious how determined these guys are. If they will break into cars with no visible valuables, that's a much bigger threat than just breaking into cars where they see something to take.

I learned my lesson about leaving valuables visible in cars in San Francisco... more than a decade I ago had a bicycle stolen out of my Civic parked in the financial district. They scratched the car pretty good because they couldn't get the hatch open and pulled it out of the passenger doors.

My approach to valuables has always been simply to hide them. Everyone I know who has had a car broken into has had visible valuables. I've not had my car broken into since I started hiding valuables religiously.

 

Wow - while all you folks are foaming at the mouth with your opinions about Peter, I don't know why you're ripping on him so hard. While you may think that he's irresponsible, unintelligent or dishonest, I don't think there's call to be insulting him. As bad as his judgement may seem to be, there's no call to be rude. It's obvious that there are *all* kinds of assumptions being made.

For example - just because he used the word purse doesn't mean he's a she - he was describing what he thought the thief might have confused his toiletry bag for.

FWIW, If I were Peter, I'd probably be posting the annecdote online here or elsewhere, but I'd refrain from asking for handouts towards a reward. Maybe for Peter it's 20/20 hindsight...

Being me, I'll withhold my other sentiments on the matter of the data in question and Peter's future roles as a researcher....

Dave "having a hard life too" Sheremata

 

:lol:

Hey, who cares if he asks for money, anything is worth a shot!

I might even give it a whirl... This would be my add:

"If you could help, one person, right now, achieve all their dreams, wouldn't you do it? A one time $5 donation is all it takes. Haven't you ever wished someone was nice to you for no other reason than to make you happy? Help your way along on the rocky road of life? What goes around, comes around, and you can be part of the the greater good that's giving faith back to humanity! Please, be kind, and send your one time $5 donation to: Mr. E. Squid, 666 Liberal Rd, Houston, TX"

Or something amongst those lines...