Over the past few years Laptop theft has been a going problem. The numbers do not really say enough about it. The people who steal laptops my be affluent students at a top rated university. LOSS of a laptop can CAUSE personal harm to INDIVIDUALS beyond the money lost.

And then this is the idiot who told a boomerang laptop.
{Story is from 2011}
Look at hits:

The awesome story of the stolen laptop and one very embarrassing video.

.. the 18-year old entrepreneur who gained notoriety when he ... recently had his laptop stolen. Over the weekend, [He] hacked into his computer’s hard drive remotely and found an embarrassing video of the culprit.

He decided to post the video on YouTube, titling it, “Don’t steal computers belonging to people who know how to use computers.”

The video was then submitted to Reddit in a post titled, “This idiot stole somebody’s laptop, and the OWNER was able to remotely REGAIN access to it and post this video of the perp. I feel that posting here will help to maximize the ***** embarrassment!”


...rest of the story.
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/03/22/the-awesome-story-of-the-stolen-laptop-and-one-very-embarrassing-video/Ohhh... i saw that video before.... ahhahaa..

If you want to be able to track your laptop after it is stole make sure you download prey.. it is free

http://preyproject.com/

heres a true story of someone who found their laptop using prey
http://expertvagabond.com/tracking-stolen-laptop/