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Back in June/July I went down to civilization for a little LAN war. When I woke up me and my friend's computers were gone, and two of our team of LAN warriors (A married couple that were moving out of state) were missing, but their computers were still there....

To make a long story short, I am now in posession of a DELL computer (400mhz, 256ram, 40gigdrive), that's really fragging up all of the time. My self built creature (1300mhz, 1000ram, x2 80gig drives) is apparently in the possession of the DELL's owner. Now since the local police see this as a computer is a computer, they won't do anything, I am finding this rather bad.

The Yosemite Bear wrote:To make a long story short, I am now in posession of a DELL computer (400mhz, 256ram, 40gigdrive), that's really fragging up all of the time. My self built creature (1300mhz, 1000ram, x2 80gig drives) is apparently in the possession of the DELL's owner. Now since the local police see this as a computer is a computer, they won't do anything, I am finding this rather bad.

Look it up in the California penal code and see if anything applies. If something does, take it to the police department and shove it under their noses. If nothing does, take the bastards to court for cheating you out of $1000+ of property.

I finding the whole experience rather surrieal, in the kind of "Changeling Birth" folklore kind of nightmare. I think the big problem with the police is that while I parted together my computer using deal at cons for about what they paid for their DELL, mine was a much better system, and the fact that they are now living in Texas, with my cmoputer, makes for a difficult extradition....

Not to mention the fact that I have thier computer...

Send it back to them in little tiny pieces until you have secured your machine's safe return. That might help move things along.

You might be able to sue them in small claims court. But like you said, it would be hard to get them there.

Do you still have contact with these people? What a bunch of a-holes.
Did they leave behind any, uh, personal info of use?

Regardless of whether or not they left their computer, the fact that they took yours without consent is still theft and you should take legal action.

i'd take them to task about it pronto. and i'd also not stop trying to get the machine back until they either give up and give it back to you or something else happens.


btw, no one wants to steal my LAN computer, it looks like shit, but runs great, it's also getting an upgrade to an athlonxp 2400+ (or higher).