I had just finished reading "This is not a game" about crowdsourcing crime solving using ARG techniques. It was a decent read. When i heard that something terrible had happened to the threadless tech dept. It seemed like a great way to possibly find the alleged crooks.

Luckily the dudes who remain at threadless were quick on the execution and had already appealed to the community. They are attempting to use the same method that MIT used to find the red balloons (i.e. a tiered reward for reporting info).

Here is some info from threadless: http://www.threadless.com/news/536659/Identify_these_Christm...

Here is photos from scottv's flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottvdp/sets/72157622921219371...