How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craigslist

Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by sahaskatta on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:31PM (#5505465)

I'm pretty sure it's real. I went to high school and college with Jeff Hu. He shared the links to this on Facebook. Definitely happened. There's the whole reddit thread too: http://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/1ajifl/someone_...

I'm not sure he or anyone else had anything to gain out of lying about this. I had a Canon T2i for quite sometime and it definitely does embed the camera's serial into each captured image.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by lucb1e on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:46PM (#5505505)

Downvoted for unconstructive criticism without arguments.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by Sujan on Sunday April 07, 2013 @07:01AM (#5506784)

You're right, I was too lazy to type it out. Should have just not posted at all then.

My reasoning was that it sounded too clean. Either it is fake, and just the written for linkbait (there were enough successful similar articles online to justify someone trying that) or the x-th rewrite of a story.

As another reply to my post here pointed out it orriginated on Reddit, so probably the second thing and I was wrong. Sorry.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by alenart on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:15PM (#5505425)

How so? The only thing I'm skeptical about is I would imagine his local PD would be way busy to go on a petty theft bust but other than that it sounds legit.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by crusso on Sunday April 07, 2013 @01:40PM (#5507931)

would be way busy to go on a petty theft bust

Please... this was probably the only real crime solving these guys did all week.

I'm going to leave myself open to the "citation needed" charge by generalizing here, but doesn't most police activity involve pointless traffic stops, traffic direction, prosecution of victimless vice crimes, domestic disturbance calls, and paperwork?

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by fsckin on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:26PM (#5505455)

Depending on the lens, it could be grand theft.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by alenart on Saturday April 06, 2013 @08:33PM (#5505616)

Good point, GT is above what amount in California? Unless it's really high, it's really easy for a lens to fall in that GT category.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by fsckin on Saturday April 06, 2013 @10:30PM (#5505875)

Wikipedia says $400.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by justin66 on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:29PM (#5505461)

I assume their easy cooperation indicates the guy is living in a reasonably affluent suburb where the police are both well-equipped and not very busy.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by andreyf on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:40PM (#5505490)

They weren't too busy because the author did all the work for them: all they had to do was walk half a block and arrest a guy.

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Re:How I Busted a Thief Who Tried to Sell My Camera on Craig... by aaron695 on Saturday April 06, 2013 @07:22PM (#5505444)

Funny I think so to.

I've heard to much of the story before, it seems like they have mashed a few of the classics together to create it.

Edit: Or maybe I just read the original story on Reddit.

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