One Laptop per Criminal?

One Laptop per Criminal?

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Thursday, 21. August 2008, 12:10:34

On Wednesday, July 9th, we announced the winners from our "Tell a friend" contest. We received a lot of great submissions, and three talented winners got to choose between one of the following sweet prizes:

A brand new mobile phone
A Nintendo Wii
An XO OLPC, the famous $100 laptop

Long time community member Tamil chose the XO OLPC and he started waiting eagerly for the arrival of his new super cool computer...

And today (Thursday, August 21st) he finally received it, but the parcel was torn apart —and even worse— there was no XO OLPC inside! It had been stolen! What gives!?

During our investigations today we've discovered that the parcel arrived empty and torn in India, so the OLPC has been stolen already before arrival in India.

Don't worry Tamil, we're on the case, and we will replace your stolen laptop! There shall be no such thing as "One Laptop per Criminal".

Detective Aleks on the job!

By aaas, # 21. August 2008, 12:14:01

Does he get a special prize for reaching 100,000 posts, too?

By fiddle63, # 21. August 2008, 12:24:20

empty box - great gift..

By gerranek, # 21. August 2008, 12:31:12

So much potential though - you can put anything you want in it.

By fiddle63, # 21. August 2008, 12:35:48

By coxy, # 21. August 2008, 13:12:39

By aaas, # 21. August 2008, 13:37:55

Okay, it was aaas' cat.

By ehoppe, # 21. August 2008, 13:39:03

Those thieving postal workers. I hope you find them and nice of you to send Tamil another one.

That's Opera in a nutshell - user-friendly to a 150%

By Snapphane, # 21. August 2008, 13:49:45

By Dacotah, # 21. August 2008, 13:55:05

bad luck Tamil!
Hope the thief is caught soon and Tamil gets 1 soon

By higio, # 21. August 2008, 13:58:39

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Tamil chose the XO OLPC

http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/forums/findpost.pl?id=2646168

Originally posted by EspenAO:

Don't worry Tamil, we're on the case, and we will replace your stolen laptop!

Okay.

This is not first time.

I didn't receive Halloween Hunt T-shirt

and EspenAO send me another T-shirt.

Originally posted by higio:

bad luck Tamil!

http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/show.dml/369857

By Tamil, # 21. August 2008, 14:06:26

I hope in my case postal workers will be better

By andrew3105, # 21. August 2008, 14:22:25

By thobi, # 21. August 2008, 14:27:50

oh! That's bad! I wish i could fly and kick that thie(f/ves)'/s face/s. Sorry for confusion. U might not know if there are many of them.

By soledad3, # 21. August 2008, 15:27:45

I've added this on Digg:
http://digg.com/hardware/XO_OLPC_One_Laptop_per_Criminal

By coxy, # 21. August 2008, 15:53:42

By polarbee, # 21. August 2008, 16:45:51

as i expected
the Pirates of the Caribbean
it's not just a movie

By ombolan, # 21. August 2008, 17:07:19

Maybe the box got hungry due to that looooong journey, and finally decided to eat up the laptop!

Don't worry Tamil. Good luck with the next one!

By Rozy27, # 21. August 2008, 17:59:31

No shipping OLPC's in easy to identify boxes from now on!

By tinhoy, # 21. August 2008, 18:03:15

DHL by any chance?

By Furie, # 21. August 2008, 18:09:26

Boy, this is awful! At least the folks at Opera will compensate Tamil for this.

By PeaceDestroyer, # 21. August 2008, 18:24:48

Not always the case unfortunately with some people.. *points at South African Postal Service*

By Cois, # 21. August 2008, 18:33:20

Thats a negative prospect. We mustn't start blaming off authorities after incidents. Afterall, incidents do happen!!

By Rozy27, # 21. August 2008, 18:41:24

you don't know? the laptops are still under construction.
only the parcels are ready.

By kroax, # 21. August 2008, 19:07:39

shucks that is bad, glad u are getting a new one from opera. at cois, hehehehe ja they are pretty bad lol.

By lilfairy, # 21. August 2008, 19:34:56

Darn criminals

Hope you get them, Tamil sure deserves his prize

By ADuda, # 21. August 2008, 19:47:46

By p.mansoor, # 21. August 2008, 20:41:43

Wow...that totally blows ass.

How incredibly messed up.

Next time you should package all prizes with one of those ink bomb things banks use! That way if anyone other than the intended recipient opens it, they get a face full of ink! (or Napalm...whichever.

)

By Nerak, # 21. August 2008, 20:56:10

Who knows how rich you would be by now, if not for the people who always steal your packages

By dduenker, # 21. August 2008, 21:07:07

I find that sprinkling white talc powder in the box helps to keep tampering to a minimum

By link0, # 21. August 2008, 22:20:26

By Nerak, # 21. August 2008, 22:27:49

Upzzz..that was so bad

By Sastro99, # 21. August 2008, 23:31:00

Guess these things can't be helped.. Not to blame the instituition but rather the people that work there.. So hard to find good help these days..

By Cois, # 21. August 2008, 23:38:05

Wow, this sux! Hope you catch the thief soon!

This just proves the user-friendliness of the Opera monkeys

By AleksOD, # 21. August 2008, 23:49:23

Waww..I want tHat happen's 2Me. That's fun.

By yoze, # 21. August 2008, 23:56:09

Congrats Good luck and speeds about your laptop recovery

By khadwar_neang_666, # 22. August 2008, 01:43:25

Gosh! That's gotta be bad luck! I hate to be robbed in the street, I'd certainly hate to receive an opened parcell!

I hope that this situation solves properly!

By eztigma, # 22. August 2008, 02:29:16

Congratulations on the win Tamil, sorry to hear your prize didnt reach you. Thanks to Opera its been replaced. I hope those fools get caught.

By Mobiman, # 22. August 2008, 02:34:22

WTF!!!!

Well... At least, Detective Aleks

solved the case... Now, GET that OPLC out of the cat!!

Seriously, i hope Tamil get his prize. He totally deserve it.

By violetisha, # 22. August 2008, 04:45:08

Originally posted by Tamil:

This is not first time. I didn't receive Halloween Hunt T-shirt and EspenAO send me another T-shirt.

I also didn't receive the goodie bag and T-Shirt from that contest..

By AyushJ, # 22. August 2008, 05:03:32

Originally posted by AyushJ:

I also didn't receive the goodie bag and T-Shirt from that contest..

By Tamil, # 22. August 2008, 05:44:55

Dont worry Tamil.
I will call james bond 007 to help u.

And some Terminator for back up
-- just kidding --

I hope u get the next prize.

By Ambon to, # 22. August 2008, 06:57:11

By soumitram4u, # 22. August 2008, 08:53:09

now that is really a nice story there... oh the stupidity and greed in people...

By Quinnuendo, # 22. August 2008, 08:57:44

Sorry Tamil , its really unfortunate This is the world we live in and these incidents often happen. Very generous of Opera to replace your gift/prize

By flotsam22, # 22. August 2008, 09:13:00

Today, I filed a complaint with the local Post Office.

By Tamil, # 22. August 2008, 09:27:15

having been born and lived in India for most of my life, but now in Canada (thats right opera, Canada, the country you forgot to visit)... i would say its the indian postal system. a lot of things used to get stolen there in the postage, as the post service people make very little money. most of the times the prize got to me, it was because it either wasnt marked on the box or the prize was of very little value...

its not hard to mark something "torn and empty" eventhough such was done by the indian postage system themsleves. not hard especially with all the corruption there. I'm not calling India a bad country, but hey... lets not be blind to the corruption there.

its nice of Opera community to take care of it though, next time send it through a service like fed ex and dont mark what it is

Tamil would know the contents as soon as he sees an OPLC sized box anyways.

By friend1250, # 22. August 2008, 12:06:12

Hey Opera, I think you should have packaged your price and checked them carefully even before announcing! It's so sorry for Tamil. But anyway, I hope the thief (thieves) will soon be caught!!!

By lovelylions, # 22. August 2008, 12:55:08

This is August, not April. @EspenaO

Sorry Tamil if the story is true. You know you were my member of the year but unfortunately I'm not a money man like Opera. I think its the only reason why i didn't give you a "THING".

By Holo3D, # 22. August 2008, 14:35:33

Tamil doesn't have a thing?

By Furie, # 22. August 2008, 16:22:51

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