Mark Bao, from his Twitter profile
We've told you about thieves that post pictures of themselves on Facebook, using and flashing(亮出，炫耀) the stolen goods. We've told you about bungling(拙劣的) burglars(窃贼) who have left their charging(正在充电的) cellphones behind, caught in the act of pilfering(偷窃) other people's property. And now we present you with another addition to the list of wish-they-were-smarter-criminals-but-funnier-that-they're-not: a young man who preyed on a Massachusetts college student, used his victim's MacBook Air to take a picture of himself and record a video, the latter accessed(得到) by the computer-savvy(精通电脑的) victim and posted online.
The victim, Mark Bao, is not your typical 18-year-old. He's the kind of guy with the kind of scary know-how it takes to exact sweet revenge, to the delight of Twitter followers everywhere and anyone who's ever been violated(侵犯) by thievery(偷窃).
This is what Bao did, about two months after the theft: using BackBlaze, an automated(自动的) backup(备份) syncing(同步) service, he found an access point into his missing MacBook Air since any changes made on the computer were also reflected in the cloud. Bao now had a way into his hard drive, and browser(浏览器) history.
Here's what he found: the thief took a photo of himself using Photo Booth (reflected in Bao's tweet: "Wow. The first thing that MacBook thieves do REALLY IS take pictures on Photo Booth. I didn't think they were that dumb!") and the pièce de résistance, a video of the perp trying to pop-and-lock to a remix of Tyga's "Make it Rain." Bao posted it on YouTube and announced it on his Twitter stream ("The video is up! This is the dude who stole my MacBook Air a few months ago.)
Bao traced the thief back to his Facebook page using the browser history, so now he's got the guy's name. Based on 9 mutual friends, he thought that the thief was another student who lives in the same building at Bentley University. He tweeted: "he goes to my school! a few floors down from my dorm." Turns out, he was wrong.
Currently on spring break(春假), Bao doesn't seem like he's in any hurry to bust(打破，打碎) this guy, having already replaced the laptop almost immediately (according to his Twitter stream). He does say he plans to report this to the police and campus police once he's back at school. Another tweet reveals possibly more retribution(惩罚) is coming: "And yes, I have thief guy's Facebook and everything. I'm too busy to stage any serious lulz, but don't worry... lulz will certainly happen."