Served: Laptop thief suffers YouTube dance humiliation

by Steven Mostyn - Mar 24 2011, 12:59

Ordinarily, we at The Tech Herald would never condone posting someone else’s personal videos onto the Internet without their permission—especially if said content contained potentially compromising footage.

However, if a cringe-worthy dance video created by a busted laptop thief should happen to hit the Net courtesy of a mildly vengeful victim, well, we’d be willing to turn a blind eye just this once.

More pointedly, when disgruntled 18-year-old student Mark Bao, who attends Bentley University in Boston, had his MacBook Air computer half-inched from his dormroom, he figured it was long gone. And, in effect, it was.

But, unbeknownst to Bao, all was not lost because the light-fingered rapscallion responsible for lifting the portable computer was busy enjoying his ill-gotten gains without considering he may have stolen from a well-informed geek.

Months later, and armed with a new laptop, Bao popped onto the cloud and was stunned to find that not only had the long-lost MacBook Air’s online backup function been used after the date of the robbery, but he also had access to the thief’s contact information.

Keen to do the right thing (at least partially), the young student promptly notified the police, who were able to track and apprehend the technologically stunted criminal and recover the stolen computer.

The true joyous part of this story comes upon learning that Bao’s fortuitous trip to the cloud also uncovered a slice of increasingly hilarious footage showcasing the thief’s humiliating attempts to dance before the MacBook’s web camera.

That clip now resides online and has been viewed almost 650,000 times.

We suggest you now look the other way… as long as ‘the other way’ is directly at the following YouTube gem.

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