Beingthe idiot I am I left my MBP in the back of a cab in Bondi Junction last Thursday night.

After four days of waiting for the various cab companies to tell me nothing I have decided it ain't comin back.

Anyone know what to do in ths situation.

Should I make a police report? Contact the Ministry of Transport's lost property office? Are there online sites that serve just to register the S/N of lost/stolen laptops?

Any ideas appreciated.
Thanks in Depression

Police report for sure.

Do you remember the specific taxi company?

No I didn't notice what company. So have reported the incident to Taxis Combined, Legion, Premier, RSL, and St George Cabs. I've been told that these companies pretty much cover the city CBD pickups.

None have indicated that anything was handed in.


Does anyone know by the way, how to deauthorise a computer you no longer have in possession for itunes purposes?

My condolences...
To deauthorise instructions here, this assumes you have access to another mac though?

edit: scroll down a bit for 'deauthorise all computers'...

The driver has probably sold your laptop for a fraction of it's price, i'm sorry to say.

Should get those things from http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/

yes I saw something similar to that a while back......in hindsight........

I will get it for my wifes macbook though. thanks for the link

I doubt whether the driver would have been the type to keep it. He seemed like a nice middle aged japanese man listening to classical fm. Plus it was on the ground in the back where he would have had to been handed the laptop by the next passenger. The next passenger in Bondi Junction would probably be young backpacker. And I bet he would have taken it with him.

Ouch, that would suck balls man.
If I lost my notebook, I would break down and probably soil my pants. Not for the cost of the thing ($3k down the drain ain't easy to swallow), but for my precious beautiful data. If someone got a hold of my notebook, there would be super secret MacTalk stuff and lots of personal info I don't want anyone to see. Hmm, maybe it's time to get FileVault going

luckily I have been syncing with my home imac semi regularly so I only lost a few photos. I managed to lose 5 years of web pages and web sites that I had taken off .mac's old homepage domain but hadn't yet got around to archiving, so they are gone. All the music was on the iMac.

What was a big shame was the fact that I had a lot of my install disc for 3rd party apps in the bag as well. And I lost a 4G ipod that I cant be sure had data on it as well.

So mainly its the money and most importantly the time I spent configuring it to be just right for me.

ha ha... SAME

Sorry for your loss mate.... ouch.

I didn't soil my pants, but I did get (1) panicky, then (2) mad and (3) frustrated before (4) intoxicated

That'd be the order I'd do it in

Perhaps tell Apple that it has been stolen (in case someone trys to get it fixed)

I will do that.

I just reported it to the police. Apparently if someone tryies to pawn it off, the serian number gets reported and I get my laptop back.

I think Apple have some sort of similar scheme in operation with its resellers. I will give them a go now.

Should it not infact be

(1) intoxicated, then (2) mad and (3) frustrated before (4) soiling your pants?