I lost my Mac Book Pro 17" at Macdonald's Bangsar Telawi, 6.48am this morning Monday November 16th.
I left it in the female's toilet above the flushing thing... (yes stupid and careless I know, pls try to refrain from bashing me.. I am crushed already T_T)
If you have found it please return it to me..
My email is itsablushberry@gmail.com or pm me here..

The workers are pulling the feed out of the cctv... will update here when I have the video..
I can't live without my mac.... T_T

ouch.. hope you will get it back.. but dont put too much hope.. >.<

new one?

do you remember your serial?

sad 2 hear tat,faster go report

Go to make a police. Try to ask the mc d give you the cctv vid asap. All the best.

yea thanks for the concern.. was expecting some scolding T_T.. i'll report to apple as stolen mac soon.. then after that police. i want it back!!

cctv in toilet?

any chance you have any tracking software in your mac? undercover mayb?mm if you dont den the chances of recovering your mac is quite small unfortunately. lost mine a few weeks back. yeap, i know that feeling.

cctv right outside the toilet.. no undercover. no mobileme.. so no detective story here wish i had that installed.. my skype is set to launch n sign in once my mac powers on.. my messengers are all on adium.. n gmail is in thunderbird.. so i m not sure whether anything can be traced from here or not.

So for other mac user now, really have to take care your mac well. Mac is not "pricey" like how pc are. "Investing" for undercover is a good decision.

totally agree...but will undercover works if the mac is reformated straight away?

i have no ideal with that. I think one of our active member here using it. You can ask him. Now thinking of the mobility usage of my mac, really need to consider getting that undercover.

getting mobileme is a more feasible i think. cuz u can access your mac using 'back to my mac' .. from another mac if it is stolen.. n control ur mac from there.

Well, i have no idea with how both working. As i know, the undercover is quite good, you cant format/modify the admin account due to some firmware setting(im not sure). And the only wan you can do is create a new user account and all of your activities there will be monitored and send to the owner.

Try to get the serial number for your macbook pro, and then contact apple retail dealer.
Give the number to the shop retailer.
Once your notebook send to service or trade in, they will contact you.

sry for heard this, hope u get back soon.

hazy.
sory to hear.. MACbook pro.

reported to apple. going police station now f*** my life.

i dont think they can do anything. got my mac stolen too, went to them they said there is nothing they can do. and this person that took your laptop might not even know how to use it. see a laptop inside a toilet stall, anyone wud take it.

Sorry to hear that, do post your serial here for people to look out for.. Contrary to what most says, there are still chances of recovering your Mac, though slim. Good luck.

just came back.. its crazy.. they keep bashing me on how i can actually lose or misplace something like that. i was fine. now i feel damn rotten. my serial number is W87253CPX94.. thanks everybody..

Was ur laptop without any sleeve. and placed like dat?!

Sometimes i am panaroid to use my laptop at public place at the same time & same spot.

Afraid ppl will aiming me someday..

..Maybe you have been targeted for a while..?!!

Hope you can get your replacement soon~!...Take care~

nope.. it was in my sleeve.. i was leaving thats why the mac was with me..

I also not very sure about this, just my friend also lost his macbook last year, and surprise! He get back his macbook.
He pass up the serial number to machine service department and ask them for help.

I dont think you will get it back. Even mcd reveal the cctv u wont know who is it?

1st you are careless
2nd Even the thief or kind person found it might not just return to u. Imagine this he sells to shop or lyn seller he might get RM2000 above. He return to u he might only get maybe Rm50 and Rm100 and a thank you.
3rd Even report police do u think the police will search everywhere for your notebook
4th Even u report to mac they have no way to block the notebook

Good luck.

10 out of 1 ppl i know only found back their notebook. Hope u are the One out of millions

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Added on November 16, 2009, 10:56 pmLastly how did it get lost? U left it there and left mcd? or when ure doing your business it disappear?

This post has been edited by aspire2oo6: Nov 16 2009, 10:56 PM

Any update story??

You're of such great help in this case.

lol its ok la... i had worse in the police station.. from ok turned rotten.. sometimes harsh people exists to remind us of our mistakes.. the updates is I will be checking on Macd this wednesday... the funny thing is everyone think that the staff took it. including the police. cuz there wasnt much people there.. and all. will update asap!

I will suspect the staff too, give them a little pressure, send your case in to McD Malaysia and see what they say. After all it happened at their place they should know and do something about it.

http://www.mcdonalds.com.my/contact.asp

thanks... will follow ur advice
tomorrow the inspector is going there.. will updates again!

Just make sure u make sure the inspector go. For every scenario you must prepare for the worse and the best.

The best is u make sure the inspector go and retrieve the cctv footage.

I'm sorry to hear that. Hmm, make a police report. I'm sure something would come out of it.

Few years back a friend of mine got his MacBook stolen when he was sitting around in Starbucks (Old Jaya building, Section 14). After he used it, he placed it right underneath his feet (it was in the laptop bag). 20 minutes later, it was gone...... and when he told the workers at Starbucks about it, they told him that "Oh, you're not the only one who got your laptop stolen. Few days ago 2 businessmen got theirs stolen as well. Some African dudes started talking with them right before the laptops went missing". =.= After the incident, my friend developed some kind of severe paranoia about bringing any kind of electronic items out. Pity him, though.

Anyway, I hope your laptop would be retrieved from those criminals.

Cheerio and God Bless.

Yeah you right friend,
no wonder la..

wah so sad.. pity 2u miss..

Hey Haze. Just saw this. So sorry to hear this happened. :C
I hope you get your Mac back. Hoping for the best. *hugs*

If you have the firmware password enabled, you can't reformat the mac.

i'll requote myself from a past post:

wah haze is good that you post here too, wish u the best...Thank god, mod move ur thread here, at least can deter ppl from selling ur mbp here.

hey guys.. update.. yall are not gonna believe this.. they cannot detect anyone carrying out any laptop at all from the cctv.

n ... someone lost their CHILD there.. according to the woman checking the cctv she been checking for 10 hours.. looking for my mac and the CHILD.
fml.

Perhaps there's a window inside, they could easily sneak them out, without noticing other person?

they can just put inside there backpack, how the CCTV can do? n sadly to say, surely is female thef...

Did u see urself bring the mbp to the toilet from recorded CCTV?

the cctv never show anyone came out with your notebook?

lesson learn

Prey is a lightweight application that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free.

http://preyproject.com/

i dun think it can be stuffed into a bag.. cuz its 17".. no normal female bag can fit it in.. thats why i suspect its macdonalds

1. Any employees going in/out during that period?
2. Any out of the ordinary thing happened to you on that day before the event?

Reason for question 2 is, there had been many cases, people are just "persuaded" to give away their valuables without even knowing it themselves. At the same time victims' attention are usually diverted, and the next thing they know, something's missing. They prey on innocent people, usually at restaurants, tourist spots etc. They work very much like a syndicate.

This post has been edited by civic98: Nov 20 2009, 12:33 PM

possible is the workers there if that MCD have not much customers. try to ask them , maybe they will be panic. LOL. good luck

peeps i got back my mac!!
mcd called me just now.. went to get it.. was untouched cuz they din take the power plug.. n i think it ran out of battery cuz was 'sleeping' too long..
i cannot get into details on what happened due to a promise i made but its all thanks to the restaurant manager of McDonalds Bangsar Telawi.
Anyway.. bout the child.. (it was a 15 year old child) who got lost.. he was always at Mcd every night.. with lots of storybooks.. for 3 days straight.. parents looking for him n such.. but he did not come back.. so that's still an open investigation..

So to help people who lose their Mac in the future :
1. Get help in the location that you lost it.
2. Report to AppleCare and Police station(bear the sufferings)
3. Block possible trading online by blasting your loss all over the net.
4. Monitor your online accounts for messaging and emails. If you notice that someone is using your accounts, get the IP address.
5. Suggested softwares to be installed in your laptop PRIOR to losing it : any of the suggested anti-theft software mentioned in the thread, MobileMe
6. If you have MobileMe, you can control your missing Mac from another Mac and pull information on what is happening, once you get any personal info bout the thief..the mac is yours!
7. If you do get back your Mac, don't lose it again.

Thanks for the support and help...
As a note of appreciation, McDonalds's staff is efficient (bangsar telawi branch).. Apple hotline too. You guys.. peeps in my twitter(itsablushberry) and my facebook as well.
No thanks to the police/investigators at the police station. For more info, the nice lady at McD told me that the police will not take action once the report is lodged until u kecoh about it after that. Then only they will take action. ~just in case your stuff got lost and you want some action taken.

cheers
haze

This post has been edited by hazy_glade: Nov 23 2009, 03:54 AM

woah, got promises somemore. inside job eh?

so we know 1 of the staff at MCD took it & finally gave in.

haha..i think just the worker or maybe cleaner lah...anyway, u are really lucky and happy 4 u also...