So last night a mutual friend traveling in a train had her bag stolen which carried her laptop, backup drives, clothes etc. She woke up to find it missing.
She's also a Steemian so she's obviously lost access to her account. I'm not sure if she's had any other backup of passwords stored anywhere else. Importance of a secure cloud storage cannot be over stated eh? That's another post in itself.
Anyway, it can be very daunting to deal with such a situation as she was hundreds of kms from her destination and didn't even have a charger to charge up her phone. Fortunately she will reach home safe and sound.
Traveling can be a nightmare when bad things happen to you but theft can occur anywhere, anytime.
In 2016 I had this happen to me. I was robbed of my belongings in Goa. Laptop, clothes everything when someone broke into my hotel room and stole my things; never to be found again.
In my childhood my bicycle was stolen, and I was also pickpocketed once in a crowded Indian bus. I think I was in the 3rd or 4th grade at the time.
Nothing much in between these incidents and the laptop theft.
Cops here are pretty useless most of the time. Even if you can pressure them to doing their job it can turn out to be quite a futile experience. Atleast in my experience.
What about you? Have you ever experienced this in your life. What happened?
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