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[MassNole]

Why You Should Never Try to Steal a Law Student's Laptop - Switched

Why You Should Never Try to Steal a Law Student's Laptop

by Dan Reilly, posted Nov 14th 2008 at 2:41PM

A thief learned the mistake of trying to steal a law student's laptop last week after after becoming a punching bag for an Arizona State student he tried to rip off. Armed with a baseball bat, the intruder, Gabriel Saucedo, allegedly climbed through an open window into Alex Botsios' apartment, waking the student and threatening to smash his head in.

Botsios was willing to let Saucedo take his wallet and guitars. Then the robber made the mistake that ultimately landed him in the hospital -- he went for the laptop. According to Botsios, he said "Dude, no -- please, no! I have all my case notes...that's four months of work!" Saucedo, obviously underestimating the fury of an overstressed, overworked first-year, was unsympathetic. That's when Botsios could take no more.

Wrestling Saucdeo to the floor, Botsios separated the bat from the thief and repeatedly punched him in the face. When it was all over, police had to get Saucedo stitched up before charging him with armed robbery and kidnapping, while Botsios only suffered some scrapes and a bruised knuckle. Most importantly, at least to the student, is that his laptop, which he called "his baby," escaped unharmed. Next time, Saucedo might want to try robbing a third-year student, as they're generally more docile. [From: KTAR.com]

[baumy300]

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Awesome.

Good for him.

[LL-Cool-P]

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Awesome.

Good for him.

Yup but calling your laptop "your baby"?

[baumy300]

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Yup but calling your laptop "your baby"?

I can definitely see it.

The man had literally had his life on that computer. Lots of people have things more important than money on their computers.

Like pornography.

[LL-Cool-P]

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I can definitely see it.

The man had literally had his life on that computer. Lots of people have things more important than money on their computers.

Like pornography.

Lol, I understand you but to invest that much time on such important work and not back-up or make copies is a little foolish... but then again, he is a first year student.

[Knight165]

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I can definitely see it.

The man had literally had his life on that computer. Lots of people have things more important than money on their computers.

Like pornography.

I was gonna say...."case files" must be a code word for porn.

M.K.
Knight165

[yucatan]

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I really don't back up my case summaries as often as I should. I try to back them up every weekend, but sometimes I get lazy/forget. Even then, with the amount of quality case summaries and maps floating around from previous years, my own case summaries aren't that much of a necessity.

[MassNole]

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I really don't back up my case summaries as often as I should. I try to back them up every weekend, but sometimes I get lazy/forget. Even then, with the amount of quality case summaries and maps floating around from previous years, my own case summaries aren't that much of a necessity.

Honestly, I only briefed cases my first semester of law school, really only the first quarter of that semester at that. Case briefing is the most overrated thing one can do in law school, not that 1L's realize that.

[Warrior1214]

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Good story. I just finished my first semester as a 1L and for those who take their notes on their laptops, it really would cause a lot of problems. I write my notes by hand, but I could see why this guy would go crazy on him. When I had my outlines typed out, 40 pages of work, better believe I would be fighting for that thing.

[CMH]

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Why was his window wide open?

Maybe I just notice those random things, but he deserved to have someone try to steal his stuff for living like there aren't thieves in the world.

That's like the people in the Bronx that live with one lock on their door and wonder why their stuff got stolen. It's called New York City. Think.

[MC Fatigue]

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but he deserved to have someone try to steal his stuff for living like there aren't thieves in the world.

That's absolutely idiotic.

[CMH]

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That's absolutely idiotic.

It's idiotic for me to see how idiotic it is to leave your window wide open enough for someone to sneak in and try to steal something?

Ok.

[MC Fatigue]

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It's idiotic for me to see how idiotic it is to leave your window wide open enough for someone to sneak in and try to steal something?

Ok.

No - it's idiotic for someone to say that they deserve to get robbed because they wanted some fresh air.

That's no different than the old belief that a woman deserved to get raped because she was wearing a skirt out in public.

It's simply idiotic.

[CMH]

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No - it's idiotic for someone to say that they deserve to get robbed because they wanted some fresh air.

That's no different than the old belief that a woman deserved to get raped because she was wearing a skirt out in public.

It's simply idiotic.

Yet, that isn't what I said. That's what you're thinking.

You want to make a statement idiotic because you want to relate it to a woman getting raped because she wore a skirt.

I clearly wasn't making that comparison.

Take some time to understand the context of the post before spewing your own idiocy.

[MC Fatigue]

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Yet, that isn't what I said. That's what you're thinking.

You want to make a statement idiotic because you want to relate it to a woman getting raped because she wore a skirt.

I clearly wasn't making that comparison.

Take some time to understand the context of the post before spewing your own idiocy.

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Then what exactly did you mean by "he deserved to have someone try to steal his stuff"...?

Because it sounded to me like what you mean was.... that he deserved to have someone try to steal his stuff. And my example is perfectly valid.

My example is perfectly valid by those words... Because they used to use them in court "she deserved to be raped... She was dressed too sexy"...

You're telling someone they deserved to be violated in a way because they did something that maybe wasn't the smartest thing. Neither of these things makes a person deserve to have it happen to them.

He left a damn window open - that doesn't give anyone the right to crawl in and steal his crap; nor does it mean he deserved to have it happen...

You're saying I'm spewing idiocy? Take a look at your own posts...