Big Dumb Idiot

me, originally uploaded by workspacevan.

So a guy had his iMac stolen. That's bad. Lucky for him, the criminal turned himself in in a most unusual fashion. In case you don't have the pleasure of being a Mac owner, all Mac computers have a built-in camera, and a nifty software called "Photobooth" that takes photos with it.

The criminal was playing with Photobooth, as we are all wont to do, but he happened to title it and click an "upload" button, though he didn't know what it uploaded to. Turns out it was a software that automatically uploads photos to the rightful owner's Flickr account. Imagine the theft victim's surprise when this photo appeared in his Flickr stream.

Of course, the image and story made it all around the web through Digg and Boing Boing, and before long, Flickr provided the IP address that the photo had been uploaded from. Eventually, the Big Dumb Idiot turned himself in, claiming that he got the computer from a friend of a friend.

Of course he did.