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Hey, Dicks! Aaron Duran
Okay... this isn't about the fine GitC readers. (At least, it better not be)...
Anyway, I tend to not post city news, but, I felt this would be important to my fellow Geeks and Nerds...
FreeGeek ripped off over the weekend
This was received from multiple sources including Kilo Seven, Slashdot, and multiple folks from OryCon:
Hello, fine people. I'm writing with sad news. Last night, Free Geek, Portland's groovy technology non-profit, sustained its most major break in to date. The majority of the items stolen were laptops, a few hard drives, and LCD screens. Many doors were smashed in forcibly in the process. While our laptop program is becoming a major source of income for us, it also is a great source of needed hardware for local non-profits. This income is now gone, and local do-gooders will have to go without our free source of laptops for a few months.
So we're making a call out to the community to help us stop these thieves and prevent this from happening again. If you're offered a laptop with Ubuntu Linux installed on it in the next couple of months, give us a call at 503-232-9350. Used LCD screens, while harder to pin down as originating at Free Geek, might raise an eyebrow as well.
Thanks for your help!
Email FreeGeek here if you have any information.
UPDATE - Check out KiloSeven for images of identifying marks on the stolen items
Listening, stealing is wrong... But, it is even worse when you steal from folks trying to help Geeks that are short on the cash and want to get their Geek on.
If you must steal... Steal from the man, not the masses!
Monday November 20, 2006
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