14 DAY TRIAL // Hilarious is too soft of a term to describe this Danish police investigation of a stolen credit card. Danish police investigators had a contradictory chat with the author's roommate, regarding stuff like why she could read his November emails since the 1G iMac was just two weeks old, and where exactly was the 1G iMac, 'cause all they could see was PC monitor.
Agreeing to let the police look at her first generation iMac, Danish police investigators were "frustrated because they thought the iMac was just the screen. They wanted to know where the actual computer was and got rather heated about finding it," MacObserver reports, according to the author of Rottin' in Denmark.
Danish uniforms got even more confused over why the roommate was able to read his Web e-mail from November, while the respective iMac was just two weeks old. (I personally thought this was a joke, the first time I read it).
And now for the best part. From the this-one-should-have-been-a-scene-in-Idiocracy, brace yourselves...:
"'We have your roommate's permission to confiscate her computer,' the Ichabod Crane one said.
'Whatever,' I said. They had already assured me that we would get our laptops back that afternoon, so I figured the damage had already been done. Ichabod started rooting around under her desk.
'Where's the computer?' he said.
'On the desk. That's the computer,' I said.
'No, the computer.'
'That's the computer, dude.'
'That's the screen.' He had lapsed into the voice you use when you explain to your 6-year-old cousin how the toaster works. 'I mean the compuuuuuter. Understand?'
'Dude. That's the whole computer. Right there. The blue object the size of an armadillo.'
'No. Where the daaaaata goes. The computer part.'
'That is the computer. For Hell!' Danish swear words aren't as satisfying.
'So that's the entire computer, right there?'
II was standing there with a look on my face like I was watching a dog walk on its hind legs.
'New technology, huh?' he said.
I blew the dust off the keyboard and handed it to him. 'Do you mind if I check your badge again?'"
And it doesn't end here. Yeah, I know, this is too much, but as sad as it is, there's more. When the roommate also revealed that a neighbor of theirs was also able to log on to their open, wireless network, the officer's response was... (again, embrace yourself): "The internet doesn't work that way."
And to think that sometimes your very life depends on these people's actions...