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In my country police put out unlocked "bait bikes", walk away, and then arrest anyone who takes it. Then they show the footage on the news. Sometimes the plain clothes police officer hasn't even left the camera frame and someone is already on the bike riding off. If they'll spend resources doing that (which I think is good) then they should spend resources catching someone that maliciously destroyed a year's worth of laptop data. If he was a developer and his code was on that laptop, at $150 per hour, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 52 weeks the financial cost is much more than a bike. Sure the victim should have a backup, but an eggshell skull is no defense.