Thief leaves cruel note after stealing uni student’s laptop

A young woman has been left devastated after her laptop was stolen, with the thieves leaving a cruel note behind.

A young woman has been left devastated after her laptop was stolen, with the thieves leaving a cruel note behind.

“Sorry you should take security seriously. Blame the council and get a refund for your laptops,” the note read.

The thief ended the note with a seemingly sarcastic “sowwy” and a sad face.

Rachel, an after-school worker from Seaforth Community Centre in north Sydney, described the note as “really vindictive”.

“It’s like ‘I’m going to steal your laptop and I’m going to rub it in your face that its gone,” she said.

The thieves left a brazen note for the woman to find. Picture: Facebook

She described herself as a “broke uni student” and is now faced with having to pay thousands of dollars to get a new computer and losing all her work just before her final year of studies.

“I’m broke, I’m a uni student, I’m still studying,” she said.

“I don’t have enough money to get a new one, I only got it a couple months ago and I literally haven’t even paid it off yet.

“I literally live off that, my whole life is on that laptop.”

Her colleagues have set up a GoFundMe to help raise money for a replacement, given the laptop would not be covered by insurance.

She says the laptop was left in a locked office overnight and has no idea how the space that she believed was secure.

The laptop that was stolen was an Apple Macbook Pro.

The police have taken the pen and paper used to write the note and will look at finding fingerprints if possible, however the young woman says she won’t take the matter further if the thief returns the laptop after posting about it online.

“Especially if it‘s a high school or primary school kid that’s just bored and breaking into s*** for the sake of it, I’m hoping that if a parent sees the post they’ll come hoe and see a laptop that‘s not themes and be like ‘I know where that’s from’,” she said.

“I don‘t really care who has taken it I just need it back, even if they call me on a private number and arrange to drop it off at a certain time.”

Concerned community members responding to her post offered advice that she should get a new laptop through the council’s insurance, however as it was her personal laptop she has been told that it won’t apply.