HOW MY LAPTOP WAS STOLEN AND RECOVERED

Here I am a dj and producer (VITAMINDEVO) sitting in the middle of the jungle in costa rica working hard on new music, learning to Surf relaxing away from the busy world of San Francisco. At this point in our 2 month stay in CR we had 1 break in already, with my dads laptop (didnt have prey on it), both our iPhones (didn’t have prey) and my wacom tablet stolen while we slept. A 2nd robbery attempt a few days later, saw the thieves thwarted off in the middle of the day with machetes, neighbors on quads and police on dirt bikes. In the end we never caught them and we figured they would be crazy to come back, after a barrage of people had chased them wielding weapons, into the jungle. Well crazy they were. While we were at dinner a few days later, we came back to find the place completely broken into, all the rest of what we had, Both our DSLR camera’s, Lenses, Cash and MY Laptop STOLEN!

At this point I immediately snagged a neighbors computer and went to the Prey Project site and initiated the tracking process on my machine. In a way i felt like it was a lost cause, here we are in the middle of the jungle, in a foreign country, with an hour+ radius of only dirt roads surrounding us. No way ill ever see my stuff again, or so i thought…





