Honorable Thieves

And No, I'm NOT Talking About ANYBODY In DC or Wall Street.

Laptop thief backs up victim's data, mails it to him

from the CNET article:

For around a week later, the professor says he received an envelope. Inside was a USB stick. Did this hold information about a rival professor's indiscretions with his comely students? Did it hold images of Tiger Woods on a private trip to Sweden?

No, it held all the data from his laptop. The thief, it appears, took pity and spent perhaps hours making sure that the professor got all of his unbacked-up information back.

The world is a harsh, unforgiving place, in which we lose far more than we win. But if this thief would merely open a university program for thieves, then surely the world's karmic balance might be shifted for once in a healthy direction.