“An Aspen hair designer pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor theft for stealing Kevin Costner’s laptop computer in 2004. In the hearing Monday, Pascal Bensimon told Pitkin County District Court Judge James Boyd that he was sorry for the problems he caused by stealing the laptop on the day the actor wed Christine Baumgartner,” The Rocky Mountain News reports. “Bensimon was sentenced to two years of unsupervised probation and 25 hours of community service, and was ordered to pay $1,500 restitution.”
The Rocky Mountain News reports, “Bensimon’s arrest affidavit said that Bensimon’s son contacted the laptop’s manufacturer, Apple Computer, to get a new password and gave the serial number of Costner’s laptop. A security consultant hired by Costner contacted the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office, which interviewed Bensimon.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: One of our favorite stories wraps up; it’s a delicate mixture of pure joy and abject sadness here at MDN headquarters today.
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Hairdresser charged with stealing Kevin Costner’s Apple PowerBook – December 15, 2005
does it strike anyone wierd that normally when a laptop is stolen the article says ‘laptop stolen’ but when it’s a PowerBook it’s like ‘oh $hit it’s ON now b@tches POWERBOOK STOLEN’. Like the PowerBook is more special than a regular foodstamp laptop..thoughts??
Good to see Kev passworded his machine.
also, who the he|| calls Apple to get a password? Use Password Reset on you disk, weanie. Oh yeh, he stole it– nevermind.
pretzelman: “..thoughts??”
Nope. I read that post two-and-a-half times and I couldn’t find evidence of a single one. Better luck next time.
/it’s early and I’m cranky and there’s no news from Apple. The silence is deafening.
The man got off lightly. Imagine what the bull queers would have done if they’d found out that there was a hairdresser in the next cell block.
“Bull Queers” – oh yeah, this comment thread is going places.
does seem awfully light-restitution less than the laptop cost new, and BS community service. When I was a kid we got more CS time for busting a picnic table. . .
On the other hand, I’ll bet this has put a dent in his business.
They’re bear-raiding AAPL again.
*Buy a whole lot of shares when the price is low.
*Sell them when trading is light and force the price down.
*Buy even more for the same sum you got when you sold.
*Sell them when trading is light and force the price down eveb further.
And so on.
The bastards wont leave AAPL alone.
Sorry, I digress.
I’m sat here laughing at “hair designer”. How funny is the USA?
Who is Kevin Costner?
MDN Letter: F. As in “WHO Fucking CARES.”
The kid had to be a Windows user. “Thanks a-lot son”
At least the thief has good taste.
A Powerbook and a nice haircut.
That’s more than can be said for Bill Gates.
Bull Queer.
Hehe. Now I’m all moist.
Kevin Costner’s an actor in the US.
Search is name here.
http://www.imdb.com
Lantzn, definition of sarcasm found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
One word:
Filevault
MDN word:
bill
“I’m sat here laughing at “hair designer”. How funny is the USA?”
I wonder if Jonathan Ive “designs” hair?
Glad the person didn’t try to steal his LISA. He’d break his back!