To the Kind Soul Who Stole My Passport(s)

[imcarthur]

I just wanted to post this in the hopes that it might wend its way through cyberspace & find you. Yeah YOU. The wonderful piece of humanity that did the cool smash & grab on the Hertz rental Yukon that was parked outside of L’Epice restaurant in Old Montreal Wednesday night two weeks ago about 9PM. Somehow, I doubt you own a Porsche but you never know.

You remember . . . it was getting really cold & windy that night. It’s a shame that you must work nights but I am sure that your family misses you & is constantly proud of the booty that you bring home. You broke the rear driver window & grabbed my briefcase from the back. It was a shame that you skipped the BMW behind me & the Lexus SUV in front because that would have exponentially increased your haul.

I am sorry that my briefcase didn’t contain a laptop which was probably your main hope. I feel ashamed that all you got for your efforts were two passports, my Florida Sunpass, an old scratched pair of prescription sunglasses & miscellaneous pens & hotel loyalty cards. Oh & the mount & cable for my new TomTom. I must apologize that the TomTom was in my coat pocket & therefore not available for your future use. Maybe next time.

You will be happy to know about the work that you have thrown my way. So far, this has involved a US Embassy visit, a Canadian Passport office visit – including that cool side trip to the lawyer’s office for that nifty notarized document. Of course, I also had to go for new mug shots for the above & that’s always fun too. Not to forget the phone calls. To Hertz. To VISA insurance. To Sunpass. And the list goes on . . .

Anyways, a big thank you once again. I hope that you can fence the passports. I am sure that it is rare to find two matching ones in one grab. I hope that you have the underworld contacts to sell them because they do have value even though I did unfortunately have to report them stolen. Although I will admit that the Montreal police were less than helpful in this matter. The telephone theft report – the next morning - was fun but they wanted to see me in person for the documents but I was already in a different city so I had to pass on this wonderful opportunity.

Oh . . . I especially want to thank you because now I get to have one of the new super-duper US passports with all of the pretty pictures & inspiring quotations & the embedded chip. I have included some pictures of this because it really looks much better than the old boring one. Maybe you have stolen one already?

Ian

[stomachmonkey]

Sucks dude.

It's why I always leave that stuff in the trunk or take it with me.

Minor inconvenience compared to what you had to deal with.

[charleskieffner]

check the mexican senor craigs list..................should be on there by now! LOL! sorry for your lose. what a PITA!

[vash]

that sucks.

(hopefully it was jason bourne )

[DavidB911]

Originally Posted by vash

that sucks.

(hopefully it was jason bourne )

You know he has like 8 passports, right??

The new passports are pretty cool. I like the important events in US pictures on the pages.

[Gogar]

If your passport is the "new" style USA passport with the "big brother" chip and you declare it stolen, they will nab him if he ever tries to use it that way. Small respite, I know.

[imcarthur]

I will admit to stupidity. I should have known better & left it at the office or in a locked trunk but we were in a rush. And I rarely rent SUVs unless I need a people hauler which was the case since we were off to Quebec City the following day.

I was very surprised that the US passport arrived exactly one week after I put in the app. And the folks in the embassy were all very nice. Interesting to note though that you cannot take a cell phone into an embassy. No electronic gadgets at all or they refuse admittance or confiscate.

Ian