I didn't think anything was amiss until I opened the driver's side door to get in and could see out the other window like it wasn't there. That's because it was in tiny pieces all over the seat and parking lot.
Instant inventory told me that they had grabbed my vintage red Dreamforce bag which had been sitting on the front seat (not smart, I know, but I wasn't thinking about car prowlers at 7 in the morning). In my bag was my Cr-48, a digital camera, a check book and my digital voice recorder. The thief didn't disturb anything else.
As I called the police to report the theft a waitress at the diner explained that I was the fourth or fifth smash-and-grab victim in the last two weeks. So someone had figured out that people with laptops like to have breakfast at this particular diner. It's a smart bet, as Beaverton is alternately known as the "Silicone Forest" because of the close proximity of microchip fabrication facilities.
The irony in all this is that the thief got their hands on a laptop that they could have had for free. That, and unless they went out and bought a power converter, the laptop would be dead in a few hours of use. I didn't have the cloudbook's converter with me.
UPDATE: The red Dreamforce bag was found a few miles away, dumped and cleaned out of all electronics.
