Update: Jane McG sez, “The photos on the Flickr “someone stole my laptop” set were clearly borrowed from the Top Shop fashion-cam. This must be a clever prank or art project.”
Update 2: Daniel sez, “I’m not sure that this is a HOAX. True, those photos appear
on the TOPSHOP website, but I think that is part of the automatic
uploading function. TOPSHOP links to their Flickr page, where the
photos are being uploaded, and which clarifies (slightly) with this
statement:”
To clarify: This is not a Hoax. Two computers were stolen from the
Topshop London Fashion Week, Covent Garden Venue, London, UK, during
11th to 13th February 2007. These computers were set up to
automatically upload photos to the Topshop London Fashion Week Website
via the Topshop Flickr Account. About a month after the theft new
photos appeared on our flickr account and london fashion week website.
A Flickr user whose computer was stolen has posted a gallery of the (unidentified) thieves, who have inadvertently uploaded dozens of photos of themselves to Flickr, not realizing that the MacBook had a photobooth program set up that uploaded photos taken with the built-in camera to the Web.
Our black apple macbook was stolen recently. It had an automatic upload to flickr set up from photobooth.
These photos appeared on our flickr a few weeks after it was stolen.
Have you seen these people?
Do you know who they are?
(via Gizmodo)