Next time you’re having a bad day, think of these folks…you know misery loves company:

Bad Day #1-Source KABC: A local musician is issuing a desperate plea for the return of a valuable violin that was stolen.

The rare violin and bow are worth $850,000
and were on loan to 20-year-old Lindsay Deutsch of West Hills. The
violin was made in year 1742 and the bow is just one of five in the
world. Both were snatched from Deutsch’s car as it was parked in a
Pavilion’s parking lot.

The rare instruments belong to Peter
Mandell, who loaned them to Deutsch. Both are insured, but aren’t
covered in this case, because they were stolen form a motor vehicle.

Bad Day #2-Source Boing Boing: Berkeley laptop thief is scared out of his wits by professor

The last few minutes of this video from a biology class at Berkeley is
of professor explaining the terrifying consequences that will soon
befall the student that stole his laptop. Hell, I’m 500 miles away from
Berkeley and I’m scared after watching this.

"For those people who don’t want to deal with RealPlayer I made a very lo-fi mp3 of the audio from the "Stolen Laptop" lecture posted earlier today…
(Editorial note from Jon: If
you want to hear this professor scare the bejesus out of someone in
front of a lecture hall full of students click on the "ver lo-fi mp3 link when you visit the source page).

Have a great day!