http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/1087533.html

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"Internet exposure solves theft of clock at NCSU By Josh Shaffer josh.shaffer@newsobserver.com Posted: Thursday, Dec. 03, 2009 A frame grab from security video shows the culprit removing a clock from the D.H. Hill Library at N.C. State. Watch the security camera video at www.lib.ncsu.edu/artbox/clock/clock.html . RALEIGH Caught on security camera: a tall, dark-haired N.C. State University student carrying a giant, neon wall clock out the front door of the main campus library. He strolls past the front desk without even a raised eyebrow, toting loot bigger than a manhole cover. But all it took to catch the clock-nabber was a pair of posts on Facebook and Twitter. Once footage of the crime made the Internet rounds, getting laughs on hundreds of screens, the outlaw was identified and the clock returned. Revenge is tweet. "This was a very good experiment in social media," said David Hiscoe, director of outreach for N.C. State libraries. "It's a very huge clock, and it was kind of sickening for it to disappear." The clock was one of a pair given by private donors in the newly renovated Learning Commons in the D.H. Hill Library. Hiscoe guesses it cost about $700. Some students saw it being pulled off the wall about 10 p.m. Nov. 15, but they apparently thought it was being taken down for repair or some other NCSU-sanctioned reason. After the clock had been gone for more than three weeks, library staff members sent out the video on Tuesday afternoon. Within a few hours, more than 200 people saw it on Twitter. The video was passed along to The Wolf Web, a student-run site. By 4 p.m., the clock was dropped off anonymously against the west side of the library. About the same time, another N.C. State student recognized the perpetrator, said campus police Chief Tom Younce. He would not identify the suspect, who will not be charged criminally. The student faces possible punishment from the Student Conduct Board. "It was basically an alcohol event," Younce said."

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12/3/2009 7:21:41 AM

an alcohol event

12/3/2009 7:25:49 AM

Which student runs tww?

12/3/2009 7:26:38 AM

i run this shit

12/3/2009 7:34:19 AM

today, we are all library clocks.

12/3/2009 7:36:19 AM

Let's be real, brah

12/3/2009 7:36:40 AM

an alcohol event!!1

this is funny

12/3/2009 7:51:58 AM

of course, clicking a dang link wasn't considered an alcohol event... clicking a link puts our national security at risk!!!!!

12/3/2009 7:53:16 AM

he stole it to hook it up as the timer for a giant neon bomb

12/3/2009 7:55:02 AM

basically an alcohol event?

is it or isn't it?

12/3/2009 8:16:15 AM

i don't think basically means what you think it means

in this case, the word "basically" means "at the most basic level" or "peeling away the details and examining the central fact"

it doesn't imply that it may or may not be an alcohol event as you have suggested

12/3/2009 8:26:51 AM

The kid returns it and THEN gets ratted out. That's cold.

12/3/2009 8:58:18 AM

If I stole money from a bank and then returned it I still committed robbery.

12/3/2009 8:58:57 AM

Why have a $700 clock anyway?

12/3/2009 9:01:05 AM

what a dumb question

why not?

12/3/2009 9:01:52 AM

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"an alcohol event"

so this guy will be at service raleigh. nice

12/3/2009 9:01:55 AM

12/3/2009 9:06:29 AM

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"Revenge is tweet."

i hate you.

12/3/2009 9:08:49 AM

So if they guy had been holding the clock 6 inches higher, he would have gotten away scot free

Sounds like the cops are trying to take too much credit when they basically lucked out

Typical

12/3/2009 9:10:58 AM

also goes to show how much you can get away with if you just act confident.

appear to know what you're doing, you can do whatever the fuck

12/3/2009 9:12:06 AM

^ exactly

12/3/2009 9:12:46 AM

TWW taught me everything I know.

12/3/2009 9:14:39 AM

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" Which student runs tww?"

are you threatening my authority.

12/3/2009 9:20:26 AM

And it's for something positive!

wow, that has to be a first.

12/3/2009 9:21:20 AM

anyone know who it is?

12/3/2009 9:22:23 AM

i've seen many photoshops in my day

12/3/2009 9:47:25 AM

perhaps we could photo shop people doing more serious crimes and post them here. then the police will arrest the wrong people....... hmmmm

12/3/2009 9:49:38 AM

quick, someone make one of gunzz raping someone in the food lion parking lot

12/3/2009 9:55:16 AM

I wish the police would allow me to blame it on the goose from time to time.

12/3/2009 10:01:18 AM

ENHANCE...ENHANCE...ENHANCE

12/3/2009 12:18:19 PM

Officer, I am really sorry I drove through those bushes and knocked over that street light. It was basically an alcohol event.

12/3/2009 12:19:49 PM

Where's WRAL on this one? Do they only report negative news about TWW? Just asking.

12/3/2009 12:23:59 PM