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From: "Rad" <rad@cyberdude.com>
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Subject: Re: Stolen Yaroze - the ongoing saga
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:13:12 -0000
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Mario Wynands wrote in message <769gsm$22923@chuka.playstation.co.uk>...
>Hi All,
>
>Just thought I would vent my frustration by providing an update on the
>stolen Yaroze situation (for those that don't know my Yaroze was one of the
>items stolen in a burglary which occurred while I was away in Hong Kong at
>the end of October).
>
>After nearly two months of hassles, the insurance company (National
>Insurance if anyone cares) has finally decided to approve my claim.  The
>reason it took so long was because I was interviewed twice by private
>investigators hired by the company who seemed to have the notion that
>
>a.  I had engineered the whole thing, and being in Hong Kong at the time
was
>just a convienient cover.
>b.  I had put in a significantly inflated claim.
>
>I also had to provide receipts or instruction manuals for EVERYTHING
stolen,
>including a stolen serial cable and a stolen RCA cable that were about four
>years old!
>
>I am currently battling to have the Yaroze replaced.  Initially I was
>offered a normal PSX instead (yeah, right!), and then they had the nerve to
>ask whether the Yaroze just had superfluous features which I wouldn't use
>anyway.  I explained that if that was the case then I would have paid
NZ$230
>for a normal one instead of paying NZ$1500.  Morons.


hehe.

>The current delay is that they are trying to source a Yaroze through a
local
>electronics chain, Bond and Bond.  Again, I had explained that they won't
be
>able to get one because of the membership agreement process and highly
>controlled distribution.  The insurance guy stated that "Bond and Bond deal
>with Sony all the time, so they must know what they are talking about".  No
>amount of yelling or screaming would convince him otherwise.  Time to talk
>to the branch manager I think...


Sorry to hear your having problems, time to switch insurers me thinks!
Can you not run yaroze programs on a professional development kit?

>On the plus side we had a ring from the police the other day saying they
had
>apprehended a criminal who admitted to burglaries in the area at the time.
>She had escaped from an Auckland prison some weeks beforehand, and had
>travelled to Wellington to hide out.  She was taken in by a local good
>samaritan who she robbed a week later marking the start of a spate of
>burgalries in the area.  Travelling back to Auckland she posed as a Toyota
>representative and managed to get a Toyota land cruiser for a test drive.
>Needless to say she didn't return it.  However,  luck was against her and
>the brand new vehicle broke down just outside the city limits where she was
>picked up by police.  Unfortunately no trace of the Yaroze (or amongst
other
>things, the washing machine she stole either) :(
>


Wow, she managed to escape from prison, burgle a washing machine & pose as a
Toyota
representative to "test drive" a Toyota land cruiser!!! New Zealand hay, hmm
nice to hear people are on top! ;-)

>
>Regards,
>
>Mario
>Email mario@sidhe.co.nz
>Website www.sidhe.co.nz
>


Happy New Year,

Rad.
rad@cyberdude.com
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~radpsx