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Has DiskWarrior's Eddy award been statue-napped?

Earlier tonight during Shawn King's Your Mac Life show, a chat room participant delivered a chilling warning to Alsoft, publishers of the venerable and vital DiskWarrior utility: a cherished possession, the 2007 Eddy award for DiskWarrior, was being held hostage in an undisclosed location. Indeed, the kidnappededdy.com site does clearly show a rather unhappy-looking award with a succession of rambling, barely-comprehensible ransom demands... cigars, bacon, tofu, birdseed -- either these people have a serious dietary problem or someone copied Wile E. Coyote's shopping list by mistake.

Our crack investigative team has run around looking very busy for the past few minutes, and our sources have all been dragged inside from their eclipse-watching parties to answer our urgent calls for information. We have reason to believe that the reprobates and ne'er-do-wells at Ambrosia Software are involved in some way with this award situation, and we can only hope that the wayward statue is quickly and safely returned to its owners -- unscathed and unscratched.

Thanks to Mat, Shawn King, and "Mr. X."

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Joseph Agreda

The birdseed was a dead giveaway. Hector must be gettin' hungry!

February 21 2008 at 10:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt

I'm giving the kidnappers props for the Calvin & Hobbes reference.

February 21 2008 at 9:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
krye

What is this like a MacHeist wanna be?

February 21 2008 at 8:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cowfodder

Has anyone tried to email them? If so what, if any, reply did you get?

February 21 2008 at 8:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
umijin

I think the next time I have to wait two months for them to mail a CD-Rom with the DiskWarrior boot disk I purchased online, I'll hold their Eddy hostage too.

February 21 2008 at 6:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Simon Arch

How much you want to bet this all leads up to Alsoft being bought out by Ambrosia, or the two companies merging somehow?

February 21 2008 at 3:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lee

LOL! This is hillarious! Have you read through the demands. Too funny.

February 21 2008 at 2:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stealth43

There is an email address: kidnappededdy@gmail.com

Thats: kidnappededdy {AT} gmail d0t com (in case it gets caught by the spam blockers the first time :)

February 21 2008 at 12:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Big John

@Ken: You mean not every Mac user runs Mac exclusively? I am shocked to hear that! Might want to let Parallels and VM Ware know, they should probably close up shop.

February 21 2008 at 12:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Big John

I love when Mac devs find creative ways to advertise!

February 21 2008 at 12:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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