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This reminded me of another missing person posted here. Does anyone know what happened to Luke Arduini? I have no connection, but for some reason this stuck with me.

Here's some background:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7048249

http://blog.izs.me/post/72990767417/a-member-of-our-communit...

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Very sad indeed - his friend's blog post on the subject:

https://the-pastry-box-project.net/charlie-robbins/2014-sept...

Ah, thanks for sharing this. Very sad.

Damn. Not sure what I was expecting, but that sucks. So sad.

That was actually kind of helpful, thank you for posting it.

The blog says that a 9-year-old girl saw a man matching Luk's description wearing a purple hoodie jump off the Golden Gate bridge on the very afternoon he disappeared. The police report about this incident was tracked down months later by a private detective hired by Yahoo.

Unless I'm misreading the article, it took months to unearth this police report. (The blog explicitly says that without Yahoo's help he would likely still be "missing" as he was for several months.)

This is terrible!

How is it possible that we have an NSA that is so wickedly super-competent that they can listen live to any phone conversation in the U.S.A. by clicking a few keys on the keyboard (per Snowden's claims), and yet the police department is so utterly incompetent (or uncaring) that they can't do the equivalent of a grep on the incident reports for Jan. 1 2014.

search 'purple|violet|red' + 'hoodie|sweatshirt|hooded' + male + radius(Oakland,25miles) in incident_reports_2014-01-01

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