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"Wanted: Do you know this hipster? Totes need to catch up again bro!"
It could have been a generic advertisement in the lost and found section listing stolen items but instead, a Perth man who refers to himself as Bobo has managed to attract more than 31,000 views of his humorous online post in just one week.
His online post is titled "Wanted: Do you know this hipster? Totes need to catch up again bro!" and includes a sketch of the alleged thief who stole items from his house.
The ad had garnered more than 31,000 page views from Monday to Friday, but has since been taken off the Gumtree website.
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A screenshot of the unusual advertisement.
Bobo starts out in a friendly enough manner, "Hey Brosef" he wrote before going on to congratulate the alleged thief for spending the night with his female housemate earlier in the month.
"She was pretty nice bro, righteous," he wrote with a smiley face at the end of the sentence.
"But let's face it you are a hipster and Apple stuff just magnetically attracts itself to you."
He goes on to say that the Mac Book Pro which was stolen belonged to his university and he would likely be charged $1249 for the loss of it.
"Meh no biggie," he wrote.
According to the online post, the laptop also has information Bobo needs to pass his classes he has taken at university this year.
"YOLO. I'm still young," he wrote.
The sarcastic tone turns serious when he explains the Ipad which was stolen belonged to his mother, who has cancer.
"Wanted me to install io7, lol. Silly I know right, it's just an excuse to spend more time with me; you know how mothers are when they get cancer."
Bobo sarcastically tells the thief now he won't have to hear the sound of his mum playing Candy Crush on her iPad while getting chemotherapy, "wayyyyyyyy worse than drawn out excruciating breaths."
It is not known if Bobo has had any luck getting his electronic items back.
Gumtree spokeswoman Niki Hennessy said an advertisement about lost items might usually get a few hundred views or maybe even 1000, "so this one has done really well."
She said posts which used humour and a bit of creative licence were often the ones that got the most attention.
"The nature of sharing these things online is that it then spreads and like in this case there is a lot of good will in people sharing it to help this guy get his lost goods back."
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