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JK Rowling asked people to help a Dublin student find an important bag - and it worked
UPDATED: Friday May 12 at 4.15pm
HAPPY NEWS FOR the Irish student who lost a bag full of important stuff on a night out – it has been retrieved, thanks in no small part to JK Rowling.
Earlier this week, Trinity PhD student Jamal Sul took to Facebook to tell the story of an important backpack that went missing last Friday.
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His story began:
Jamal’s bag contained his laptop, PhD notes on lab work and a month’s worth of work based on his lecturer’s recommendations.
Most cruelly of all, he was on the way home to back them up on his hard drive.
Once he posted his story on Facebook, the shares started racking up. On Thursday morning interest peaked when JK Rowling screenshotted it and tweeted it to her 10 million followers
That’s one way to get word out.
Jamal has no idea how it came to JK’s attention, but he tells DailyEdge.ie that spreading the story is the only way he has a chance of getting the laptop back at this stage:
Social media was a last resort, as Jamal has spent nearly a week exhausting all other practical measures on the ground – from contacting the carriage office to reaching out to local businesses looking for CCTV of the incident.
His friends shared the post with taxi drivers they know, and he provided a a description of the driver in the hopes that he might be recognised by someone in the cab community:
Getting JK Rowling on board, however, was a blessing nobody could have imagined
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As he said himself:
Either way, it all worked out in the end – the taxi driver got in contact with the Sean Moncrieff show on Newstalk, which had Jamal on yesterday.
The bag was picked up, and Jamal came to the studio to collect it today:
Back on Facebook, Jamal has thanked his friends, the driver, and of course, JK Rowling:
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