Student Anne-Marie Downes had her bag stolen in England over the weekend, and it's prompted Twitter to show it's kinder side.
The Oxford University student's finals are in six weeks time, and she took to the social networking site to ask for help when her bag was stolen from her car.
She explains that she had hoped the notes may have been dumped somewhere as her pencil case had shown up nearby, but despite strangers doing their bit to help, the backpack and notes haven't yet been found.
1/: Hi Twitter - I'd be very grateful if people could share this thread! TL;DR: A bag was stolen from me in Durham yesterday and it contained nearly all my notes and work for my finals, which are in six weeks. I'm hoping they dumped the bag/contents and someone may find them.
— Anne-Marie Downes (@am_downes) April 8, 2018
2/: Yesterday (Sat 7th April) between 12 and 3pm our car was broken into in Durham in the car park in Pimlico, just off Prebends Bridge. My rucksack with my laptop, some other electronics and a lot of notebooks and folders containing two years’ worth of uni work was stolen.
— Anne-Marie Downes (@am_downes) April 8, 2018
3/: Finals are in six weeks’ time and I really need my lecture, tutorial and revision notes. I am hoping that whoever stole my bag will have removed the electronics and then dumped the rest somewhere - we found my pencil case in a nearby bush but unfortunately nothing else.
— Anne-Marie Downes (@am_downes) April 8, 2018
4/: If you live in or around the Durham/Sunderland area, I’d be really grateful if you could keep an eye out for the bag or the notebooks and papers (description below), especially in bins, secluded wooded areas or general wasteland.
— Anne-Marie Downes (@am_downes) April 8, 2018
What the student didn't expect was the amount of people who went out of their way to help. Former students even began sending her their old college notes.
Academic Twitter, let’s channel our collective hopes for a happy ending for this student. #SaveAMsdegree https://t.co/ntfoXoxnCx
— Pearadocs (@pearadocs) April 9, 2018
Internet, do your thing ? pic.twitter.com/gkvbpajiKi
— Jaime Lopez (@Lopeezie) April 9, 2018
I shall be walking that way tomorrow, I'll keep my eyes peeled. Good luck
— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) April 8, 2018
By the stone stile? Possibly dumped in the woods beside Durham School or on South Banks. I’ll have a quick look in the morning.
— Anthony Veitch (@tonyveitchuk) April 8, 2018
I've got ethics, philosophy of religion, and sociology that I can pass your way ☺ graduated ox ppe 2016 but things can't have changed that much... Let me know how best to send them over
— Sandy Downs (@sandy_downs) April 9, 2018
Can send a couple of those across. Graduated 2015. Lmk how!
— Ben Goldstein (@bgolds12) April 9, 2018
An update for all the lovely people who have been asking: nothing has been found yet unfortunately (although with this many people helping I have hope!) but people who are doing/have done the same course as me have been sending me their own notes which is incredibly kind ❤
— Anne-Marie Downes (@am_downes) April 9, 2018
