Stolen iPad Pictures, Allen Engstrom [PHOTOS]: Thief's Bizarre, Entertaining 'Selfies' Posted on Facebook, Twitter Go Viral [VIDEO]

Allen Engstrom was initially devastated when he discovered that his iPad had been stolen on a recent fight from Arkansas to Denver. But the businessman's distraught soon turned to delight when the alleged thief began snapping bizarrely entertaining "selfie" photos with the Apple device. Every time the unidentified woman takes a picture, Engstrom receives a backup copy of it on his phone. In an attempt to identify the thief, Engstrom began posting the odd (yet totally amusing) photos on Facebook and Twitter, and they soon went viral. Engstrom recently admitted to KTHV, "It's been a continuing fountain of entertainment for me."

The bizarre pictures Engstrom continues to upload onto his Facebook page feature a woman who enjoys taking "selfies" (pictures taken of oneself while holding the camera at arms' length). In several of the shots the woman's making strange, cross-eyed, pursed-lipped faces aimed directly at the iPad's camera.

Engstrom first thought of the clever social media "manhunt" when his son received a weird picture on the family's photo stream.

"He said mommy, who's this? And of course she said, I have no idea who that is. It showed up on my phone too," Engstrom told KTHV. "After a while we figured out what was going on. That's the person that has my iPad."

Now, Engstrom continuously updates his Facebook and Twitter followers on the whereabouts of his stolen iPad:

"Hey cool! This is an actual pic of the wonderful person who stole my iPad," Engstrom posted on February 27. "Apparently the pics she is taking of herself are backing up and appearing on my phone. No I'm not kidding, this is really happening."

"It's been a continuing fountain of entertainment for me," Engstrom explained to KTHV. "It's just like, I'll wake up one day and they'll be new pictures there and I'm like oh my gosh, she has no idea... I have no problem with putting it on Facebook, because hey, it's fun for me and it's apparently fun for a lot of other people and there's always the chance that someone will say hey, I know who that is... And I want my iPad back. I would gladly accept it back. I hope she does the right thing."

It's unlikely that the stolen iPad will return to the hands of its rightful owner, but Engstrom's social networking technique seems to be working. By coordinating with fellow Twitter and Facebook users, Engstrom's learned the iPad bandit's Instagram account name and knows that she lives in Phoenix. However, it still remains unknown if the woman in the photo is the ACTUAL thief. If anything, she'd know where the stolen iPad came from.

Before it went missing, Engstrom turned off the device's location functions, which is why he can't track down the iPad thief himself.