What to do when laptop is lost or stolen?

Last night my friend carrying my backpack left it in a cab we took and it had my MacBook Pro in it... I've called the cab company several times and nothing has shown up yet.  My computer is offline so I cannot track it with iCloud. What should I do? Will my computer connect to internet(and then be able to be tracked) without someone logging in?
:( please help

It's hard enough to track computer with iCloud "Find My Mac" enabled. We're tracking one now that was stolen yesterday and due to FileVault2 being enabled (making the system of limited use without access to anything but the guest login to Safari) it's not on long enough to act upon once we're notified of it connecting to the internet.

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