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Just wanted to share that I'm in an f*****n mood.
My house got broken into while I was at work Friday.
That will teach me for leaving my house to go earn $$$ to be given to the guv'ment that will be re-distributed to the people who stole from me! (Well, don't know for sure, but I have a strange feeling it's the renting neighbor who got kick out for non-payment and who doesn't have a job... because he don't want one...). That's what I do for a living btw, I work in IT for a financial institution who distribute benefits of state funded programs throught debit cards instead of paper foodstamps and other means. By no mean, I'm picking on people who need assistance. I only pick on people who choose not to work.
After carefully ripping the lock of the sliding glass door of the back of the house (townhouse), and making it unusable, they stole for about 5000$ of stuff. Mostly electronics, but nothing big/heavy like a TV.
What bothers me the most, is that I'm an electronic geek; which means that I buy my stuff when it's hot off the press.. and so is the price. Example : I paid 400$ for a 4.0 megapix digital cam a while ago. A 4.0 today (if they still sell them...) cost less than 100$ and is twice as small. Same for my DVD, if was the first DVD to work with HDTV. Options like progressive scan, THX and digital out were keyword that most of the world wouldn't know about for another 2 years, but I PAID FOR IT. So this 300$ DVD now cost about 90 in a store, maybe 65$ on ebay. Same for music CD's, don't get me started on that; a 15 years collection (240 CDs). The police officer only wanted to round it at 15$ each. I truely believe it's closer to 22-23 each. You do the math! I don't buy the "pop" stuff, the music I buy is usually twice is much $ and for a reason; It stoud the test of time!
I could go on like that, cause they got my GPS, mp3 player, cell phones, 2 guitars and amp ... A bunch of cables that I could not even find on the internet today, which will make other piece of electronics that I still have useless.
Anyway, I'll wait for the insurance adjuster to call me back before painting a too negative picture, but with a 1000$ deductible, I think I will be no where near breaking even.
Almost forgot. I'm a jeans, shorts and t-shirt type of guy. THEY STOLE MY T-SHIRTS.... about 35 of them as well as all my shorts! WTF ?
I have an alarm system that I never used before. I called the company today so they can come over and give me a code or something usefull. I also drilled a hole through my patio door and installed a pin. I can't use piece of wood in the bottom, since both door slides open. Also, the locking mechanism on these didn't have the on/off switch, just the small levee for the latch. You have to have an on/off switch, else it only takes a phillips and 3 seconds to pop it open!
Great! I feel better already. It's just stuff anyway. Nobody's hurt and they didn't trash the place, so that's cool!
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A house I was renting got broken into once when I was about 20. I had a
cookie tin full of change on a tv entertainment system. Only a few
people knew about it and they WERE my friends. The only thing that was
taken out of my house was the tin full of change. I had scuba equipment
setting around, stereo stuff etc. Nothing missing, nothing touched,
just that cookie tin full of change. I am sure it was one of my
buddies.
Just be glad no one got hurt and watch your neighbors to see who is wearing your t-shirts.
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Not much worse than a thief. Lazy, no good, sum bums.
Just be glad no one got hurt and watch your neighbors to see who is wearing your t-shirts.
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Not much worse than a thief. Lazy, no good, sum bums.
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Sorry to hear of your loss. I have had it happen twice. The first time they got a checkbook, 9mm S&W, and some jewelry. The second time when moving across country the packers got the rest of the jewelry and coins the first guy missed. We took the insurance money less deductible and bought a dining room set. They can't get that through the door without taking it apart first.
We don't buy expensive jewelry any more either.
Need lock these types up and make them work for their food and to pay for their gray bar hotel. If they don't work, then they sleep out side in a tent with bread and water. Maybe Iraq would be a good place for them. Troops could use them as decoys
Man, that is a serious bummer.
I have never had my house broken into, but I have had thing stolen from my yard, and some things just destroyed by vandals. Every car I have owned as my daily driver work car has been damaged in front of my house at least once. Usually minor, but it still ticked me off.
I once had two wheel covers ripped off with my car in the driveway. I went to the used wheel cover shop and bought two more. One of them had an odd mark inside. A few weeks later, they were gone again. I went and bought two more. The same mark. I bought my own wheel covers back. This did get the interest of the local Police. The third time buying back my own wheel covers resulted in several arrests. I never lost any more wheel covers.
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I feel your pain and anger, Stephane. 
Been there, done that, more than once. It sucks a big one, for sure. Punks. 
I had a house broken into once, and the thieves took all my collectors stuff, specifically. Knew where it was, etc. Ripped the whole door off the back of the house. If that wasn't bad enough, the scumbag neighbors that lived behind us decided, since the door was open, they'd just go shoppin for whatever they wanted! Caught them with the VCR, and tapes a few days later.(an' that's all I have to say about that.... 
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PUNKS
Been there, done that, more than once. It sucks a big one, for sure. Punks.
I had a house broken into once, and the thieves took all my collectors stuff, specifically. Knew where it was, etc. Ripped the whole door off the back of the house. If that wasn't bad enough, the scumbag neighbors that lived behind us decided, since the door was open, they'd just go shoppin for whatever they wanted!
Caught them with the VCR, and tapes a few days later.(an' that's all I have to say about that.... )
PUNKS
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sorry to here it. pisses me off that there are scum bags like that out there.less than human.
thankful no one was home, some one may have gotten hurt or worse yet, if your like me, done something stupid like kill the b@&%$*&D.
two words
"black Dog"
I suppose I've been there too. A long time ago. 1986, I was still married and working out of town. My house got torched, totally destroyed the house and almost all of our belongings. Dead of night and like 8 degrees outside. I found out later the guy that did this just lit stuff up for fun! Luckily, the boys woke up and got their mom out in time. Nobody was hurt, but the firemen said it was only by minutes. I credit that to the stuff they learned in school about staying low. We lost everything we had that night just from a guy that liked to watch stuff burn.
Thanks for the good words! Needed it.
Another .... detail.... I am french canadian (if you didn't know), and I only started locking my doors since I moved here back in '98. Actually, I only started locking it last year, because one of my neighbor had a habit of just walking in. He didn't know the rule of knocking/ringing the bell first which bothered me a bit if I had a girlfriend over.
Except for that, I've always been an "open door policy" type of guy. It's hard me me to understand that you have to lock the doors. It makes me feel prisoned inside my house...
The past few days have been such a roller coster in emotions that I'm thinking of buying a camera with motion sensor that feeds through a web site (again... electronic geek). I don't care about prints, I want to see their faces.
Anyway, if it happens to you, don't waste your time going through pawn shop unless you have serial numbers. And if you do have serial numbers; you probably gave them to the officer, so it doesn't matter, cause the pawn shops have to verify the numbers with the county before putting any items on their shelfs. BUT if the thief goes to a pawn shop at another county... he's golden!
The insurance adjuster should give me a call in a day or two, so I'll let you know how much is my real lost.
While complaining, here's somethings else that bothers me; about 30% of my CD's where french canadian; how in the hell I am going to re-buy that without a trip to Montreal! Second, my digital cam had about 20 picutres that I just took 2 weeks ago in Montreal. They were mostly of my niece who is only 15 months old. I've only seen her 3 times; birth, baptism and 2 weeks ago. Those pictures are priceless, because as the GodFather, I get to have special smiles. Smiles that she only gives to special visit. Those souvenirs are now gone (except for my brain) and I won't get them back. Now THAT is a bummer! I couldn't care less about a DVD brand name; my niece gave me smiles from the heart that no money/time can replace.
I bet the insurance don't cover that kind of thing!
Well, I sound very negative right now, but don't worry, it's all good. I'm very happy to be on the side of the line where I still have a roof and I have a warm place to stay as oppose to the guy who got my stuff to survive tomorrow. It would make it easier if they knew about the charity organisation I contribute to, but...
Similar thing happened to my wife and me in our first apartment in 1967. Someone broke in and took my large jar of loose change, movie camera, jewelry, etc. Felt very vulnerable and violated. And this was a nice part of town.
Growing up, we never locked the doors.
Now, we lock everything, always.
Sad state of affairs that we have progressed to.
Will it ever get better? Probably not.
I feel sorry for our children and grandchildren.
Growing up, we never locked the doors.
Now, we lock everything, always.
Sad state of affairs that we have progressed to.
Will it ever get better? Probably not.
I feel sorry for our children and grandchildren.
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