I got robbed!

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It happened on V-Day while i was work..must've been anytime from 3-11 CT 'cause that's when i was work..they got into my house from my utility room door and made their way to the living room, stole my x-box ($150) and most of my dvd collection (about $150-200), then made their way out the nearby window in my living room..now my sense of security is robbed along with those possessions! I filed a report with the police, even had fingerprints done at the scene of the crime..hopefully it'll produce some results other than my own fingerprints..GRRR THESE KIND OF PEOPLE JUST MAKE ME WONDER ABOUT MANKIND..HOW COME THESE KIND OF PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE, THE KIND WHO WON'T LEAVE YOUR S**T ALONE..I DON'T GO 'ROUND STEALING PEOPLES' STUFF..
i live in a trailer park, and none of us really have THAT much anyways..people who like to steal from other people make me f***ing sick..i hope the kids (which it looks like the work of kids) get smallpox or something bad but not life-threatening happens to them..i know it sounds bad, but anyone who steals like (kid or adult) that deserves whatever's coming to them...
anyone else in here ever get broken into or robbed? if so, were you more scared or angry..what were your first thoughts after it happened to you?

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It's not nice to be robbed MrMeaner. I went through anger and mistrust when I was robbed. I knew who did it too and could do nothing about it. I lived in a block of units and my landlord own another of the units. Turns out that guys front door key fitted my front door. I new it was that guy but I didn't tell him I knew, and I didn't tell him the money had gone missing. A week after the money went missing he says "hey I wonder if my key fits your lock." I told him to try it and it worked. I was furious but had to pretend not to be. I told the landlord that considering it was partly his fault that this guy had gotten in that maybe he could let me off $150 rent. He said that because I could not prove that it was this guy then he did not feel responsible and would not let me off any rent.
The reasons I believe it was this guy are:-
he knew I was going away for the weekend
he saw where I put the money
he saw me leave
he volunteered the knowledge that his key fit my door

I too felt MAD! and Very distrustful of w**kers and justice and fairness.

ElfMan

A while ago my sister was robbed. They stole her tv, jewelry, and I don't know what else. They even stole my brother-in-laws clothes. Her neighbors actually saw them come into her house and put her stuff in a van. But the idiots didn't call the police, they just watched and wrote down the license plate number. Turned out the car was stolen so that wasn't any help.

well the deputy (who came by yesterday) and the investigator came by this morning and threw a name at me and said they'd be around here talking to people, 'cause the other person who got robbed around here in dec. had similar stuff stolen from her too, so i'm keeping my fingers crossed..

Hope they manage to catch who did it.

MrMeaner,

Last year someone took a CD player I had in a car that I wasn't using. The CD player had to be about 4 or 5 years old. I probably would have given it away to someone if they had only asked me. Instead they took it from me! Yeah, feelings of being violated is exactly how I feel, too. The day before it was taken, someone left a note on my door asking if I wanted to sell the car and if so call so-and-so at such-and-such number. I'll let the car rot before I sell it now - It ticks me off so royally that, if ANYONE dares set foot on my property again without my permission, I'll take a Ball Bat to their Head! I live in the country and I have installed motion detectors and have slapped NO TRESPASSING signs on everything. I feel that's enough of a warning for the wrath I'm gonna throw at who ever decides "overstep into my world" - I pity the fool!

The police didn't even bother to come out to my house. They called me on the phone and I gave them all the info I had on the CD player and the note I had on my door. I was soooo nervous talking with the cops that I probably sounded like I had stolen something myself! I know they thought I was just some nut case. They said they'd look into it but I never saw or heard anything else from them. I noticed alot of other No Trespassing signs put up in my (country) neighborhood so I suppose I wasn't the only one ripped off. It doesn't make me feel any better to know this.

My home was burglarized back in the late 80's. It was a disturbing experience and because of that incident, I am still somewhat paranoid about it happening again. The feeling of having your home violated stays with you for quite a while. Fortunately I currently live in a neighborhood with a very low crime rate. Our complex has its own security service and our neighbors keep an eye out for suspicious activity.

The day we were burglarized, I was home alone. In the afternoon, I left to visit a friend who had called me. Later that day, I came home and noticed my father's closet open and a cloth bank bag on the floor. Then I noticed the VCR was missing. I opened the bank bag and there were silver coins inside, from my dad's collection. I knew something was wrong and called the police and my family. We discovered that they had stolen silver coins, the aforementioned VCR, and several handguns.

A neighbor saw the crime happen, but she was a drunk and couldn’t remember any worthwhile details. She didn’t call the cops, although she knew something was wrong.

Years later, the friend I had visited that day confessed to being involved in the burglary. He was assigned to distract me, while two other "friends" pilfered the house. They sold the coins, which were worth several thousand dollars. The handguns they sold or traded for cocaine. That was the motive behind it all, to get more drugs! The fellow who confessed apologized to my family. All of the perpetrators were minors at the time, so we didn’t think we could do anything about it so many years later.

My high school statistics teacher got robbed the year I took her class.

Among the stolen items was her CD collection. The cops asked her how much it was worth, and when she tried to figure that out, she realized that her calculators had been stolen!

I'm really sorry that happened - that's terrible.

Some people do absolutley noything for this world and it would be better without them.

That's horrible, MrMeaner. I really hope your things turn up. Do you have any local pawn shops? That would be the first thing I would do if something of material worth was stolen from me. Even though most people would keep the x-box and CDs, most thieves just want cash.

The same thing happened to my dad a few years ago. He was in Chicago working for a Broadway show that was on tour, and someone broke into his apartment and they stole his laptop. My dad filed the report, but it just took too long. He went to the nearest pawn shop and sure enough, there was his laptop. I don't think they ever caught the guy though.

Good luck.

MrMeaner we were robbed several years ago, they stole anything and everything! I'm still not over it. You feel violated and become very paranoid aobut any strange person or car in the neighborhood.

yea actually i did look around at a few pawn shops yesterday but i didn't find anything..

thanx for all your responses..

there were notes posted all over my neighborhood concerning the breakins (mine and someone else who got robbed in dec.), so now everyone can be extra cautious around here of suspicious activity..

the most we can do after something like this is to just get on with our lives, which is what i'm doing..i even went out last night and bought back some of the dvd's that were stolen from me

[quote="Bec"]Do you have any local pawn shops? That would be the first thing I would do if something of material worth was stolen from me. Even though most people would keep the x-box and CDs, most thieves just want cash. [quote]

you know, they went for expensive items like the x box and the dvd sets that i had, which would fetch the most money..so i called the first pawn shop that came in my head, the most obvious one..and the lady there said she couldn't give that information to me, just the police..but what good will that do me if they don't contact me again? i feel po'd right now, especially at the pawn shop..the way she talked, it sounds like that's where my stuff is...seems to me they're on the criminal's side, not mine..

The detectives who came to our house said theives usually sell everything on the street or take it out of state. We looked at flea markets and yard sales for years after. We are still paranoid about everything.

The really bad thing is, we had dead-bolts on all our doors and window locks on the down stairs windows. The robbers just broke through a lower level window and climbed through.

i never got robbed
but most likly i will