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dude that's really messed up. i hope they find them. u have insurance?
Sooooo, my wife and I went to Arizona this past weekend for some R&R.
We have two dogs we do not like to board, so we usually have someone stay at the house instead. It always the same person, a lifetime friend of my wife, you would basically call him a family member. He stood up in our wedding and just to knee-cap the expected response, he is most certainly gay, so no, he isnt sleeping with my wife.
Anyway, we left him in charge of the household. Hes a bar-fly, so him going out and getting toasty is expected.
What is not expected is for him to bring total strangers into our house.
According to his story (which I am very much in doubt at this point), he was all ed up at the bar and wanted to take a cab home. Two twnety-something guys talk him into driving him and his car back to our house.
According to his story, he went inside and went to bed. Woke up to find his wallet missing and his cell phone. Moreover, he cant find one of our dogs.
He calls the police. The police respond to a "suicidal call" (his response to the police "i couldnt live with myself if I lost one of their dogs"). They enter the home and find the dog locked in a closet. So our two babies are fine and in good health.
Our friend, beside himself with grief, checks into rehab (wtf? really? coward...). Leaves the house as is and never calls us (nor did the cops). My wife and I are in AZ, calling him all day Sunday with no response. We know something is wrong, she speaks with him everyday, especially when he is in charge of our house.
We finally get his call at 8:00pm on Sunday (10:00 EST). He says some bull like I just explained and that "my computer router/modem is missing".
Obviously, we are anxious to get home after that phonecall.
We get home yesterday at 7:30 EST now knowing what to expect once inside. We got ing robbed.
My "computer router/modem" is sitting right where it should....what is gone though, is my ing computer. And my wife's.
And her 20 or so Coach purses.
Oh yeah, and my Xbox 360, my PS3, my Wii, my surround sound system and any number of games/accesories (they actually searched the house for the Wii nunchuks and took those too, they werent with the other gaming ).
Obviously, I call the police to come back out immediately. Nice deputy shows up. Goes through the motions, makes a few phonecalls to our now suddenly sick, depressed and severly medicated "friend".
Our friend says he didnt invite them in, that the must have followed him through the garage and got in. I call bull , there are multiple filled ashtrays and 3 seperate kinds of pop cans in the basement.
I think our "friend" got to bragging at a bar that he was house-sitting his friends nice house and caught the ear of interested criminals. They probably pulled some info out of him about how long we were gone, etc etc. They play nice guy and offer a ride home. Our "friend" then invites them inside for a couple drinks ( ing asshole), as he is already -faced, he doesnt last long and passes out wherever.
So these guys go about the house checking things out, seeing whats valuable, and start unloading . They took everything out our back door (which makes no sense) and walk around the side of the house.
Oddly, the took a dog cage outside and left it out there (this, I dont understand, unless they thought about stealing one of our dogs).
The cops are coming over today (after I get out of work) to take finger prints on some areas of the house. I hope one of those thieves have a drunk driving or some other offense that required finger prints, because theyre everywhere in certain areas.
So, all in all, our losses look like this...
(20+) Coach/Louis Vuitton purses/handbags/wallets = ~$10k+
(1) Bad-ass, liquid cooled, custom painted computer = $7k
(1) One generic Dell computer = ~$2k
Xbox 360, 4 games, 2 controllers and a charge station = ~$700
PS3, 2 controllers and a charge station = ~$600
Wii system, 4 controller, 2 nunchuks, 2 charge stations = ~$500
All my HDMI cables, Component cables = ~$200
JVC surround sound system = $800 (5 years old)
Total: ~$22,000.00
It isnt so much the material that pisses me off, its the information on the computers, the personal work unfinished on said computers, all the crap that can be used against us later, down the road. I mean, with my computer alone, I might want to consider my iden y being stolen at some point in the future.
To the Mother ers who stole my and are probably playing my ing games right now and going through the "Favorites" of Internet Explorer seeing what kind of person I am...
I'll see you soon. Real soon. I really dont want any of my back....keep it. But I'd sure like to meet you. Do you want to meet me?
ing cowards.
dude that's really messed up. i hope they find them. u have insurance?
That really sucks. Condolences, man.
There are some really ty people out there. I can't really blame you for being upset with your friend; regardless of whether or not he meant for this to happen, part of the responsibility of house sitting is to make sure this sort of doesn't happen.
Best of luck. Hopefully they are able to track something down on the losers that did it; criminals tend to be too dumb to cover their tracks a lot of the time.
you got home and contents insurance?
looks like AIG will need another $22k bailout money to compensate ur losses.....
hence buy new stuff, stimulate the economy man....
hey those console games, dont they have a serial number on the back where u need to register if you wanna use the online services? maybe you should contact them manufactures or site if anyone tries to re-register that console online with another username? get IP recorded and get cops onto their asses.....
I wonder , if you murdered your wife's friend right now for being the cause of this, you could get away with it as a "crime of passion". That might be worth considering.
Oh that is ed up!!
I hope you seriously kick your "friends" ass!!
Hope you get everything straightened out.
That really sucks dude. My work laptop was stolen at a bar I frequent a few months ago, but the idiot came back to the place the following weekend and got busted!So I got my laptop back within 3 weeks of it being stolen. I was lucky.
Your "friend" sounds like an idiot and I would disown him if I were you.
Sorry to hear about this, DR. My house was robbed about two years ago. Glad your dogs are okay, that was our biggest concern as well.
The upside was that with some smart shopping with the insurance money we received for everything that was stolen, we upgraded pretty much everything we lost... So aside from the loss of our sense of security, we're better off now.
The worst part is the data on your computers that is likely lost forever.
what's your xbox name? Check to see if they are online right now
We need to have one of those message board rallies where we find this er's Facebook, show up at his driveway, and YouTube his arrest.
Yes, of course.
That is exactly what cannot be replaced and what I am most concerned about.
They will eventually make a mistake.
Your friend is a bag and you'd probably be better off without him in your life.
At least your dogs weren't harmed.
that sucks man, I hope they find out who did this. And I hope you or your wife checks your "friend".
Oh man that really sucks. So glad your dogs are okay though. Hey I hate to be such a but that sounds EXACTLY like what happened to me with a ed up lush/cocaine addict friend of mine. He was such a jerk I can't even call him "gay" because that would be too respectful. They get so obsessed with getting laid and ed up that nothing else matters and they'll backstab anyone and then hide like a coward. In fact my friend is so much like yours---he was my wedding coordinator! I finally got tired of getting used and ripped off by him that I wrote him off, and we had been friends since childhood.
I think you should make your friend take you to that bar---there's a good chance those assholes will return.
Thats the entire point of having someone house-sit, is it not? I havent felt this kind of betrayal in a looong time.
Done. Little ing coward cant even stay sober long enough to return phone calls. He's resting comfortably in his mother's lap as we speak, pumped up on Xanax and whatever-else people take who up royally and cant stand to man up and take responsibility.
Depression/Personality disorder is the lamest excuse the world over. This guy is actually receiving sympathy for being a total -wad. Unbelievable...un- ing-belivable.
What I want to know is, how and where can I get a depression problem so as to not have to take responsibility for anything I say or do because I'm "sick"?
My mother does it. This asshole does it. My not-re ed, social-security-check receiving loser associate does it. I hear any number of stories about it, I read it in the news all the time about people being bipolar or whatnot as if that has anything at all to do with the fact that they hit and killed a kid while driving home from who-gives-a- .
I want my built-in excuse. I want that luxury...to not be a responsible adult who owns up to their mistakes, so I can run and hide under the guise of disorder when things go south because Im an impulsive bag with little grip on the reality of my dismal, unimportant existence.
Oh, thats right. Im better than that. Almost forgot.
Last edited by DarkReign; 03-03-2009 at 01:19 PM.
I didn't read any of it because it's a long post and I'm lazy as . But please pick a response that is appropriate.
1.) That sucks. Hope you feel better.
2.) Way to go!
3.) That's a great sweater. It looks warm.
4.) I had a car like that once. It gave me all sorts of problems too.
5.)
What bar was he at?
holy , paki is in rehab!?
i think he did this to mr. dio too...
That's a good point. Although it's unfortunate, your "friend" is your only hope in getting those computers back. You need to go to that bar with him and have him finger the perpetrators.
Of course you might have to pretend to be gay to pull it off...
Not that there is anything wrong with that...
no surveillance tape from the bar?
no descriptions from the "friend"?
no description of the vehicle?
Yeah, to be honest, thats all I could think about when I was in AZ. Those two mutts. Sorry to hear the same happened to you.
That issue (security) is what is hardest to deal with at the moment. Not me, I know what happened (i think). These people just had a stroke of luck and took what they wanted and left, to never come back.The upside was that with some smart shopping with the insurance money we received for everything that was stolen, we upgraded pretty much everything we lost... So aside from the loss of our sense of security, we're better off now.
Try telling that to my wife. She doesnt want to be in the house, she doesnt want to be alone, Im getting a phone call every 10 minutes at work, etc.
I feel horrible for her because I love her to death and want to make her feel safe immediately, but its just not that easy.
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