I just got robbed.

[MillsJROSS]

Isnt' life interesting. I just got a call from my roomate that our house was broken into. I'm staying at my parents, and can't get over there for another month before I make a police report, of course. They broke my window, and stole maybe twenty dollars from me.

As I'm staying at my parents house for the summer, and working full time, I don't have time to go down there and assess the damages. But they left my computer, and my games, and books. Or at the very least, didn't take all of them, but I won't really know what they stole for about a month and a half. They apparently left my room in disarray, which of course nullifies the ten hours I spent reorganising my room before I left. I made sure eveything that was important to me was still there. But once again, I can't really assess what they've stolen until I go there myself. They might have stolen my check book, but as I ran out of checks, hopefully, nothing will come to pass.

I'm glad I was smart enough to take all my DVD's with me, which I might leave at my parents house, when I go back. Probably the worst thing they did, was apparently went on my computer and looked at porn...which as it turns out, at the very least, tells us when they broke in.

I didn't really have any expensive jewlery or anything I couldn't do without, other than my computer, trombone, and some books. So I'm not horrible. My other roomate had a lot of things stolen, but they generally stayed away from anything big, so I guess it was a small job. The stuff they stole from my roomate, like fraternity pins, is unique enough to find them out, if they try to go to a pawn shop. Which is how my roomate tracked someone down who had stolen something from his car last year. So I can only hope that they try to sell the stuff they stole.

-MillsJROSS

[Nacho]

Come on, confess that you wanted those pins...  : Confess.

[BOYD1981]

your friend might want to check ebay as well as pawn shops, i bet most stolen goods these days are sold over ebay...

[MillsJROSS]

If the guy spent some time to look at porn on my computer, I'm pretty sure we can rule out that he has access to a computer, and uses ebay.

-MillsJROSS

[ildu]

That's just baffling. Why would a robber spend time with porn at a time like that, and why would he steal pins? Are you sure it wasn't some prank ?

[m0ds]

Sounds like an inside job to me, Mills. You don't generally go to steal something & stop off and look at porn on the way. Time to get your gooey out and do some investigating!

ildu suggests a prank and hey, I'm just going to throw this one in there but - not a room-mate? Do you completely trust them? Sounds like someone knew you were going to be away for a while...

[Pumaman]

You don't generally go to steal something & stop off and look at porn on the way.

Speak for yourself.

[MillsJROSS]

I'm positive it wasn't a prank. My roomates and I do pull pranks on each other, but nothing to this degree.

The situation has actually been resolved. Suprisingly hours after my roomates found out about the theft. One of my roomates passed our neighbor (who's town house is linked to ours), and told him to be carefull that we had just been robbed of two amps. Our neighbor told them that was stange because his roomates (three guys who shared one of the four bedrooms together, so that they could split the rent already split in four, into three again), had just come by some amps, and told my roomate to come in and look. Sure enough, it was our amps, and they had a box with all our stuff in it, apparently ready to be sent out to a friend of theirs.

They weren't at home, then, but when they came home, they were arrested on the spot. These are guys I see almost everyday, and I'm congenial to. The cops told my friend, that this is a fairly common practice. The people you see all the time, know when you are in or not in your house. Apparently, they got drunk and decided it was a good idea to break into their neighbors house.

That's just baffling. Why would a robber spend time with porn at a time like that, and why would he steal pins? Are you sure it wasn't some prank Cheesy?

As we found out, they had been drunk, so there ability to be logical was impared. They apparently just stole a bunch of random crap that didn't really make sense. That said, I've been drunk an uncountable number of times, and never have I had the inclination to break into someones house and rob them of anything. So if/when it goes to court, I intend to make sure they're found guilty.

The thing that pisses me off, aside from them drinking our beer, is that I had thouroughly cleaned my room after I left, and when I come back I have to do it all over again, with the addition of having shards of glass lying on my bed and on the carpet. But I'm really just glad the situation was resolved so quickly.


-MillsJROSS

[m0ds]

Glad it's sorted for you, Mills!

Don't forget to tell the judge about teh pr0n! Hehehe

[LGM]

Yea, tell him it was kiddie porn.

[Kweepa]

Embarrassingly the computer wasn't connected to the internets.

[Squinky]

You need to disenfect the crap out of your computer man.....ick.

[PsychicHeart]

Your roomate seems very calm. I would have maimed them with a battle-axe.

[MrColossal]

They stole his battle axe

[Hammerite]

Time to get your gooey out

thats what the burglar did when he watched porn.

[TheCheese33]

It's good that you caught the burgular. And here's a good point to bring up at court; if they use the drunk excuse, then how come they were about to ship the stolen items out, at a time when they couldn't possibly be drunk?

[Squinky]

I seriously doubt that would even be an excuse, or that Mills will even have much to do in the prosecution of the guys. Since he witnessed nothing, he can't really take the stand, and it's a pretty cut and dry case anyway.