The first incidence happened Thursday sometime between 9:00 & 11:45 am. Terran and I left to go run some errands and as we returned we saw that our alley facing back door was ajar. Upon further inspection he (I guess I should say he or she to be gender equal but I'll go with the odds on this one) had bent our metal door trying to kick down the locked bolt side but opted rather to kick the back door off of the hinges instead. Terran was pretty shook up as we called the police to have them send an officer to clear the house for us. The theif took a laptop computer, film camera, video camera, iPod, PDA, and about 15 DVD's and still counting. Most of those items were gifts to Terran or ones that she used often, so it hit her especially hard. The thief was too lazy to unplug the DVD player from behind the TV stand, but was gracious enough to leave several fingerprints behind. The police officer dusted the DVD player for finger prints but I wanted him to give the DVD player the whole CSI treatment, black lights, a ballistic test, DNA mapping and such, or perhaps a short montage of the robbery from the DVD player's point of view. It was interesting to hear the landlords say that someone was robbed at another duplex that they owned about two houses down from ours. It’s too soon to call it a crime wave, but maybe we are in the midst of a crime ripple. All in all we were very lucky, no one was hurt, and we have renters insurance so we should get a check for the reimbursement fairly soon.
I would be curious to hear if anyone else had the same overwhelming urge to commit insurance fraud like I was tempted to. Much like a mother gives her restless child a broken camera to play with, I finally convinced Terran to let me fill out one of the blank stolen item forms and exaggerate to my hearts content, My 90" HD plasma screen TV, Playstation 3, Solar powered Hovercar, and replica Bat Man suit (the Michael Keyton version) were also mysteriously absent from our home. Maybe they'll turn up at a local pawn shop one of these days.
As for the second time we got robbed if any of you saw the NBA finals...you know what I'm talking about. Go Mavs!
2 comments:
hey bro from my row I did not know you got robbed what the hey? now of course you know that second robbery wasn't really a robbery well maybe that serious was but they would have gotten a spanking from yeah you guessed it right the Spurs so maybe it was really a gracious gift!!!
hey I just now realized this was back in 2006 but my comments still stand!!!
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