Petty theft out of my (unlocked) car. Someone using my bank card (well, a copy anyway) half a country away. That’s about all I can think of.
In the former case, I just replaced my missing MP3 player and wondered what an old Sansa preloaded with terrible music fetches on the deep underground black market these days In the latter case, the bank quickly resolved it and refunded me my money having figured out that I probably didn’t buy breakfast in Chicago as I do every Sunday and then rush to Atlanta to buy gas a half hour later.
–home burglary (no one home)
–bike stolen from garage when I was in junior high
–forged checks
–assault by drunk stranger at a high school party
–hit once by my ex wife
–car window smashed and radio and misc items taken
Had a generator stolen after a snow storm blew in and we lost our power. Got it back a week later, it was found a week in a pawn shop.
Couple years ago had some mail stolen. Didn’t realize it till a month later when I got a call from a sheriff’s office from a county 100 miles away. They busted a couple and found over 3000 pieces of stolen mail in their car. All that effort to get it back to me and it was just junk mail.
Thank you! I know self-defense, and always remember what a cop told me: You have one second to get as angry as you can, and the rest of your life to be scared as hell.
Do you have a cite for that? I suppose if you include traffic violations like speeding you might get close, toss in failure to recycle maybe you’ll get more, but there a lot of people who can readily avoid committing any crimes at all.
My car was broken into, stereo and every CD that I owned at the time stolen. And I mean every single CD, of which there were hundreds, was in my car. It sucked, but I’ll hand it to my insurance company because they hooked me up.
I had the SAME car stolen 3 times…a 1986 Buick Regal with a Saginaw “tilt wheel”. Apparently this is a simple theft using a hammer and a screwdriver. Thankfully the engine blew shortly after the third recovery and the insurance company DID own up to the fact that the thief(s) in their joyriding had run the fuck out of the car. They covered it for Bluebook minus deductible.
As I opened this thread, I was all set to answer “no”, but then I remembered the time a burglar entered my apartment while I was asleep, and stole my laptop, which was about a yard from my head at the time. And the second burglary at the same apartment, which prompted me to move.
I guess the question automatically made me think of serious, violent crimes like assault or rape. I’ve been fortunate enough never to have been subjected to one of those, so I don’t think of myself as a victim of crime.
I’ve had a number of things stolen from me. Electronic equipment at work, tools around the house. Generally my fault for not locking things up better. A few weeks ago I went to a restaurant and left the top down on my car. It was right outside the window by where we usually sit but we ended up sitting in a booth on the other side of the restaurant. Somebody took the ashtray out of the car with about $4 in change in it. I didn’t lock the glove compartment, if the idiot had looked there he would have found about $20 in quarters in a bag I keep for car washes and air pumps.
I had my backpack and jacket stolen out of my mother’s car when I was in grade school. They also stole her car stereo, and rather amusingly ejected and left her Helen Reddy cassette tape on the seat.
Oddly enough, my brother had an 80s Regal stolen, too. It was stolen from the lot of my aunt’s restaurant in the shady part of downtown Cleveland (well er, that was most of Cleveland in the 90s). My cousin drove him around a bit until they found the car and they stole it back!
In the latter case, the bank quickly resolved it and refunded me my money having figured out that I probably didn’t buy breakfast in Chicago as I do every Sunday and then rush to Atlanta to buy gas a half hour later.
