# I pit burglars **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 19, 2017, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535 "2017-01-19T12:04:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/41 "2017-01-19T17:18:59Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It was burglarized, remember? > [@k9bfriender](#): > > I like schools that are not burglarized. SAD! Please, burgled sounds better and fits more easily within Twitter’s 144 character limit and allows an extra 4 characters for more commentary. But seriously, Clothahump, I’m sorry that this happened to you. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/42 "2017-01-19T17:25:17Z")
> [@BorgHunter](#): > > I agree with this. It seems awfully petty to cheer someone’s school being burglarized just because that person happens to A) disagree with you politically, and B) be a jerk about it. Even jerks don’t deserve to be victims of crimes. I agree, and almost regret my attempt at some humor in this thread. . . . however, it does feel a bit galling for someone to spend a lot of energy intentionally acting like an ass to other people on this board, and then turn around and implicitly ask those same people for sympathy. A broken window is a low-stakes, low-impact piece of suffering, and if folks want to take this opportunity to say, “how dare you call on us for comfort, after the way you’ve treated us,” well, I don’t blame them too much. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/43 "2017-01-19T17:28:39Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > It might have been a bear. That would be grizzly. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/44 "2017-01-19T17:32:03Z")
> [@BorgHunter](#): > > Mere semantics. You’ll excuse me if I don’t see how mocking the victim of a crime is a response worth celebrating, no matter the jerkishness of the victim. Monsters, abyss, etc. Had harm come to him or anyone else, it would be a different matter. A few hundred bucks in property damage, I feel no need to bleed sympathy, especially as it really ought to be covered by some sort of liability bond. To friends, I would give sympathy, to strangers, I could commiserate. Clothy, the best I can do is pity, and it’s the pity I feel for someone who lies with dogs, and complains of fleas. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/45 "2017-01-19T17:34:20Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > Why do you have to pay for the school’s window? Do you own the building, and not have insurance on it? I’m assuming the fact it’s exactly $500 means that’s his deductible, and insurance is picking up the rest. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/46 "2017-01-19T17:40:08Z")
> [@Grim\_Render](#): > > Isn’t the OP the same person who [has nothing for people who are losing their healthcare with the ACA](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=815247&page=2)? But a broken window is a tragedy ? Let’s not forget this little gem. > [@I'm realizing Texas is different.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-realizing-texas-is-different/647384/18): > > Well, I’m a native Houstonian and I remember the Katrina refugees that hit the ground immediately asking how to sign up for welfare. I also am aware that in the areas where FEMA located Katrina refugees, the crime rates went up significantly. That one thing forced me to relocate my place of business because I couldn’t get customers to come into the area, especially after there was a brutal, senseless murder right across the street. > > Your statement is basically bullshit. Under Texas law, hospital ERs cannot refuse to treat emergency cases. I’ll grant that they move you to Ben Taub or John Sealy as quickly as possible, but they will treat you. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/47 "2017-01-19T17:40:51Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Some sorry little shithead broke into my school this morning at 0328. He didn’t steal anything but it’s gonna cost us 500 clams that we can’t afford to fix the window he came through. :mad::mad: Just my own curiosity…if he did not steal anything, why do you assume burglar and not vandal? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/48 "2017-01-19T17:43:14Z")
> [@Grim\_Render](#): > > Isn’t the OP the same person who [has nothing for people who are losing their healthcare with the ACA](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=815247&page=2)? But a broken window is a tragedy ? They’ll be out a lot more than $500, but **Clothy** ’s rooting for the burglars in their case. ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/49 "2017-01-19T17:46:56Z")
Wise man say that man who farts in church sits in his own pew. Guess you’re going to have to grow up and deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/50 "2017-01-19T17:54:30Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Whine whine whine. [Suck it up, buttercup](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=816352). So his pitting the butthurt snowflakes that can’t wrap their minds around a Trump Presidency makes it OK to gloat about his getting robbed? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/51 "2017-01-19T17:55:49Z")
The fact that he supports torturing people does. ---
**Author:** ![Grim\_Render](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Grim\_Render](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Render)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/52 "2017-01-19T18:01:49Z")
Really it is the empathy gulf of a person who has no sympathy for people losing their healthcare, but is so fragile about things affecting him personall that a broken window is a disaster -because it happened to **him!**. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/53 "2017-01-19T18:08:11Z")
> [@Grim\_Render](#): > > Really it is the empathy gulf of a person who has no sympathy for people losing their healthcare, but is so fragile about things affecting him personall that a broken window is a disaster -because it happened to **him!**. And specifically who tells people here who may well be losing their healthcare and be facing very serious consequences that they are “butthurt” and special snowflakes, and that they should just suck it up and get over it. Then when someone points out an opposing viewpoint, he simply tells them to “fuck off”. Really, really hard to muster sympathy when karma bites him in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/54 "2017-01-19T18:12:55Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > So his pitting the butthurt snowflakes that can’t wrap their minds around a Trump Presidency makes it OK to gloat about his getting robbed? Oh, is there an update? When did he get robbed? What was stolen? ---
**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/55 "2017-01-19T18:13:40Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > So his pitting the butthurt snowflakes that can’t wrap their minds around a Trump Presidency makes it OK to gloat about his getting robbed? _I_ don’t think it makes it okay, but I’m a small-c christian like that. It certainly makes it _easier_. Schadenfreude has a name for a reason. I don’t think you are doing a good job of claiming the moral high ground by echoing language like “butthurt snowflakes” and “can’t wrap their minds around.” I was pleasantly surprised that C didn’t use this incident as the basis for cheap political point-scoring; you, while offering no sympathy to C, have gone ahead and done that. Mote, beam, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/56 "2017-01-19T18:18:01Z")
Can we stay on topic? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/57 "2017-01-19T18:23:55Z")
In a world where only assholes are crime victims… ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/58 "2017-01-19T18:25:20Z")
He said he didn’t get robbed. He had a window broken. That sucks. Worse shit than that has probably happened to a few Dopers today who didn’t come here all butthurt and bellyachin’. (I think that’s my first use of the term “butthurt”. OP, is it ok that I borrowed that?) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/59 "2017-01-19T18:29:22Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Surely the school has insurance to cover this sort of thing. If not, why not? Ditto security cameras! Insurance has $1000 deductible. This comes straight out of our pocket. And we got him on camera, but because there was only ambient outside light, we haven’t got a clear image. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535/60 "2017-01-19T18:31:55Z")
> [@Grim\_Render](#): > > Isn’t the OP the same person who [has nothing for people who are losing their healthcare with the ACA](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=815247&page=2)? But a broken window is a tragedy ? What do you mean, I have nothing? The whole point of that post was pointing out that Obamacare screwed everyone over. Guess that sailed over your head. And no, the broken window is not a tragedy. It’s an annoyance, nothing more. Much like your post. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-burglars/777535.md?page=4)