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.
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.
That would be grizzly.
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.
I’m assuming the fact it’s exactly $500 means that’s his deductible, and insurance is picking up the rest.
Let’s not forget this little gem.
Just my own curiosity…if he did not steal anything, why do you assume burglar and not vandal?
They’ll be out a lot more than $500, but Clothy’s rooting for the burglars in their case.
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.
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?
The fact that he supports torturing people does.
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.
Oh, is there an update?
When did he get robbed?
What was stolen?
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.
Can we stay on topic?
In a world where only assholes are crime victims…
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?)
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.
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.