This thread could get interesting if ivan “B&E” astikov ever shows up…
To the OP: Agreed. Thieves are loathesome pieces of shit.
I know someone with two gigantic, friendly Rotties. When I say gigantic, I mean these things are bigger than any Rottweilers I’ve ever seen; they have paws bigger than my fist and stand at least waist-high on me. I told her “You don’t have pets so much as livestock.”
They are gregarious and goofy, just wanting to lean on people (and it’s quite a lean!) and get attention.
As long as they’ve seen you accepted into the house by the pack leader, that is. Goofy as they are, these Rottweilers are a guarding breed deep down, and the difference in their approach is like night and day if you’re NOT approved by the human pack leader. This lady had a party once…lots of people showed up, and the dogs were just as happy and friendly as they could be as she greeted each arrival. Soon the dogs were getting all sorts of attention.
But a couple of late arrivals decided to sneak around the back and slip in through the kitchen and surprise the residents. They were friends, and among humans, a little surprise appearance would not be unwelcome.
But the Rottweilers had no truck with it. As the latecomers entered the kitchen unannounced and unnoticed amid all the activity, one of the dogs made a terrible noise, reared up, and bit the first trespasser in the face.
Of course it was a terrible misunderstanding. The dogs were not at fault; that’s what they’ve been bred to do. Fortunately the injury wasn’t serious – the dog may have pulled her punch at the last moment, realizing that the humans involved were not approving – and the injured party didn’t blame the dogs or the homeowner.
The point of my story is that some dogs – especially guarding breeds – treat welcomed guests and intruders entirely differently. These dogs made a clear distinction between all the people they’d seen allowed in by their human and the strangers that appeared suddenly among them.
Your thief might get just desserts after all, even from friendly dogs.
OK, I shouldn’t have left my jacket unattended in the bar when I was chatting to someone on the other side. But I left it with a whole bunch o’work folks, and situations conspired to keep me away a little longer, and they left. So thanks Mr. Thief for pinching my Blackberry, and making me fill out all sorts of awkward work forms explaining why I was at a bar at 2 am on the night of a training course.
Wait, what?
The bank is giving us our money back. Now all we have to deal with is anything we find on the credit reports…
Ivan’s banned, but he cheerfully admits he was a repeated house robber. Only stopped when, what was it, he accidentally robbed a mob guy’s house? Something like that.
He feels it was a perfectly legitimate occupation and really not something to be bothered about. If he could steal your stuff, it was your fault for not having a better security system.
Ivan’s banned? That’s cheery news on a cold day. off to ATMB
I figured it must be something like that, but does anybody have a link to where he admitted this?
WOW. And these were dogs who had never actually been trained as guard dogs? I’m amazed that they can keep track of who is “approved of” by the “pack leader” like that.
If the dog bite had been reported, would the authorities require the biting dog to be put to sleep in a case like this? I know I’ve heard that dogs who bite are required to be put to sleep, but surely that’s not the case for dogs who bite intruders, right? Even if the intruders are just the fake partygoing joker type of intruder?
This pales in comparison to the OP and others, but I’ve had two more mechanical pencils stolen from my desk. These were hidden in a drawer under a roll of paper. They weren’t anything special – Pentel Techniclicks – but they were nice pencils. The thief saw fit to leave two worn-looking pencils and a broken pencil; he/she even set them back neatly in a row. Nice. :mad:
The kicker to this: right next to the pencils was a set of headphones, left undisturbed. Also, on the desk, I have two calculators; one is a graphing model, the other is a high-end scientific. So why in the hell does someone keep stealing my pencils?
Yesterday someone smashed the window of my g/f’s car in broad daylight on a busy street and took off with her purse (which contained nothing but her cellphone and some random stuff of no value - spare socks, etc). If they’d opened the glove box they would have had her wallet.
I’m ticked at her for leaving anything that looks attractive to a thief in plain sight since there’s been a rash of such robberies around here lately and she knew it.
I’m boiling mad at the asshats who smashed out the window. Her 6 year old son was completely freaked out about the whole thing. I spent an hour with the ShopVac cleaning bits of broken glass up, she had to cancel her phone, deal with glass replacement, leave her car parked outside overnight with no window, etc. $165 to replace the window. Police report filed.
So fuck you, you punkass little petty criminal(s). If you ever do that when I’m around I will catch you and make you clean up the mess with your tongue.
I’m all for locking thieves away for good, seriously. Taking someone else’s stuff show you have absolutely know regard for society. Fuck you, rot in jail, and make the next person think twice. Think about how much money we could save if we didn’t constantly need to worry about people stealing stuff.
If you’re going to steal shit, at least steal something that’s insured, for fuck’s sake.
I’ve been robbed at gunpoint AND had my apartment broken into and ransacked in the span of 1.5 years.