I got a call from my boyfriend’s mother this morning asking if he had left his phone at my house. He had spent the night at my house last night, and I knew that he didn’t have his phone with him because he left it at his house before he went to work and came straight to my house when he got off.
He’s misplaced his phone before, so I wasn’t too worried about it at first. Then she told me that, while searching for his phone, they found a sawed-off baseball bat under his couch. He doesn’t have a sawed-off baseball bat. So I thought that was kind of odd.
My boyfriend called me about 15 minutes later, and I asked him about the baseball bat. He said that the top 6 inches were sawed off, and that the reason someone would saw off the top of a baseball bat is to take weight off of the top, so they can swing it faster and harder. He also said that there was a blue bracelet wound around the bottom of the bat, like a woven hemp bracelet.
If this was a robbery attempt, they only took the phone. They could have taken his TV, his computer, his guitars, or numerous other things, but nothing else was missing. I really think that someone may have done this to hurt him, and I shudder to think what might have happened if he had been home last night. He lives a couple of miles down a gravel road, basically in the middle of nowhere, with no neighbors. It had to have been somebody that knew him well.
He has no enemies. He’s very likable and I can’t think of anything off the top of my head that he might have done to anger someone.
raz, I just wanted to pop back in and apologize for making a joke in this thread. It’s obvious that you’re afraid for your boyfriend. I hope you find some answers about this.
This reminds me of the time a co-worker of mine found a knife on her desk. A big hunting knife, in its sheath, just lying there. At first, she thought it was odd, but then others chimed in, asking her if she had any enemies, etc., etc., the police was brought in, “just to be sure”.
Then the guy from another cubicle called in to ask if they had seen the knife he had lent another co-worker (who had taken a holiday) for cutting birthday-cake with. :rolleyes:
My point is, if that bat is a valuable weapon, a perp would not leave it there intentionally. I think it’s some kind of mix-up.
He lives alone, and no, he doesn’t have a sawed-off baseball bat, nor does he wear blue bracelets. We know it wasn’t under the couch before because he’s always losing things under the couch, like his phone (which is why they were looking under the couch) and TV remotes and whatnot.
If it makes you feel any better, I came back from vacation one time and found a pair of used, dirty, white men’s socks and a cheap bullwhip under my bed. Neither my boyfriend or I have had white socks in a decade or so (we’re goths), and the bullwhip was not of a quality I would even consider buying. No idea what happened there. But, three years later, nothing has come of it.
It’s entirely possible that someone is playing a prank.
For street fighting, full-length baseball bats are too long for effective fighting. Your first hit would really hurt, but if the opponent closes in it becomes unweldy. They have bracelets or loops of cord / ropes to go over the wrist so that the bat can’t be taken away and used against them. The loop needs to be pretty tight. A friend in high school pulled a baseball bat out in a fight, had it taken away from him and got clobbered. :rolleyes:
Don’t know about the blue hemp part.
raz, I know that it seems scary to have someone break in, but there may be more to the story. If someone were really trying to scare your boyfriend, I think they would be more direct about it.
Also, since he found the bat when he was with his mother, he may not want her to know that it was really his. How old is he?
Was there any signs of a break in? Wouldn’t want to accuse him of lying, but there are a few different possibilities here.
I never thought that perhaps someone was pulling a prank. He did already get a new phone and had his old one shut off though.
I realize there may be more to the story, but it’s hard to look at a bigger picture when the only thing that’s going through my head is “someone was trying to hurt him”.
He’s 21, and very honest. He wouldn’t hide something as dumb as having a baseball bat from me or his mother or anyone else. He’s quite freaked out about it as well, and I’ve told him that I didn’t want to stay at his house at night until they figured out what was going on. Also, I cleaned his house for him about a week ago and never saw a bat. His house is tiny, too, so something like that would be pretty obvious, as there aren’t many places to hide things there.
It seems much more likely that there is a more benign explanation. Your boyfriend may be lying for some reason, perhaps to protect someone else (even very honest people do some very wierd things, and sometimes lie about things that don’t matter at all). Or maybe an aquaintance brought the bat over for some reason and left it behind accidentally, or stashed it deliberately so that it wouldn’t be found by their mother. Hell, the damn thing could have been hidden in the couch for ages and just now fell out of the bottom. Or someone could have been playing a prank.
