Yeah, i’m sure u know where this is going. I left my bag out beside all our water bottles before our school x-country went out for our run, and stupidly, left my wallet and 110$ calculator in it.
Now of course, since i did that, the stupidity gods decided that since i left my bag there, today we should go for a longer run (bout 6km) than usual, that went much furthur away then we normally go. they also planned for a big fight involving about 50 guys from another school to be happening right during the time that we were gone.
So yeah, they scored a HUGE 16$ (wow), and a calculator. I could really care less about the cash, but the cards are what are pissing me off. my drivers licence, bank card(now cancled), health care card, social insurance card, dumb fuckers club card; those are just damn annoying to not have!!! and the calculator too i spose…
So Damn! but i mean really, is it too hard for kids to leave a bag alone when its sitting there, or must they go through it just cause its there and because they can??? what’s with kids these days?
Anyone else done somethin stupid like this? share here and now, please feel free to make me feel like less of an idiot.
BTW, any current/former petty thieves feel free to share what u do with the “usless” stuff that gets picked up, like is there any chance that if i search the park a bit more i might find some of that “other” stuff, or does it get carried a long ways away?
Thx
Well, I’ve never had a backpack or wallet stolen though I’ve lost plenty of them, and I’ve gotten plenty of jackets stolen. One of my bestest friends last year lost a whole semester’s worth of work a week or so before finals when he got his backpack stolen. That was pretty hard on him considering he had no notes to study for all of our finals and no notebooks to turn in for credit. So at least you’re not quite that bad off. Hope you feel at least a little better about it.
Most heartbreaking “please return” sign I’ve ever seen had some poor student asking for whomever stole her computer just to send a bunch of files to her on a disk because it was her graduate thesis. This was a few weeks before finals and maybe a week and a half before my own thesis was due, so time was short for this poor girl… I really hope she got it back.
If it makes you feel any better, I once had a roommate who stole everything I owned. I’m not using hyperbole when I say that…he literally stole everything but my drafting table, bed and dishes. Food, clothes, underwear, toiletries, art supplies, art PROJECTS, and the usual resaleable stuff: Stereo, tapes, CDs, TV and VCR. If it makes you feel any better, that which does not kill us really does make us stronger. And believe me, this comes from someone who is not religious at all so I’m not trying to cram something down your throat. It’s just one of those things that makes you sadder-but-wiser.
Whump,
What flavor calculator was it? I have a nice graphing calculator that I flunked Calc with in college sitting around gathering dust. I forget the model, but it cost a shitload when I bought it. I’d be willing to part with it if you need it for school. (You can have it) Otherwise, check E-bay for a cheap, good calc. Sorry to hear about your stuff!
I’ve got a stupid story on my stuff getting stolen once. I used to work at an arcade and would open up in the mornings. one morning I opened the gate and left my face plate to my car’s CD player and a couple of CD’s on one of the games so I could turn everything on. I had only left it there a minute or so and it was gone. god was I pissed after that. and the worst part is that when I called the CD company they told me it would cost like 170 bucks for a new face plate! geez that’s more that it cost in the first place!
I had my pocket picked at a high school football game once. The thief took my $12 and put the wallet in a mailbox, so I got it back like 2 weeks later.
Not that I am or ever was a thief, but I suspect the thief will remove anything of value from your bag and ditch it quickly. I would check all the trash cans and bushes near where it was, my guess is that all the non-cash and non-resellable items are still near the original crime site.
Last year, in February, someone stole the stickers off my license plates. Yeah…y’know, the little ones what tell when you have to renew your plates…I got pulled over for it. Showed the officer my pink slip and had to go in to get new stickers. Here’s the dumb part–the genius stole the stickers in February–the date on the stickers? MARCH.
Jeez. Not even smart enough to steal ones from a newly licensed car. Bought him/herself a whole month.
THAT is stupid.
wow, ALL ur stuff? that would be a might bit worse than my stuff, lol. just got to keep a sense of humor about it i spose… and it does make u wiser… it damn well better make me wiser
I feel somehow better, thanks guys Zette, my calc was a TI-83, one that absolutly everyone has to have, and therfore a big target for nabbing at my school. yeah, thad b great if ur willing to give it up
xizor, unfortunatly, if they know what they’re doing, everything in my wallet is resellable, espesially my social insurance #, they can get a tidy sum for that… nuts…
I had my wallet stolen in college while I was in the cafeteria - I set my tray down (with wallet on it) and turned to get a drink. When I turned back, literally 2 seconds later, it was gone. I did get my ID cards back, and there was no money in it, but it was still a hassle.
My roommate also had ALL of her textbooks stolen at the library when she left them unattended for a couple minutes. It was finals week, thus book buy-back time, so the thief made about $50 on the theft. Meanwhile roomie had to scrounge up replacement texts.
TI-83’s are a hot commodity in my school too. There were 27 of us with them, because we were in advanced math classes and got them free, but the point is, the school only got 12-15 back at the end of the year because of theft. The school also gave us Pentium 2 333mhz laptops. None stolen, but 4 or 5 broken because of jealousy by the students who didn’t have them. Someone kicked my LCD screen, and I almost had to pay $1400 to cover something I didn’t break. Luckily I didn’t. Oddly enough, my Physics book was stolen. Had to pay $56 for that. What the hell is the motivating force for that? Wallets I can see because you might just find someone with alot of money in it, but a physics book? Whatever.
I would have to say that the people that took your stuff wouldn’t resell your cards. If I really knew what I was doing, I suppose I would go for bigger and better things.
Wump,
Mines a TI-81, one step down from the 83. Can you use it? If so, drop me an e-mail. I’ll send it to you on Monday. If not, check E-bay for some cheap 83’s.
Zette
I worried about theft a lot my first semester in school. I was on crutches, and sometimes really had to leave my bag unattended for short periods of time (couldn’t carry it - too heavy).
I kept hoping that no one was desperate enough to steal my text books, but I guess a lot of people are. Thank god no one did take them.
I just had some Motha f**ka throw his slurpee at me while i was cruising on my motorcycle… i must have some real bad karma at the moment or somthin
:curls into a ball and hides from the evil world that awaits everytime i step out the door:
Your underwear??? That’s low when you can’t even trust your roommate with your underwear.
I had two wallets, a stereo and my cigarettes stolen out of my office a few years ago. The cigarettes hurt since I could have used one after finding out I had been robbed, but what really hurt was the disappearance of a picture of my grandmother I had in my wallet. That bothered me for a long time.
Oh wump, I’m sorry you’re having a bad time. That sloppy slurpy slinger will get his comeuppance.
One time, while riding home on my small motorcycle (I was in Junior High), two rednecks in a pickup truck poured beer on me as they drove by. My bike was so small, I simply couldn’t drive faster than they and it was a narrow, two-lane blacktop. I was ALL the way on the right, next to the grass. They were on my left and got close enough for the guy riding shotgun to pour his beer on my back. At least they didn’t run me off the road.
Years later, my new, bigger bike (Yamaha 650) was stolen by my roommate. He took the keys right out of my pants pocket while I was asleep. But the fucker got only fifty miles away when the rear tire went flat and he abandoned it. I got it back.
It’s just one of those things that makes you sadder-but-wiser.
geez that’s more that it cost in the first place!