Someone stole four hundred fucking dollars from my room

The BBQ Pit
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What the fucking fuck? I got up this morning and the first thing I was going to do was deposit the cash I had from waiting tables the other night and from my roommate paying me her share of the rent. I went to count it up, so I wouldn’t have to do it at the bank, and…it’s $126. Hmmm…that’s not right.

I KNOW I had between $80 and $100 from waiting tables (I took some out of the “wad” for spending cash, but don’t know the exact amount.) My roomie paid me $404, $100 was in twenties that were loose on my desk, the other $304 was in a small envelope. All the twenties are gone, I just have $26 in a ten, a five, and a mess of ones. The envelope has only a single $100 bill in it.

WHAT THE FUCK?! I immediately talked to my two sketchy roommates about it. They always have “friends” knocking on the door, asking to see them, and then leaving just a few minute later. Our neighbors have actually asked us if we started dealing drugs, and frankly I suspect the same thing. They are always late and short with the rent. Between the two of them, they owe almost $700 for last month’s rent, this month’s rent, and utilities. We were going to kick them out anyway, but this is the last straw. I don’t either of them did it, their not stupid, but it was clearly one of their “friends” that comes in from time to time. We can’t lock our doors if we’re not in them, since we have no keys for them, so anyone could have walked in, saw the money on my desk, and taken it when I was at work yesterday. They claim it could only have been one girl, since the other person who was here in that time frame yesterday couldn’t have done it (they were with her the entire time, plus she has LOTS of money, I am told.) Well, they called her and she denied it, but she has a history of stealing from them and then “finding” the items she stole (why they are friends with her, I have no idea.) I have no allusions that I’ll get my money back, but that was the last straw. I have told them they they need to find a new place to live, and that they have until the end of the month to do it.

Can’t I have good luck with roommates just once in my life? :mad:

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I’m not blaming you here and I mean, it was absolutely awful what happened to you, but. . .

if you know your roomies and their collective friends are sketchy and always coming and going through your unlocked home, why on EARTH would you leave loose cash just strewn about? I have a very competent roommate who I totally trust, we live in the good part of town, have few visitors, and always double lock our doors-- I still wouldn’t leave a bunch of cash sitting all randomly on the table.

That said, kick out the losers and good luck with everything. Nothing’s worse than that feeling of violation after being stolen from.

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[QUOTE=bouv]
What the fucking fuck? I got up this morning and the first thing I was going to do was deposit the cash I had from waiting tables the other night and from my roommate paying me her share of the rent. I went to count it up, so I wouldn’t have to do it at the bank, and…it’s $126. Hmmm…that’s not right.

I KNOW I had between $80 and $100 from waiting tables (I took some out of the “wad” for spending cash, but don’t know the exact amount.) My roomie paid me $404, $100 was in twenties that were loose on my desk, the other $304 was in a small envelope. All the twenties are gone, I just have $26 in a ten, a five, and a mess of ones. The envelope has only a single $100 bill in it.

WHAT THE FUCK?! I immediately talked to my two sketchy roommates about it. They always have “friends” knocking on the door, asking to see them, and then leaving just a few minute later. Our neighbors have actually asked us if we started dealing drugs, and frankly I suspect the same thing. They are always late and short with the rent. Between the two of them, they owe almost $700 for last month’s rent, this month’s rent, and utilities. We were going to kick them out anyway, but this is the last straw. I don’t either of them did it, their not stupid, but it was clearly one of their “friends” that comes in from time to time. We can’t lock our doors if we’re not in them, since we have no keys for them, so anyone could have walked in, saw the money on my desk, and taken it when I was at work yesterday. They claim it could only have been one girl, since the other person who was here in that time frame yesterday couldn’t have done it (they were with her the entire time, plus she has LOTS of money, I am told.) Well, they called her and she denied it, but she has a history of stealing from them and then “finding” the items she stole (why they are friends with her, I have no idea.) I have no allusions that I’ll get my money back, but that was the last straw. I have told them they they need to find a new place to live, and that they have until the end of the month to do it.

Can’t I have good luck with roommates just once in my life? :mad:
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You might not get your money back, but get rid of those losers. Seriously. In my younger days I had roommates that while not thieves, were untrustworthy and only made my life harder. One of them used to come up with every excuse in the book in order to skip his part of the rent. (it was my house and I had a mortgage to pay). The final straw was when he told me he didn’t have the money to pay, but he’d get it as soon as possible…*while he was packing to go on a weekend vacation to the beach!!! *He thought I was kidding, but he got a big surprise to find his stuff outside on the sidewalk when he got back.

I’ve had good roomies though…strangely enough they were all girls. (I don’t mean the hanky panky kind either).

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[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
If you know your roomies and their collective friends are sketchy and always coming and going through your unlocked home, why on EARTH would you leave loose cash just strewn about? I have a very competent roommate who I totally trust, we live in the good part of town, have few visitors, and always double lock our doors-- I still wouldn’t leave a bunch of cash sitting all randomly on the table.
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It’s a combination of being trusting and just not thinking about it. I’ve always lived in safe neighborhoods, never been robbed, grew up in a rural environment. It’s just not in my normal mindset to hide all my money and lock all my doors (well, we do lock the outside door (the only one we can lock.)) It was there for less than six hours (well, more than that, but only six hours that I wasn’t in the room with it.)

Obviously I’m not going to leave it around again, but I’d like to think I can trust my own things in my own room not to get stolen while my roommate are here. I mean, what’s next? Taking my DVDs that our on the shelf downstairs? My Nintendo Wii or my roommates PS2? I guess everytime I leave I should disconnect them from the TV and lock them in my room (which I can’t do anyway?) If they were dead set on stealing something (which it seems they were,) then something else would have gone missing. My LCD monitor, my phone, my laptop, or one of any other small yet expensive things I own that I can’t very well hide everytime I leave.

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Really sorry to hear that. It would have bought a lot of Feist CD’s.

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I don’t even like to leave money lying around my house and I live alone!

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Sounds like you just learned a very expensive lesson.

I’m with MikeG on this one.

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[QUOTE=bouv]

Obviously I’m not going to leave it around again, but I’d like to think I can trust my own things in my own room not to get stolen while my roommate are here. **I mean, what’s next? **
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Bolding mine.

What’s next? Kicking the losers out and locking your front door (hell, you don’t even need to lock your bedroom door). After those two things happen, you shouldn’t have another problem.

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[QUOTE=bouv]
I mean, what’s next?
Taking my DVDs that our on the shelf downstairs? My Nintendo Wii or my roommates PS2? I guess everytime I leave I should disconnect them from the TV and lock them in my room (which I can’t do anyway?) If they were dead set on stealing something (which it seems they were,) then something else would have gone missing. My LCD monitor, my phone, my laptop, or one of any other small yet expensive things I own that I can’t very well hide everytime I leave.
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Yes, indeed, those valuable things will be next.

Possibly not the games, since they are wired to the TV and would be missed quickly. But your cellphone or laptop? Sure, easy to pickup and resell, and claim ignorance ‘Your cellphone? Nah, I haven’t seen it. Are you sure you left it on the table here? Maybe you left it at work? …’

And no, you can’t hide everything everytime you leave.
Which is why you make the “sketchy roommates” leave.

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[QUOTE=bouv]
It’s a combination of being trusting and just not thinking about it. I’ve always lived in safe neighborhoods, never been robbed, grew up in a rural environment. It’s just not in my normal mindset to hide all my money and lock all my doors (well, we do lock the outside door (the only one we can lock.)) It was there for less than six hours (well, more than that, but only six hours that I wasn’t in the room with it.)
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We are all products of our environments, and your environment changed…and sadly, (in this particular case) you must change with it.

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I’m afraid I’d have hidden cash in an envelope well enough it would have taken half the next day just to find it myself.

Practice the Burned once, shame on them. Burned twice… thing though. It’s sound advice.

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[QUOTE=bouv]
…she has a history of stealing from them and then “finding” the items she stole…:mad:
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Calm down, it could’ve been a practical joke.

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I once lived in a house with a few rather seedy housemates. Not only were both chronicley late with the rent, but what money they did manage to have was spent on either alcohol or dope.

  One night I came home from work to find someone whom I didn't know, in my room, looking at my stuff. Noticing me, he started asking me how much certain things were worth.  Later, one of the housemates approached me and told me he had promised this guy I would give him a ride home (I had a car, my housemate did not).   Turns out the guy was a drug dealer, and he didn't need a ride home, as much as he did a way to get to his supplier. 

I wasn't the one with his name on the lease, that was another housemate, who later told me that of the six people living there at the time, I was the only one who didn't owe him money when it was all over with.  I decided that it would be better to move out rather than face a situation with deadbeats, addicts and later visits from drug dealers. I moved out the next day.
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[QUOTE=JohnBckWLD]
Calm down, it could’ve been a practical joke.
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I knew someone was going to mention this. :rolleyes:

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[QUOTE=JohnBckWLD]
Calm down, it could’ve been a practical joke.
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Assuming is the case, it’s not remotely fucking funny, and if it were me I’d tear the person a new one the next time I saw them.

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[QUOTE=Jayn_Newell]
Assuming is the case, it’s not remotely fucking funny, and if it were me I’d tear the person a new one the next time I saw them.
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I think they’re referring to a thread a couple of months ago where an old, established poster took some money from a friend for a joke, and didn’t tell her he had it when she called about it. It went badly (the thread and the joke).

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[QUOTE=featherlou]
I think they’re referring to a thread a couple of months ago where an old, established poster took some money from a friend for a joke, and didn’t tell her he had it when she called about it. It went badly (the thread and the joke).
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I must’ve missed that one. It just hit a nerve because I knew a guy in high school who would pull the same prank with purses, and he did it to me once. I was freaked right the fuck out thinking I’d lost it, and then quite pissed when I realised that he’d left it in an empty classroom where anyone could have taken it for real.

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[QUOTE=bouv]
We can’t lock our doors if we’re not in them, since we have no keys for them,
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For about $15, you can get a new locking doorknob and install it in 15 minutes. And if anyone wants to know why you want to lock up your room, you can say “Because some miserable lowlife sociopathic scum stole $400 out of there, that’s fucking why!!!” very loudly.

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Are your current roommates still the ones you mentioned back in this thread, bouv?

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[QUOTE=Cunctator]
Are your current roommates still the ones you mentioned back in this thread, bouv?
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No, that was the last set of roommates. I sure know how to pick 'em, huh? :rolleyes:

I AM kicking that out, did you miss that part? And we do lock the front door, but that wouldn’t have helped in this case, now would it? I’m convinced that no matter what, something would have been stolen. Maybe not as important as the $400 was, but certainly something valuable that I need. I couldn’t exactly have see into the future when I took them in as roommates, and they didn’t tell me they were skeckty and had thieves for friends. I’ll make sure to ask the next potential roommate that.