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[โ€“] AceSLive@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

People broke into our house while we were upstairs with our 1 week old baby, at 1am. They took our keys and our car. We have 4 kids. No way to get them to school or me to work.

Turned out they were aged between 15 and 17 and got a slap on the wrist. We got an insurance payout and a different car.

Ridiculous.

[โ€“] HUMAN_TRASH@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

About 20 years ago, when I was in middle school, some high schoolers stole a game (Halo for xbox) from me while I was walking home. I had borrowed it from someone at school.

[โ€“] cashmaggot@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

Also fuck them.

[โ€“] Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

An umbrella...

Some fellow student named Jordan did it years ago...

I'm still pissed and wondering where wtf he lives

[โ€“] cashmaggot@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuck Jordan, let's go jump his ass =P!

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[โ€“] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I took my bike out for a trail ride, decided to stop at home for a quick refill of water before going out again. I was in my house for under 3 minutes and my bike was stolen from my enclosed front porch.

Reported it with serial number to the police and a stolen bike website but never heard anything back.

I was in college and had to start leaving for classes 20 minutes earlier. I was pretty angry at the time. Now l'll never leave a bike out of my sight unless it's locked indoors or with two U-locks.

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[โ€“] Karmmah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We were on holiday at a camp ground when I was child. I had my Nintendo DS with me and I think during this vacation I even bought a carrying case and some games for it with my own money. During the day we would ride bycicles to other places so I left it in the tent buried under some stuff. One day when we came back i could not find it. At first I thought it could be stolen or my dad tried to hide it from me, because I played with it quite a lot which he wasn'ta fan of. So I tried to look through his stuff without him noticing to find it. But i didn't find it and since i am quite reserved i didnt want to bring it up that it was missing.

In the end I think someone at that camp ground must have seen me use it and then waited for us to leave to steal it, since nothing else was stolen.

After that every time someone asked me why I wasn't playing as much as before I told them that I didn't feel like it. And I'm not sure whether they figured it out to this day.

[โ€“] cashmaggot@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I said something like that a second ago to the person who had their iPod stolen. Probably someone saw someone using it and ganked it. A couple of years ago my gal's hair dresser went on a hike with her boyrfriend and he brought his switch and left it in the car (idk if it was seen or not). But they broke the windows and stole it. And I later heard trail heads are easy targets for scummy people.

[โ€“] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone stole my digital camera when I was a kid. I left it near the window at the place we were staying at for our vacation and someone must have grabbed it from the outside while we were gone. I was probably pretty mad about it back then. Nothing since, that I can remember right now at least.

[โ€“] cashmaggot@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Hey, that's pretty good! I mean in the grand scheme of things.

[โ€“] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone stole my car's owner manual.

[โ€“] cashmaggot@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But not...the car? Eh...lucky?

[โ€“] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And nothing else, not that i had much else in the car, but i had a dashcam and like a medical kit they didn't touch. Super weird.

[โ€“] cashmaggot@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Had a friend say that someone broke into their car to take sunglasses and nothing else. You know...the methed out heart wants, want the methed out heart wants.

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

my father gave me a lesson once when my bike was stolen when i was a child. he told me that they did it because they felt they had to; not because they wanted to target me and that remaining angry about it was unproductive because they will never know nor care.

i try to apply that same lesson every time someone wrongs me.

[โ€“] cashmaggot@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

That's some good stuff. Like it's on them. It's why I try not to get upset if someone's having a mood swing or something. Cause that's on them, not me. But it can be harder to practice the more toes that get stepped on.

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, about five minutes ago. It happens. I'd rather extend trust and sometimes be disappointed than live in paranoia.

[โ€“] cashmaggot@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago

=(

I don't know what I want to live in. Cause I have been open as a book, and gotten jacked up. Being closed off is most certainly not healthy either. And things are things. But I really wish people stayed in their lanes.

[โ€“] olorin99@kbin.earth 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Back in primary school someone stole one of my bakugan out of my bag. It was the snake trap which folded into a cylinder instead of a sphere like the normal ones. So sad.

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[โ€“] nivenkos@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, had a drug dealer burgle our apartment (just an opportunistic thing, spare keys had been left outside by a friend who was moving). Fortunately no-one was in, but it sucked to have to deal with all the damage and security.

We eventually tracked them down when they sold some stuff though and they were actually arrested and we got a few things back.

It was awesome the police actually raided them. Unfortunately the new government released them as prisoners with "non-violent" offences.

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