So I finally got broken into

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Permalink Reply by MydogsMom on May 14, 2008 at 8:59pm

Sorry this happened to you. I was robbed when I lived near Old Town. They snatched my bike, a watch, and an mp3 player, all things in easy reach in our front room. Funny thing is, the guy rode by my house the next day on my bike!! My fiancee chased him down to a house about 6 blocks away and recovered my bike. The guy of course denied having the other items, claiming to have bought the bike for 20 bucks. (he also had the nerve to ask my fiancee for the 20 bucks!!).

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Permalink Reply by CK Barlow on May 15, 2008 at 7:19am

Yeah, I love the nerve of some people. One neighbor stole my garden hose (YES, our garden hose!) and another neighbor saw him do it, went to his house and confronted him and brought back the hose - and asked me for $10. Sigh...

I developed a likely naive hypothesis after seeing "Bowling for Columbine" that here in the U.S. (as opposed to Canada) we live with an undercurrent of desperation caused largely by knowing there's no real safety net -- universal health care and other such things that a nation of our wealth should be able to pull off with one hand tied behind its back.

So it makes me think much of our population is just downright desperate and can be expected to do desperate things. And I try to feel compassion and largely succeed, but there are times when I can't get there -- like when my partner and I were watching helplessly from our upstairs window at 2 a.m. while a guy tore the radio out of her car and ran down the street with it. I wanted to yell after him, "You are a coward and will never be anything but a coward." So angry... but I know what my parents would say: It's a radio. As long as you and Karen are safe, let him have the damned radio.

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Permalink Reply by ridin on May 15, 2008 at 10:21am

Table...? They had a table...? Cool...! :-D :-D :-D Seriously though...I suppose it's true that few of us have so little that there's not someone out there who won't take it. As chaotic as my last couple of years have been, I know I'm far more fortunate than most of the world's population.

You guys have some really good "I got broken into" stories--mydogsmom and the bike, and the garden hose from CK really stick in my mind. Some days it takes an active effort to remember that most of the population is really law-abiding, and just wants to wake up and have a good day.

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