i've been burglarized

ugh.

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a horrible feeling. really sorry to hear it, sending love!

oh no! what'd they take?

oh no!!! so sorry to hear andrew; that's awful. i hope nothing irreplaceable was lost.

only a couple easily grabbed high-ticket items were taken (laptop, camera)

i got off easy

it does not make me feel any better to acknowledge that i got off easy

renter's insurance i hope (didn't have it when it happened to me)

that is terrible. do you have insurance?

no insurance

police have taken a report; might be back at some point to look for prints

that is the worst. can you get a locksmith/glazier to come immediately – ? when i got burgled it made a huge (psychic) difference to know my perimeter was as secure as possible right afterward.

So sorry dude. My friend's laptop was stolen recently also.

the camera was a refurbished canon ae-1 that i learned on so it was more to me than it would be to anyone trying to hawk it

Oh man, sorry to hear this.

sending good vibes, dude

this sucks really bad.

take some solace in the fact that they are just things, and things can be replaced

thx u folks

1st floor apartment; i think my landlady (who lives upstairs) may have been home at the time. whoever broke in forced a small window (not a window i can imagine any adult person fitting thru) at the front of the house (facing the street) which is 9 feet above sidewalk level; it was probably unlocked. perhaps they broke in and heard something upstairs and split. they left thru the front door, which was unlocked when my boyfriend arrived home.

sorry to hear that. there's nothing worse than the feeling that someone has been inside your home -- happened to me when I was a kid, and like you, we "got off easy" but it still made sleeping at night difficult.

Glad you're alright though, hope the police can identify the culprit for you.

also, now you get to go camera shopping :)

oh man, so sorry elmo - it really does suck. my husband was burglarized 3 years ago, and they took his custom-built moutain bike, which he'd spent 5 years getting to his perfect specs :( he didn't have renter's insurance either, but got it right after which helped ease (a little) the paranoia that it would happen again.

ugh sorry to hear this elmo! I am mega paranoid about the safety of my new place, landlord is installing steel bars over every window except two small ones near the kitchen, now I'm going to be stressing out about those too. hope the police can get yer things back

Terrible news. Sorry about the insult to yr privacy and yr electonical belongings.

You could always troll through craigslist for a while and see if anything turns up? Not that the police are v helpful, I don't think, but if you wanted to maybe confront someone in the end...?

shit, sorry man

I've gone through this (albeit it a while ago now) and it really is horrible

police returned but no fingerprints found; oh well.

i really have no interest in confronting anyone about my stolen stuff; rebuilding a sense of security is really first priority right now

Yes, I thought you were prob more the kind of person to say, "No desire to prolong the aggro & distress, let's just say goodbye to our data now and get on with things."

An apt I lived in about 6 years ago was broken into once -- the one day my roommate took the lock off her window bars to lock up her bike (or so she claimed). I was away when it happened, came back to furniture pushed over, bookshelves emptied and on floor, things a mess...but as far as I could tell not ONE SINGLE THING was taken (I had no electronics, no drugs, and no cash, so...).

I kept waiting for that violated, un-secure feeling to come but honestly it seemed pretty much like any other day once the police got the hell out. Sometimes I think my feeler is broke.

I was away when it happened, came back to furniture pushed over, bookshelves emptied and on floor, things a mess...but as far as I could tell not ONE SINGLE THING was taken (I had no electronics, no drugs, and no cash, so...).

This exact thing happened to me. I almost felt insulted. I figured they were looking for cash or jewelry or drugs - small expensive things that they could put in their pocket.

happened to me years and years ago, didn't lose much -- a tv, a walkman, a few other things -- but it completely sucked. sorry. i know everyone always says the same thing, how much of a violation it feels like, but it's true. just the thought of other people in your space, fucking with your stuff, i remember i was pissed off about it for days. and for weeks afterward i kept an eye out on the street hoping to see someone with my bright-yellow walkman. (i don't know what i would've done if i'd spotted someone, but the revenge fantasies gave me some comfort.)

Yeah - the scene in Pee Wee's Big Adventure where he sits down on a bench after having his bike stolen and suddenly everyone who passes him is riding a bike, one after the other, almost like a mockery, is sooooo OTM

yeah I'm just trying to give myself space to go through it right now -- my mood is pretty labile and shifting from paranoia to sadness and anger.

my boyfriend is being #1 champion right now and I'm amazingly lucky to have him help me with this. the worst feeling right now is that yesterday was our anniversary and our plans got fucked so the intrusion feels that much more personal

I just found out that I was burglarized ten years ago. They found a list of all my stuff in the guy's apartment. Instead of informing me like professional police, they anonymously mailed me the list.

I can't wait until I am rich enough to leave this corrupt city, the street facts are they are too afraid to investigate any real crimes, all they do is hound black people about gangs all of the time.

Have a real problem, something disturbing like someone breaking into your apartment, they are snotty and arrogant and unhelpful.

Cities should be bankrupted until police stop being so arrogant. The facts are the civilians have to defend themselves most of the time. Police forces are overwhelmingly white and they don't see the irony in "managing" black people for 80% of their job.

The way sports teams and other entities of the wealthy expect us to honor and salute police officers (the rich have no need for them) is arrogant.

I am sick of the police, crime after crime and they don't do anything. Also some of them don't speak English very well.

not burglarized but some motherfuckers rang my bell and when i hit the video intercom the dude put his hand over it. i basically said "gtfo i'm calling the police" and it went dark. called the police, no one came, nothing happened. could have just been some dumb st paddy day fucks pranking the wrong apt number but not exactly feeling at ease atm

Came home from seeing Blonde Redhead last night to find our house had been burglarized. I think they might have still been in the house when we pulled up, because there wasn't alot stolen, thankfully. However the damage to the house + general fallout (change locks, etc) and being freaked about leaving the house again has been a real fucking drag.

Ugh that really sucks :/