Came home from class to a kicked in front door...
Gotta love people. In all my years of living in rural northern ontario, I never thought this would happen. I get a call from my roommate today saying I should come home quick, we've been robbed.
Our place and another on the same street were hit today. I left for classes around 11am and my room mate came back around 6pm. Broad daylight!
Anyway, we've only been in this place (basement apartment in a ritzy lakefront cottage) since September, and never thought to get tennant insurance. In fact, up until October I was covered through my dad's house insurance, but that place was sold and now he's out of province so I'm sure it no longer applies.
The cops weren't (not surprisingly) useful. They said they'd check the hock shops in a few days. Yay. Thanks. They hinted that they might dust for prints then never mentioned it again. Lazy!
In total I figure I lost $1500 worth of stuff, my room mate about the same (they stole his laptop, both our digital cameras, MP3 players, battery chargers, our router etc) and our landlord's camcorder. What a pissoff. That said, it could have been much worse. In fact, this robber was a retard. He took my mp3 player without the case, my camera (DSC-T1) without the base to actually get pics off it, the router without the power brick... looks like he tried to steal my scanner as it's half off the shelf but the daunting USB cable was apparently too hard to unplug... ???
He RIPPED the LCD cord from the back of my roommate's computer. IE the VGA plug is still attached to the vid card, cord is not. Is that even repairable? It was the MDG Viewsonic price error monitor over Christmas.
I guess this is more of a rant than anything. All I can say is I'm happy he didn't steal my new X1900XTX that was sitting out in the open. That's probably why he didn't take my comp either - saw no value in something that was currently torn to bits
Problem is - he now knows what bigger items are here. I'm somewhat afraid he may return. In conclusion, if I had to be robbed, I'm glad it was this idiot who did it as my most prized posessions (save the camera) are still here.
People who do such things just disgust me
/End Rant
I guess I do have a question though. Is there any way we might see our stuff back again? Those that have been through this, have you ever seen your stuff again? I'm really wishing I had picked up tenant insurance. I don't suppose there's any way for me to be compensated for any of this is there?
Our place and another on the same street were hit today. I left for classes around 11am and my room mate came back around 6pm. Broad daylight!
Anyway, we've only been in this place (basement apartment in a ritzy lakefront cottage) since September, and never thought to get tennant insurance. In fact, up until October I was covered through my dad's house insurance, but that place was sold and now he's out of province so I'm sure it no longer applies.
The cops weren't (not surprisingly) useful. They said they'd check the hock shops in a few days. Yay. Thanks. They hinted that they might dust for prints then never mentioned it again. Lazy!
In total I figure I lost $1500 worth of stuff, my room mate about the same (they stole his laptop, both our digital cameras, MP3 players, battery chargers, our router etc) and our landlord's camcorder. What a pissoff. That said, it could have been much worse. In fact, this robber was a retard. He took my mp3 player without the case, my camera (DSC-T1) without the base to actually get pics off it, the router without the power brick... looks like he tried to steal my scanner as it's half off the shelf but the daunting USB cable was apparently too hard to unplug... ???
He RIPPED the LCD cord from the back of my roommate's computer. IE the VGA plug is still attached to the vid card, cord is not. Is that even repairable? It was the MDG Viewsonic price error monitor over Christmas.
I guess this is more of a rant than anything. All I can say is I'm happy he didn't steal my new X1900XTX that was sitting out in the open. That's probably why he didn't take my comp either - saw no value in something that was currently torn to bits
Problem is - he now knows what bigger items are here. I'm somewhat afraid he may return. In conclusion, if I had to be robbed, I'm glad it was this idiot who did it as my most prized posessions (save the camera) are still here.
People who do such things just disgust me
/End Rant
I guess I do have a question though. Is there any way we might see our stuff back again? Those that have been through this, have you ever seen your stuff again? I'm really wishing I had picked up tenant insurance. I don't suppose there's any way for me to be compensated for any of this is there?
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