Got Robbed.

[galfordo]

this is what happened.

your roommate's bf had been over & seen inside your room and thought 'man i want all this game stuff' and had eventually convinced his gf to help him steal your stuff.. so... it was all planned out.

she let him know the best time to come rob when no one would be home[probably even gave him all your schedules so he could plan out the best time/day to do it], then that day the roommate left the window open and signaled the bf some way letting him know the coast is clear and what window to go through.

and yes, she even told him to mess up her room[or the other roommate's room?] just to make it look like it wasn't directed to you.

oh, and considering just your game/dvd stuff is gone, all the items are either at the bf's house now or at one of his friend's house' for em to play. the gf[roommate] most likely's going over there when she goes out with her bf to play with the stuff to.

i'd suggest going to a surveilance store and see what sort of inexpensive hidden cameras/listening devices you could setup in your roommate's room cause they'll most likely whisper to each other about the event in person or over the phone on occasion.. or just setup a hidden cam in your own room incase of any future thefts.

Sounds plausible to me.



P.S. WakuWakuWeirdo, you're not allowed in my house.

 

[ST-V]

I got robbed during my senior year in high school by a couple of people who I considered to be my best friends at one time.

What did they take? Stupid shit: CD's, loose change (?), a lighter. None of my games were touched, oddly enough.

 

[MilkManX]

Get Renters insurance.

I have been robbed before. It sucks.

 

[Crissaegrim]

This all has me worried. Anybody know of any durable and lockable home furniture, like tv stands, av cabinets and the like?

 

[genjuro1]

this is what happened.

your roommate's bf had been over & seen inside your room and thought 'man i want all this game stuff' and had eventually convinced his gf to help him steal your stuff.. so... it was all planned out.

she let him know the best time to come rob when no one would be home[probably even gave him all your schedules so he could plan out the best time/day to do it], then that day the roommate left the window open and signaled the bf some way letting him know the coast is clear and what window to go through.

and yes, she even told him to mess up her room[or the other roommate's room?] just to make it look like it wasn't directed to you.

oh, and considering just your game/dvd stuff is gone, all the items are either at the bf's house now or at one of his friend's house' for em to play. the gf[roommate] most likely's going over there when she goes out with her bf to play with the stuff to.

i'd suggest going to a surveilance store and see what sort of inexpensive hidden cameras/listening devices you could setup in your roommate's room cause they'll most likely whisper to each other about the event in person or over the phone on occasion.. or just setup a hidden cam in your own room incase of any future thefts.

Sorry about your stuff man.

You should really consider what WakuWakuWeido has said. I've been and know people who were screwed by people who thought were their "friends". Sh*t, I know people who have been screwed by family members.

If you live in an envirionment were strangers are coming in constantly getting high, and drunk, something like this was bound to happen eventually.

You live and you learn man. I suggest you move out of that envirionment. If not, at the very least get a lock on your bedroom door.

Good luck.

 

[FeelGood]

i guess we know where you will be looking first whenever you see someone you or a roomate knows: their feet.

what kinda shoes like high tops? are they popular? either way if you see them on someone its time for a pistol whip or 2, followed by a stern MUNGing (do it with authority).

 

[SilverAngel]

Thats is horrible im sorry to hear it. Do your roommates know all the people that were at the party? I seriously hope you check this guy/girl/group of people and get your stuff back!

 

[Steve]

Subcons, sorry to hear that. (BTW I dig your avatar. Your name sounds familiar. Aren't you a big shmup fan?)

I've been robbed twice so I know the pain and torment of coming home and seeing your shit missing. Fucking lowlives need to fucking die and burn in the fiery pits of hell.

Your story makes me glad I'm still living at home. Not to hate on roommates or anything but yeah, sharing a place with 2 dudes -- you better trust them like family. Anyways, good luck with everything.

EDIT: OK two girls. So you're like Jack Tripper? That may sound cool but beware... girls can get caught up with some trippy guys. The more outgoing and social the girl, the more potential trouble she brings home. Personally, I can't imagine leaving my Saturn collection in a place where I got 2 girl roomies and they got BFs coming over all the time and parties where ppl get drunk. I get anal if my brother even touches my Saturn. So yeah... your situation seemed to be asking for it... not that you deserved it. But yeah, it goes with the territory. I would be very weary of my 2 roomies now.

I saw Robin Williams's THE FINAL CUT last night in the theatre, and he's right. "No matter how much you trust someone, you never know when something goes awry."

Just coz you think they never could do it, doesn't mean that's the reality...

 

[TheBigBB]

Subcons, sorry to hear that. (BTW I dig your avatar. Your name sounds familiar. Aren't you a big shmup fan?)

I've been robbed twice so I know the pain and torment of coming home and seeing your shit missing. Fucking lowlives need to fucking die and burn in the fiery pits of hell.

Your story makes me glad I'm still living at home. Not to hate on roommates or anything but yeah, sharing a place with 2 dudes -- you better trust them like family. Anyways, good luck with everything.

He's sharing a place with two women.

Actually I would be more wary of living with two women, especially if they were bringing home unknown guys all the time...

 

[Mike Shagohod]

It is for reasons like this that I have never hosted a "NEO:GEO / Gaming In General / Movie" Party at Natorm H.Q., and after reading this, I probably never will. Sorry to hear that you got robbed by people you might have trusted man, that just plain flat sucks.

MERCENARY X99

 

[K_K]

you should set up wacky booby traps like in home alone and when they bust in they get all beat around and run away. that would be good fun. TAKE THAT HARRY AND MARV!!!

 

[Arcademan]

Sorry to hear about you getting robbed like that. That totally sucks! Sounds like someone cased the joint during that party and then helped themselves to your stuff. Hope they catch the person or people involved and deal some cold, hard JUSTICE!!!

 

[syringe]

Thanks for reminding me why I'm going to live alone once I transfer out of state (or upstate) this spring.

PS. Commuting to College by train on a daily basis sucks ass....don't ever do it.

 

[super-saiya-jin]

here is what id do:
-move out or get a lock
-beat the shit out of this boyfriend and make him confess
-get your games back and then move if u havent already done it

 

[seba_boi]

Holy Crap!!!!... That sucks a lot... You don't need to be told that for shure....

Makes me scared now (I feel bad for your Criterion, man those are pricey)...

 

[RAINBOW PONY]

never fucking live with girls, they go through your shit so much, and then there's the asshole guys they bring home, who probably go through your shit too. i'd trust a guy room mate more than a girl roomie, unless she was lesbian, then i'd rather room with her.

 

[subcons]

Thanks for the comments. I have definitely learned from this experience.

Yeah Steve, big shmup fan here. They took all my PS2 import shmups and my monitor that I use for TATEing. That's what pisses me off the most. The other stuff is easily replaceable. But my shmups are what my game collection is focused on.

Just to clarify, the party we had was last night. The robbery took place yesterday evening, before the party.

As for my roommates, I'm convinced they aren't actually in on it, but they're probably closer to the person that did it than I am. I discussed it with my roommate (roomy A) this morning about the other roommate's (roomy B) boyfriend, and I'm pretty much convinced that he did it or knows who did. It just adds up to him.

Roomy A said that she called him yesterday around 3 or 4PM multiple times. He didn't call her back until 7PM. She asked if he might know anyone that might have done it as he knows a lot of people that are into games and such. He said he didn't and that he didn't even know I owned those games. Now get this: I had a conversation with him about Ikaruga in my room, standing right in front of my games no less. He mentioned Ikaruga and asked if I'd heard of it. I said I had and told him about my shooter collection. I showed him the Ikaruga DVD as he'd never seen it. Then I went into a conversation about Cave shmups and told him about them as he'd never heard of them before either. So he lied about that. On top of this, he used to live here with roomy A who's lived here for the past three years (this was before roomy B moved in). He also just got back with roomy B recently after a bad break up some months back. And whoever did it, didn't touch roomy B's room. It's just too coincidental.

He claims that he was with his band mate practicing that afternoon. I can't contact this person because he has no phone and I don't even know him.

So, I'm left thinking it was him. If not him, he knows who did it.

What the hell can I do? I can't blatantly ask him all these questions. I'm trying to get more solid info on this. If I know for a fact that he's involved, I would ask him. But as of now I've got nothing concrete.

Suggestions? And seriously.

 

[mvsplayer]

get a private investigator, or show all what has been typed as one. you can set this fuck up and catch him red handed, just have to get a investigater involed, may cost you about 500$ but its way lesss than your loss and you may get your shit back. also alot of p.i.'s i know are mean ass hell and will probally beat the truth out of him/her and who ever else is was involed.

good luck.

 

[TheBigBB]

If I were you, I'd raise all hell with roomie B and get into a major confrontation with her boyfriend and whoever else I could find.

 

[DevilRedeemed]

yeah, either get a PI involved (definetly worth considering), or devise a plan of action - track down this 'band' and see where they jam - if it was this geezer, then he took the goods to play with his mates. No doubt about it. sounds like it could have involved more than the one person.

Thanks for the comments. I have definitely learned from this experience.

Yeah Steve, big shmup fan here. They took all my PS2 import shmups and my monitor that I use for TATEing. That's what pisses me off the most. The other stuff is easily replaceable. But my shmups are what my game collection is focused on.

Just to clarify, the party we had was last night. The robbery took place yesterday evening, before the party.

As for my roommates, I'm convinced they aren't actually in on it, but they're probably closer to the person that did it than I am. I discussed it with my roommate (roomy A) this morning about the other roommate's (roomy B) boyfriend, and I'm pretty much convinced that he did it or knows who did. It just adds up to him.

Roomy A said that she called him yesterday around 3 or 4PM multiple times. He didn't call her back until 7PM. She asked if he might know anyone that might have done it as he knows a lot of people that are into games and such. He said he didn't and that he didn't even know I owned those games. Now get this: I had a conversation with him about Ikaruga in my room, standing right in front of my games no less. He mentioned Ikaruga and asked if I'd heard of it. I said I had and told him about my shooter collection. I showed him the Ikaruga DVD as he'd never seen it. Then I went into a conversation about Cave shmups and told him about them as he'd never heard of them before either. So he lied about that. On top of this, he used to live here with roomy A who's lived here for the past three years (this was before roomy B moved in). He also just got back with roomy B recently after a bad break up some months back. And whoever did it, didn't touch roomy B's room. It's just too coincidental.

He claims that he was with his band mate practicing that afternoon. I can't contact this person because he has no phone and I don't even know him.

So, I'm left thinking it was him. If not him, he knows who did it.

What the hell can I do? I can't blatantly ask him all these questions. I'm trying to get more solid info on this. If I know for a fact that he's involved, I would ask him. But as of now I've got nothing concrete.

Suggestions? And seriously.

 

[Atro]

I know what you feel.

I once used to have a PC Hardware store and I got my whole store trashed and robbed. It obviously fucked up my business back then.

Not a single trace of the criminals was found. fuckers.

 

[subcons]

I simply don't have $500 laying around. If I did, I would hire a P.I.

I'm not going to get into a confrontation with my roommate as I know she has nothing to do with it. She's a really good, honest person, who has been fucked over by this guy before. She's not the person that did this. But if her boyfriend is the one who did it, she needs to know about it, no matter how much she thinks they're in love.

As for the band, all it consists of is the guy I think was involved and the other guy. The other guy is supposedly a straight up, nice person. He's fairly secluded though and doesn't associate with many people. My roommate told me where he lives, so I may go over to his house tomorrow and state my situation carefully. If he tells me that they weren't together yesterday, then I'm going straight for this guy.

 

[SouthtownKid]

-beat the shit out of this boyfriend and make him confess

This sounds like a really bad idea on the surface (actually, it probably is) but it gets my vote as most sure way to find out what really happened. Beat the shit out of him. Just beat the living shit out of him until he confesses, Spanish inquisition-style. If he is the type of person who has something to hide, is reluctant to go to the cops for whatever reason, and isn't likely to sue (this comes up too much in California), then schedule a beating.

On the other hand, maybe he didn't do it.

My parents' place got robbed one time while they were out of town and the night after my sister had a party there. I was sure it was someone from the party. I was dead sure...in fact, I thought I knew which one it was. But the thief left prints, the cops actually ended up catching him, and it was just some guy. Sometines, life is funny like that.

 

[Franco Bash]

If he didn't do it, I'm under the assumption he knows the person who did. But what can I do?

Beat his ass, ask him if he did or if he knows who did it, if he says no, beat his ass some more.

i myself had a situation where a relative with a bad weed habit and no job, kept stealing stuff everytime he would come around. We would catch him with stuff in his pockets and he would still deny taking anything. It's amazing how a good ass kicking can straighten out these kinds of problems.

 

[roker]

suggestions

yes

let it go

I've been robbed 3 times and it's better not worry about things you had no control over

I'm glad to have insurance

I lost 9 years of CD collecting, as I had a big CD Case Logic holder, a bunch of PSX and DC games (among them a mint Street Fighter collection), etc.

It's tough, but you'll get over it.

P.S. I love the AV