Really?! My shoes?
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Really?! My shoes?
Last night we had a righteous storm with hurricane force winds and several inches of rain falling over the course of 6 hours or so. I'm a sound sleeper so it wasn't much of an issue for me but for my wife it's quite another story. She mentioned that the dog got pretty agitated at a couple of points but brushed it off as being storm noise. It wasn't, somebody had gotten into my car looking for valuables. They took about 65 cents in change and my bike shoes. My bike shoes!!WTF!!! What's the point of that? The dumbass left a pair of $200 sunglasses hanging from the rearview mirror.
Thanks for the vent.
Thanks for the vent.
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Last night we had a righteous storm with hurricane force winds and several inches of rain falling over the course of 6 hours or so. I'm a sound sleeper so it wasn't much of an issue for me but for my wife it's quite another story. She mentioned that the dog got pretty agitated at a couple of points but brushed it off as being storm noise. It wasn't, somebody had gotten into my car looking for valuables. They took about 65 cents in change and my bike shoes. My bike shoes!!WTF!!! What's the point of that? The dumbass left a pair of $200 sunglasses hanging from the rearview mirror.
Thanks for the vent.
Thanks for the vent.
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Follow Occam's razor principle: no need to invent/involve third parties, when all the usual suspects are right there in front of you. Face it, it might have been your dog who took your shoes. Dogs are pretty fond of shoes for some reason. Sunglasses - not so much.
(Have you been spending too much time riding your bicycle and too little time walking your dog lately?)
(Have you been spending too much time riding your bicycle and too little time walking your dog lately?)
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Perhaps the thief didn't realize that cycling shoes are most uncomfortable to walk in? SPD? SPD-SL?
With some luck, someone will break into your car tomorrow and leave a pair of cycling shoes for you
With some luck, someone will break into your car tomorrow and leave a pair of cycling shoes for you
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I have a different take on this. My theory is that around 1:15 A.M. someone managed to get into your car and stole the right shoe. Then, at 3:35 A.M. a different perp got into your car and stole the left shoe, thus giving the illusion that there was only 1 thief!
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When I was in college I worked nights in the downtown are (Kansas City) in a not so nice part of town. I never had anything of value in my car so I always left it unlocked.
One night after work I get in my car, look over and the passenger window is smashed. Nothing taken but nothing in the car to take. $50 for a new window and a pain in the butt to replace.
Just open the door, fool!! It's unlocked!
Nothing worse than a stupid thief.
One night after work I get in my car, look over and the passenger window is smashed. Nothing taken but nothing in the car to take. $50 for a new window and a pain in the butt to replace.
Just open the door, fool!! It's unlocked!
Nothing worse than a stupid thief.
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That **** sucks. Sorry man. They stole it because they think they can sell them for money more than likely for drugs. Now you can get new shiny shoes. Upside...?
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Follow Occam's razor principle: no need to invent/involve third parties, when all the usual suspects are right there in front of you. Face it, it might have been your dog who took your shoes. Dogs are pretty fond of shoes for some reason. Sunglasses - no so much.
(Have you been spending too much time riding your bicycle and too little time walking your dog lately?)
(Have you been spending too much time riding your bicycle and too little time walking your dog lately?)
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I had my house broken into a while ago. They took the usual valuable things, but also some weird stuff like laundry detergent and a bottle of whiskey. They even left the crowbar they used to pry open the window. I wanted to keep it as a small compensation, but the cops took it for evidence.
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with one of my car thefts, when I got it back, I saw they stole the wiper blades & battery. you just never know
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I must have left my new car unlocked one night. Someone rifled through the glove compartment but found nothing. They must have been too lazy to check the center compartment for change because it was still there. They also left behind an expensive pair of hiking boots that were covered by a large blanket. What they ended up taking were the all-weather floor mats out of back. Still in the plastic packaging. Maybe they also had a 2017 Subaru Forester and needed some new mats.
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oh man, those are nice mats
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I had this vision of a guy walking around trying to hawk floor mats to people on the street.
But that wasn't the worst thing that happened to my poor new car. Maybe a couple of months after I brought it home some guy walked through three neighborhoods early one morning randomly smashing car windows. He got one of my rear passenger windows. I didn't even know it for about 24 hrs. All in all, he got over 30 cars. The police caught him. He was apparently psychotic and/or on some drug. By the time I discovered the damage, the SafeLite place closest to my 'hood was all booked up, probably because of all the cars he had jacked up. The next closest place was in New Jersey (I live in Philly). At least my end was only $50.
But that wasn't the worst thing that happened to my poor new car. Maybe a couple of months after I brought it home some guy walked through three neighborhoods early one morning randomly smashing car windows. He got one of my rear passenger windows. I didn't even know it for about 24 hrs. All in all, he got over 30 cars. The police caught him. He was apparently psychotic and/or on some drug. By the time I discovered the damage, the SafeLite place closest to my 'hood was all booked up, probably because of all the cars he had jacked up. The next closest place was in New Jersey (I live in Philly). At least my end was only $50.
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Last night we had a righteous storm with hurricane force winds and several inches of rain falling over the course of 6 hours or so. I'm a sound sleeper so it wasn't much of an issue for me but for my wife it's quite another story. She mentioned that the dog got pretty agitated at a couple of points but brushed it off as being storm noise. It wasn't, somebody had gotten into my car looking for valuables. They took about 65 cents in change and my bike shoes. My bike shoes!!WTF!!! What's the point of that? The dumbass left a pair of $200 sunglasses hanging from the rearview mirror.
Thanks for the vent.
Thanks for the vent.
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I must have left my new car unlocked one night. Someone rifled through the glove compartment but found nothing. They must have been too lazy to check the center compartment for change because it was still there. They also left behind an expensive pair of hiking boots that were covered by a large blanket. What they ended up taking were the all-weather floor mats out of back. Still in the plastic packaging. Maybe they also had a 2017 Subaru Forester and needed some new mats.
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I had this vision of a guy walking around trying to hawk floor mats to people on the street.
But that wasn't the worst thing that happened to my poor new car. Maybe a couple of months after I brought it home some guy walked through three neighborhoods early one morning randomly smashing car windows. He got one of my rear passenger windows. I didn't even know it for about 24 hrs. All in all, he got over 30 cars. The police caught him. He was apparently psychotic and/or on some drug. By the time I discovered the damage, the SafeLite place closest to my 'hood was all booked up, probably because of all the cars he had jacked up. The next closest place was in New Jersey (I live in Philly). At least my end was only $50.
But that wasn't the worst thing that happened to my poor new car. Maybe a couple of months after I brought it home some guy walked through three neighborhoods early one morning randomly smashing car windows. He got one of my rear passenger windows. I didn't even know it for about 24 hrs. All in all, he got over 30 cars. The police caught him. He was apparently psychotic and/or on some drug. By the time I discovered the damage, the SafeLite place closest to my 'hood was all booked up, probably because of all the cars he had jacked up. The next closest place was in New Jersey (I live in Philly). At least my end was only $50.
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,,,, I don't know,,, I live down here in this city of sin on the gulf coast at the end of the Mississippi river and when we get hurricane force winds and several inches of rain we stay up all night drinking and carrying on waiting for disaster to hit ,,, don't see how you can be sleeping,,,,,,
Until the tree trunk broke. That crash woke us all up. It fell parallel to the wall, within a foot, damaged a bit of the overhang. Had it fallen just inches to the left my mother in law would have been squished.
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Also: I slept through a fire alarm in college. Not a drill - like the actual alarm, in the middle of the night, when everybody has to get up and go outside in their jammies. Except for me, because I was sleeping.
I told my dad about it and he was like, "Oh yeah? Well I slept through a ballistic attack in Vietnam!"
Some of us take that sleeping thing seriously.