Has anyone here ever been the victim of a crime?

ldent42

@JS that is one hell of a story, you have my sympathy. I agree 100% about the media being assholes. I recently watched a short TV season (8 1 hour episodes) about a murder investigation in a small town and they went into the effects of the media a lot. If you are looking for a distraction, the show is called Broadchurch.

@Whispering hands YOU are a better human being than me. I probably would've killed the guy that poisoned your dog. That is so fucking awful I really hope he gets his for that, in some way or another.

Aside from the inevitable cases of harassment, stalking, and so on that comes with the territory of being born female I have thankfully never been the victim of a really violent crime. I've been robbed and very nearly jumped (someone came to my rescue on that one) but it was as a minor, by minors so it doesn't count as a crime; it's considered just kids being kids.

A friend of mine had some really bad luck a couple years ago. All in the same year, his job got robbed (at night when no one was around, no one was hurt besides the owner's pockets) his car got broken into (nothing was stolen, they couldn't get the radio out & he doesn't keep anything in the car) on a separate occasion someone ripped all the emblems off his car, and finally, the big one - his house got broken into and robbed of everything of value that could be carried easily.Electronics, jewelry, etc. They packed shit up into small packages and carried it out. We know this because they left one box behind (it was his xbox.... which would have led to a LOT of teasing if he hadn't been so upset) THAT got reported to the police, the ipad had the security thingy on it so it showed where it was and they wouldn't do anything.

Who Princess

duska3419 wrote:

@JS that is one hell of a story, you have my sympathy. I agree 100% about the media being assholes.

Years ago I worked for an agency that sponsored a support group for families of murder victims. Those folks had been to hell and back. Media camped out on their lawns, being asked "How do you feel?", coverage of the trial (if there was one). I will say that a few them gave examples of people from the media who showed them compassion and kindness.

BinauralJam

whispering hands wrote:

Too many incidents to recall them all.. But here's my worst, and funniest..

Craziest... My sister brother and a long time friend were walking down the street; going home after a night at the bar, when this car schreeches up to us, and this tweaker dude jumps out with a bale fork and demands all our money!! We start laughing hysterically at this guy! Which just pusses him off! He starts shaking the bale fork at us and yells you want to die tonight, we just start laughing even harder.. My brother tells him sure it's always a good day to die brother! Then our friend tells him, dude we're from California, we've dealt with knives, guns, baseball bats, brass knuckles.. You bring a pitch fork?!?!?! He got even more pissed a threw the fork down and yelled well you're in Missouri now!! We all said in unison, obviously!!

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BinauralJam wrote:

whispering hands wrote:

Too many incidents to recall them all.. But here's my worst, and funniest..

Craziest... My sister brother and a long time friend were walking down the street; going home after a night at the bar, when this car schreeches up to us, and this tweaker dude jumps out with a bale fork and demands all our money!! We start laughing hysterically at this guy! Which just pusses him off! He starts shaking the bale fork at us and yells you want to die tonight, we just start laughing even harder.. My brother tells him sure it's always a good day to die brother! Then our friend tells him, dude we're from California, we've dealt with knives, guns, baseball bats, brass knuckles.. You bring a pitch fork?!?!?! He got even more pissed a threw the fork down and yelled well you're in Missouri now!! We all said in unison, obviously!!

I'm coughing uncontrollably

Peace

SatansFuton

JonnyPistachio

whispering hands wrote:

Too many incidents to recall them all.. But here's my worst, and funniest..

Worst.. I got a job straight out of college, as a ranch foreman,
and had brought with me my working cattle dog. She was very very awesome, and I was quite attached to her. This guy that had applied for the position before me was so irritated and angry that he had been out positioned by a female, on top of that they didn't even need the dog he had, cause my dog was ranch born and raised, and learned to move cattle from an entire lineage of working dogs.. He poisoned her. When I went to the owner of the ranch, he was able to get the guy to confess, he was fired and forced to pay all the vet bills!

Craziest... My sister brother and a long time friend were walking down the street; going home after a night at the bar, when this car schreeches up to us, and this tweaker dude jumps out with a bale fork and demands all our money!! We start laughing hysterically at this guy! Which just pusses him off! He starts shaking the bale fork at us and yells you want to die tonight, we just start laughing even harder.. My brother tells him sure it's always a good day to die brother! Then our friend tells him, dude we're from California, we've dealt with knives, guns, baseball bats, brass knuckles.. You bring a pitch fork?!?!?! He got even more pissed a threw the fork down and yelled well you're in Missouri now!! We all said in unison, obviously!!

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gimmesometruth27

whispering hands wrote:

By the way, that second incident was on Wall Street in Joplin mo. Only in Joplincould you get held up with a mini pitchfork!!

i have lived in st louis most of my life....never heard of anyone using a pitchfork in an attempted robbery.

then again, joplin is a 4 hour drive from here, way closer to arkansas, oklahoma, and kansas than to st louis...

josevolution

Early in this yr our house was broken into stole all my wife's jewels not that we had alot of them just very sentimental peices also took my CD booklet and change bottle oh and my sons gold watch , fuckers never to be caught ...

whispering hands

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

whispering hands wrote:

By the way, that second incident was on Wall Street in Joplin mo. Only in Joplincould you get held up with a mini pitchfork!!

i have lived in st louis most of my life....never heard of anyone using a pitchfork in an attempted robbery.

then again, joplin is a 4 hour drive from here, way closer to arkansas, oklahoma, and kansas than to st louis...

Joplin is crazy! I lived there for 8 years!! It's a unique area! Almost NO ONE has teeth out there!! Lmao!

mickeyrat

yes.

lukin2006

Every payday ...

RKCNDY

yes, first time was in 3rd grade...little wench stole my Jungle Book record, right out of my book bag.

jlaustin

All property crimes when I was in college in the 80's... My purse was stolen when I was at a club, my car stereo was ripped out of my dash (the whole dash was on my front seat), and then a few weeks later someone else broke into my car and took the bitchin' speakers that I failed to remove once my stereo was gone!

All in all feel pretty lucky, nothing major...