I have been robbed of $305 of my own electronics.
I came home on Friday to the house looking messier than usual. My Bible lay on the floor opened, and a pack of Spearmint Dentyne was on the floor, too. Things got extra weird when I saw the spinning holder part of my guitar stand just there on the floor. Well, I go upstairs and notice the closet door open. Not unusual; my dad always has it ajar. However, I enter my room. My Gamecube was missing. I am freaked out. My Wavebird and uselss Animal Crossing membeory card are there, along with all of my games, but the Gamecube, my memory card, my adapter to the Wavebird controller, and my two controllers are missing. I call my dad and ask him where my Gamecube is. He says he doesn't know. I tell him it's gone. Silence.
We start talking about what happened, as we now know that we were robbed. He tells me to go downstairs, as we're trying to figure out how they got in. The front door was locked. The back door was unlocked and ajar. I go back upstairs, and I discover my mp3 player and my noise-cancelling headphones missing. I also see the other part of guitar stand in the middle of the room, probably intended to be used as a weapon. Apparently, the teens were only looking for pleasing stuff (luckily, they miussed my DS on the floor). They looked everywhere (our rooms, cabinets, my CD case [no CD's stolen; guess they're the people who hate rock and love pop/ rap], under my dad's bed [they knocked down his clock-radio and unplugged his phone], in our DVD cabinet, and in our incencse bottle, leaving the top on the floor). I am now officially ticked off.
I knew Gamecubes are worth close to dirt now ($20 non-in-store credit, $25 in-store credit), and I didn't mind about the gum (must have teenager,s my dad says at this point, because 10-11 packs of Dentyne Spearmint gum are missing, while my dad's credit cards are still there). But, that particular mp3 player cost me $66 on eBay (Sandisk Sansa m240 series 1 GB mp3 player), and the noise-cancelling headphones (Philips Foldable noise-cancelling headphones) cost me $26. That stuff at Best Buy costs the same for the mp3 player, but $54 more for the headphones. At this point, I'm ready to track them down and beat the crap out of them, asking them why.
So, in conclusion, the teenagers (one caucasian, one Mexican) stole $305 (according to their price at stores) of my electronics between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. How do I know this? One of our friendly neighbors saw them trying to jump their fence with the backpack jutting with wires and electronics, too big to zip up. He took the backpack after they dropped it and, believeing the criminals' lies, gave it back. Once I heard this, I was happy that we have a description of the burglars and that we know they probably go to a local Catholic school (the Catholic school/s had the day off), but stunned that our neighbor had my stuff in there hand but gave it back to the burglars. Currently, we cannot tell the local detectives the new info., as they're off on the weekends. I originally couldn't wait for the weekend. Now I can't wait until Monday. Please pray for me and the local police as they try to give these people what they deserve: justice. Thanks again if you read.
