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	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! sheep 2007-01-04 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	You were that close?! I have been mugged, among other things! Others have been through much worse. I could only laugh at the 'I was almost mugged comment', otherwise I might have to track him down and show him what crime really is, with the aid of a nail encrusted clue-by-four. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! frequentmouse 2007-01-05 12:44 am UTC (link)
	Well, I once got hit by a flying stereo speaker when my house was being robbed- in Olympia, in the South Capital neighborhood. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! sheep 2007-01-05 12:49 am UTC (link)
	I'd hate to have my house robbed, I don't think I would ever feel safe in my own home again. A flying speaker...? No, I'm fairly sure I don't want details. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO!

ayezur
2007-01-05 01:33 am UTC (link)

You want OMGWTF? Our house was robbed one night, and the guy took some CDs from the front room.

My bedroom is right next to the front room. Which I was sleeping in. While he was rooting around next door. For all I know, he came in and had a looksee if there was anything valuble.

Thank god it was winter. In the summer I tend to sleep naked and sprawled on top of the covers. *shudder*

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	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! singe 2007-01-05 02:56 am UTC (link)
	In the summer I tend to sleep naked and sprawled on top of the covers. That's my best defense, unfortunately. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! altoidsaddict 2007-01-05 09:07 am UTC (link)
	Haha, Bloom County FTW! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Thanks! singe 2007-01-05 01:45 pm UTC (link)
	Bloom County is perfect for all occasions. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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pointandlaugh
2007-01-05 02:20 am UTC (link)

I can possibly give the most "WTF" burglary ever.

We have double-glazing. Our downstaoirs windows don't open, except for a very small window at the top of each, out of reach for most folk.

The burglar went down to our neighbours to steal an outside chair. A cast iron chaur. To give you an idea of the weight of this chair, my mother and I had to ask my neighbour to come get it. We could not lift it.

So yeah. He stood on the chair. He prised the tiny window open. Then, he took the long pole with a hook on the end we use to hold the clothes line up in summer. He used this to fish through the window, hook my mother's handbag strap and pull it through the window.

I swear, when we worked this out, we weren't sure whether to be angry or amazed at his ingenuity.

(Of course, that one also caused a minor security scare. My mother's a civil servent. That week she was due to visit some major offices in London. Until it was acertained her security pass for that was on her desk at work, not in the bag, it was nearly a Major Incident).

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Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO!

altoidsaddict
2007-01-05 09:06 am UTC (link)

Mine's not terribly WTF, but when I was a teenager, we lived in this house in a not terribly savory part of the state. Not, you know, a ghetto like Littleton is, obviously, we were just white trash - someone from my high school was once on Jerry Springer for marrying her cousin, our next-door neighbor had a gigantic sow in her backyard, the major retail being the dollar store and the thrift shop, and even they had trouble keeping in business.

So I guess it's no surprise that one morning my mother woke up to find that part of our picture window had been carefully removed, the screws still on the outside ledge. To this day I crack up at the thought of some cretin, unscrewing everything, removing the window, not hearing a dog or anything, figuring he's got an easy mark. He props up the window gently on the siding, careful not to break it or make noise. Then he gets ready to hoist himself up on the ledge, and comes face to face with a huge, boxy rottweiler whose protective demeanor and expression best resembled Samuel L. Jackson - "I don't want to fuck a motherfucka up, but I will fuck your shit up if I have to. I ain't gonna wake these people up by a lot of nonsense, and I'm having a real good day, so you got to the count of one to leave with all of you intact." I doubt he even growled, not that he would have had to to make his point. The dog certainly didn't bark, but he did wake Mom up in the middle of the night and insisted on checking the entire house with her - we figured he was just acting weird, you know? And then the next morning, the removed window and the tools were sitting there on the outside of the house. That's how fast he left - so we got a few screwdrivers and stuff out of the deal, actually.

What's amazing to me is that this dog was universally sweet and loving. He was fine with firefighters that time the house almost exploded, he didn't do so much as growl to the poor couple who'd been told by a corrupt real estate agent that our house was for sale, and we could leave the keys with people when we went away with absolutely no problem. And the one time he actually needs to be protective, he figured it out.

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	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! frequentmouse 2007-01-05 03:24 am UTC (link)
	A flying speaker...? No, I'm fairly sure I don't want details. They aren't terribly frightening; I was standing at my open back door and the burglar threw a speaker at me to clear his way out. They stole all my Christmas presents and my duvet >:( (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! cellardoor28 2007-01-05 04:38 pm UTC (link)
	My house was robbed a couple of years ago. Amongst the less wierd stuff they took (my jewellery for example) they also took 4 pairs of shoes (of differing sizes) and my housemate's 2 vibrators (one broken). Ah, Lambeth. Bless your little batshit burglars. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! jetamors 2007-01-05 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	When my parents got back from their honeymoon, they found out that their apartment building was closed because of a fire. Their place didn't get any fire damage, but there was a lot of water damage because of the hoses, and a few random items got nicked. One of the things stolen? A print of the Last Supper. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: YOU DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF TACOMA! I DO! rimrunner 2007-01-17 02:18 am UTC (link)
	Somebody tried to mug me in downtown Seattle once, but he was extremely drunk and forgot what he was doing after I shoved him. ...yeah. There wasn't much to that story, really. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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