I GOT ROBBED ON CHRISTMAS! WHAT THE FUCK!!!?
It was nearly midnight when I got home. A night and day spent with family and now I was looking forward to sleeping in my own bed. To my surprise, the door swung open when I attempted to put my keys in the lock. Odd, my roommates are usually pretty good for locking the door... I stepped over the box in the hallway, but it was not until I had set my parcels, mostly christmas gifts, down in my room that I really became alert. My Laptop was not on my desk! I called Alice, my roomate, first, to see if she, perhaps borrowed my computer and set it down someplace less consipcuous -at this point, a hope. I dialed 911, once I had established that she hadn't, to report the robbery.
The main door downstairs had been split, and the door frame shattered around where the locks had failed. The deadbolt, now broken, hanging in place as if nothing had happened. The box I had stepped over in the hallway was a milk crate, which had once sat in front of my door, now filled with Alice's DVD's from the shelf in the hallway. The crate had taken the movies about 6 feet from their home on the shelf before it was left. I was wondering if this was why the cats were acting so skiddish...
Alice came over from her parents place right away. While we were waiting for the cops, I had time to look over my room again, as well as call the landlord and ask if the downstairs neighbours had heard anything. They hadn't. From my room, I realized that my camera backpack was gone. Inside were several old SLRs and some Mini DV tapes, including raw footage from my trip out to my cousin's wedding in 2005, and the wedding itself. My Laptop had all the schoolwork I had done over the last several years on photos as well as essays, and journal and private notes I had never posted online. The strange thing was that the 15$ that Alice had owed me was STILL ON MY DESK!!
It wasn't until after the cop has left that I realized what else was missing. He headed out shortly after getting a dispatch about a B&E in progress on Novalea. Back in my room I noticed that the little plastic shelves by my nightstand were moved. Was it me that had done that? I looked up a bit and noticed the gap between my bed and the wall, bigger then it should be. And then it clicked: they had taken my art portfolio!! Inside it was TEN YEARS of on and off paintings and doodles, all my work from college... everything sine high school.
And now I'm confusd because I don't know why they would take an art portfolio, heavy with matte board and paper, but LEAVE FIFTEEN DOLLARS in CASH on my desk.
So the rundown of what's missing:
iBook g4 + optical mouse.
-definatly some monetary value
-value of work, papers, reasearch, journal entries, as well as personal photos etc, a much bigger loss
Lowepro Camera Backpack, $179 new, now discontinued.
-Inside it:
-Minolta srt200 SLR camera w. 28-80mm lens, as well as fixed 45mm and 135mm lenses --My first real camera, which I used all thoughout college.
-Old Canon SLR, 28mm lens, 80-200mm zoom and a fixed 50mm.--This was a gift from a friend of the family.
-Minolta Maxxim 7000, My favorite little autofocus camera. Unique (to me) as far as I have never come across another, though I'm certain that there are others...
-Other doodads including a manual timer, hotshoe adaptor, light metre shutter release cable and a few other things.
-What can't be replaced it the footage of my 2005 trip to get to my cousin's wedding, as well as the raw footage of the wedding itself. I had returned videocamera before transfering the tapes to anything else, and was unsure as to which tape was what.
Large Portfolio Case apx 26" x 38"
-Contents, several bristol-board sized peices, including a self portrait from grade 9. All of my work from college, any work I had from high schol art classes, concept peices, paintings and unfinished material. Some pads, and unused media. This case was heavy! And nothing in it would be sellable. Some of the individual peices in there took me up to thirty hours of work. But I'm baffled.
and yes, there's still $15 cash on my desk that was there before anything went missing, somehow my portfolio was worth taking, but the cash was too much trouble to stuff in a pocket.
EDIT: It turns out that my CD wallets containing music and all of my back ups were also stolen. This is horrible.