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Original poster

to hope that something really horrible happens to the person who stole my purse today?

28 replies

Amapoleon · 31/12/2009 22:20

I have had a really tough year. Today, just to put the tin lid on it, some git stole my purse with my mortgage money in it. They also have my passport which is a nightmare as I have to use it everyday. I feel absolutely awful and have lost all faith in humanity.

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MumNWLondon · 31/12/2009 22:23

YANBU I hope something really horrid happens to them too.

I felt the same when my bag was stolen last year.

Sidge · 31/12/2009 22:28

Oh that's crap. Poor you.

I shall wish upon them an infestation of pubic lice, as well as a plague of haemerrhoids and mouth ulcers!

dwpanxt · 31/12/2009 22:29

Bastards
When my sister was burgled a few years ago she made little figures out of plasticine and stuck pins in them while berating them with curses. She had been told by the police who the burglars were (2 girls so could conjour up an image of them.
It did help her.

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Amapoleon · 31/12/2009 22:29

Hahaha, thank you both for your horrible thoughts!

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cheesesarnie · 31/12/2009 22:32

how awful!thinking bad things at them.

have police been helpful at all?

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Amapoleon · 31/12/2009 22:40

Not really, the people in the shop where it happened were absolutely awful!

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MiladyDeWinter · 31/12/2009 22:41

How terrible, poor you!

YANBU to wish horrid things. My DD has had money stolen at school and has hatched a plan to keep the ToysRUs voucher she got for Christmas in her purse whilst telling all and sundry that it's a leftover present worth £50.

We both hope that the little scrote will spend ages selecting and queuing with £50 worth of toys only to be told at the end that the voucher is worthless.

AboardtheAxiom · 31/12/2009 22:44

YANBU

situations like this call for a strong belief in Karma I find

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Amapoleon · 31/12/2009 22:45

Hahaha! Your poor dd, it's worse when it happens to a child.

My kids were with me today and I burst in to tears and then had to explain that there are bad people in the world. Felt terrible about that too.

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cheesesarnie · 31/12/2009 22:51

must be horrible to tell that to a child.stupid shop people too.

BooHooo · 31/12/2009 22:52

Did they not help you at all in the shop where you has it taken? CCTV?

so sorry it happened to you x

scottishmummy · 31/12/2009 22:56

how dreadful!is that your mortgage payment stolen.omg.what will you do.times like this do make you desolate,some folk are shits

FluffyForLifeNotJustForXmas · 31/12/2009 23:00

Oh no, how horrible for you. Can you claim for this on your household insurance?

I hope they wake up tomorrow with pubic lice in their armpits!

MrsSeanBean · 31/12/2009 23:21

So sorry to hear this, there are some scumbags around. Hope they get what they deserve.

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Amapoleon · 31/12/2009 23:25

Thanks, I dont know if my insurance covers it. I am in Spain everything had closed when it happened. I hope it does. I don't know what i'm going to do but with Spanish Christmas approaching, nothing much will happen until the 7th of Jan.

The shop people weren't interested in helping.

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MrsSeanBean · 31/12/2009 23:27

They can be infuriatingly blase in some contries. My brother was mugged in Milan once but the police weren't interested as the muggers were 'unarmed'.
Apparently their attitude was one of 'oh well, these things happen'...

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Amapoleon · 31/12/2009 23:32

Hahah that sounds familiar.

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MrsSeanBean · 31/12/2009 23:36

Makes you glad to be in UK I suppose where at least someone will go through the motions of taking a report of the crime, even if they cheerfully admit there's little chance of catching the culprits.

I do think having something stolen is a horrible experience, I mean, how dare they?!

My parents had a car stolen in the 80s when it was fairly common, but it was a blow when it 'happened to you'. I also had a garden light stolen and while trivial, the bare faced cheek of it infuriated me. I would tan their ratty little hides if I caught them at it!

CantucciniVS · 31/12/2009 23:45

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Amapoleon · 31/12/2009 23:48

Thanks all, I hope these bad vibes are making their way across the miles

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Picadillly · 31/12/2009 23:48

I expect something really horrible already has happened to the thief...which is why they need to steal.

Never pay your bills in cash, I say.

shockers · 31/12/2009 23:49

As the great John Lennon once said..." Instant Karma's gonna get you"
Let's hope he was right

Happy New Year

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Amapoleon · 01/01/2010 00:00

Hahah, I thought that Shockers . I also wondered where mine had gone as I handed a wallet in that I found on the bus last week.

Happy New year to you too.

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Amapoleon · 01/01/2010 00:01

Picadilly, you are right but we earn in one currency and spend in another. This was a cheaper alternative or so I thought, hahaha.

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InMyLittleHead · 01/01/2010 01:56

I read at the bottom of an article in TimesOnline the best ever curse. Some guy said of Margaret Thatcher: 'I hope one of her Christmas lights blows, and it takes her ages to work out which one.'