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AIBU?

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To wish fleas upon scroaty bastards?

21 replies

monkeyfacegrace · 25/04/2010 13:00

Ive just come home from a lovely wander around a car boot sale with my two kids and DH, to find some nasty fucker has knicked my purse. Everything, debit cards, credit cards, cash, photos, staff cards, vouchers. The lot. Im irrationally upset, close to a proper legs-in-the-air tantrum.
So, AIBU to hope the bastard gets his pubes infested by 1000 fleas?
(off to check ebay to see if a radley purse miraculously appears on Ebay close to home...)

OP posts:
TanteRose · 25/04/2010 13:02

how awful!

no, YANBU - a plague on the bastard!

Scrudd · 25/04/2010 13:02

Poor you. I was burgled on thursday night, so I sympathise. Of all the things they took, the thing that pisses me off the most is the fact that there were photos of my family that I will never get back, in my purse.

JustMyTwoPenceWorth · 25/04/2010 13:04

Nope. Did they pinch it from your bag or get it out of your car? You have to be so careful in places like car boot sales! I have my bag across like this only instead of it being at the side, to my hip, it is slap bang in the middle, covering my belly button.

Or at least where my belly button would be if it wasn't actually across my knees.

I feel like it is the hardest position for a pickpocket to access.

TheJollyPirate · 25/04/2010 13:05

Fleas in his pubes and a pair of sex maniac breeding mice im hos house chewing through all the cables. Scumbag!.
What utter scratters some people are.

monkeyfacegrace · 25/04/2010 13:07

omg scrudd, im so sorry, that puts mine into perspective.

I just feel violated Its MY purse, not YOURS, so fucking give it back! It has my driving license in it, so if (not v.likely) I did drop it or leave it somewhere, it could be brought back easily.

Bah.
sniff sniff

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Scrudd · 25/04/2010 13:27

Yeah, my driving licence was in my purse too. They cost £20 to replace, did you know that? I'm going to claim it on the insurance.

Strangely enough, I felt more violated when someone nicked my phone out of my bag a couple of years ago than I do this time, and the little fucker came into the house when we were all asleep!!

scrab806ble · 25/04/2010 13:41

Scrudd, same thing happened to us, some f'er came into house and stole everything from room they were in. Unfortunately, that meant my phone, purse, camera (with such precious photos, always print now) computer (with photo back up blah blah...He was caught about 3 months later trying to break into school beside Police Station(!), and I had to go and id stuff. It broke my heart to see photo cards, for zoo etc showing dds which had been in this pigs house. Of course phone etc long gone.
I feel your pain, everyone who has had stuff stolen.
x

prettyfly1 · 25/04/2010 14:13

I had the same thing about five years ago now Scrudd and it was the worst feeling. Never got the stuff back but OP your feelings are TOTALLY understandable.

EccentricaGallumbits · 25/04/2010 14:15

fucker

Scrudd · 25/04/2010 14:16

I very much doubt we'll get our stuff back, they cleared the ground floor, but didn't go upstairs, thankfully. There was an exciting moment on friday afternoon when the police arrested someone, and dh had to go to the police station to identify our telly, but it turned out it wasn't ours after all, so unlikely that the bloke they were holding was the same one that robbed us.

But HAH! they took the kids laptop, which was utterly knackered anyway. It wouldn't even start up properly, so we'll be able to replace it quite nicely, thank you

thumbwitch · 25/04/2010 14:21

God I hate people like this. YANBU at all - it's a lovely curse, I think there's one like it in Rudyard Kipling's Kim - May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits (although pubes is better) or something like that.

I have been burgled 3 times - hate the bastards totally. Lost family jewellery, things my deceased grandmothers had given me, irreplaceable.

Scrudd · 25/04/2010 14:25

I'm seriously thinking of getting a safe box in a bank, because there's a strong possibility that they'll be back in a few weeks when the insurance has coughed up, and I have my (late) mother's jewellery in the house, and my (late) father's instruments ( he was an orchestral musician).

One of the reasons I think they'll be back is because they stole the charger for my macbook, but the macbook was in the bedroom but they know it's here. Dh has physically bolted his iMac to the desk, so they wouldn't be able to remove it without taking the entire desk with them.

SimonCowellIsSatan · 25/04/2010 15:22

Other countries chop the hands off theives. Why can't we do this too? It would sort crime rates out pretty quickly I'd say. Here we just say "oh you are naughty, now here's a plasma tv and a playstation, off you go now!

Once one hand is gone they have one left. If they commit a crime again then they have the second one removed. I'm not that nasty though, I'd give them a choice the first time between left and right. If they're stupid enough to commit a crime the third time then they'd just get shot.

Anyway, the reason I feel so strongly now a days is the night I went into labour with my baby boy our car was stollen from our drive. Luckily we were able to borrow FIL's car, but we have 2 other kids 4 and 2 and the car seats, push chair...nursery bag...all the other stuff you keep for your kids in the car was gone and never recovered.

So anyway monkey face YABU because fleas are not NEARLY horrid enough for such turdforms. Unless they have plague.

pigletmania · 25/04/2010 15:25

YANBU at all this individual is a theiving lowlife and deserves the horrid names he/she has brought on themselves

BuzzingNoise · 25/04/2010 15:27

YANBU. I had my purse stolen last year so I know what a loss it is.

FeelingOld · 25/04/2010 16:11

YANBU at all.
We were burgled on a rare overnight stay out last year, they smashed a whole pane of glass in our french windows to get in, they stole 2 laptops, wii, 2 nintendo ds, jewellery, phones, my driving license, money and gift vouchers my dd had been given a few days earlier for her birthday and lots of other bits. Not only that, they emptied out all the draws etc so the whole house was a complete mess.

They deserve fleas at the very least.

ThorNogson · 25/04/2010 18:50

YANBU, its awful getting robbed. A couple of years ago someone (probably one of the builders painting the windows but we have no proof) nicked 5 of my rings including my engagement ring and some other stuff. It really pissed me off.

Thankfully insurance paid up and I had lots of money that I was only allowed to spend on diamonds - that was a fun shopping trip.

RunawayWife · 25/04/2010 18:54

so sorry this has happened to you.
My mum had her purse stolen a while back, my sister had her bag stolen on the way in to a tube stating and them a laptop stolen from a bag in a coffee shop.

It is the trouble of replacing it all, bank cards and so on.

YANBU I hope he gets crabs

MadamDeathstare · 25/04/2010 18:57

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ande · 25/04/2010 19:09

YANBU

May the fleas of, atlesast, a thousand camels also infest this thiefs' armpits

KERALA1 · 25/04/2010 20:50

Its bloody annoying though. When it happens to me I try to think at least no one is hurt people have to deal with worse things etc. Although i did have an epic tantrum when someone nicked my bag at an airport. I have found the DVLA to be quite efficient at replacing driving licences.

Things I have had nicked over the years as a result of 3 burglaries and bag snatches:

2x cars
wheels from my car
ownership documents for car taken from the flat
phone
stereo
purse
passport
christening silver

I do always chuckle when politicians chunter on about the fear of crime always exceeding actual crime. Not in my experience!

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