Ugh. What a crappy day it has been. I got back to my dorm room today and noticed that (64) of my DVD's were missing, My Xbox and (10) games were gone and my DVD player was gone. To top it off my screen was broken and obscenities were written on my window with black permanent marker.
Not going to lie, I sat on my bed and started to cry for a bit. I't was because of one of the following reasons:
  • My Stuff was gone
  • It will take some time buying all those movies over
  • My room was violated
  • I'm down over a $1000
Well it was because of one or all of those reasons that I cried. Then sort of a ray of light occured. I noticed my eMachine computer humming away still turned on. I quickly opened my closet to find my $700 dollar guitar wasn't stolen and my $350 amp wasn't either. I think the combination of my computer and guitar equipment being saved plus my brand new iPod cheered me up momentarily. I headed to the security office to find they were there. I stopped back later and talk to the guy. Basically started forming a police report on it all. I ended up missing only one class today due to me prowling the parking lot for cars with any of my stuff in it, talking to people about it, and circling the building looking for anything I could find.
I learned that there have been several other thefts this semester, some even including people entering rooms while other people are sleeping...gez.
Lets take a look at Lakelands crime report for the previous years - Lakeland's Crime Report Funny how there are very few thefts reported for those years. Could it be that Lakeland doesn't want "many" to appear on their site. Why would a college want any prospect students to see this stuff. Therefore I feel the number's on here are slanted. How many stupid drunks walk around at night that are never caught and given a punishment? Honestly give me a break, only 70 some liquor law violations a year? I could easily find that in one Friday night here.
Furthermore the security is wonderful. A 2 x 4 is the only security we get for our windows. How about a friggin camera watching the side of the building? With all the crap stolen this year we could all have paid a bit more in tuition and got camera's and these deviants would have been caught.
Ok back on track Neal...anyways the Insurance company is picking up the cost after $500 (that I know of so far) The theives managed to removed 81 items from my room with a cost of $1,419.63 which comes out to $17.53 per item. One has to wonder how somebody gets 64 DVDs, a Xbox, 10 games, and a dvd player out somebody's window in one trip. Where the hell did these people go with this crap anyhow? The parking lot is a good 30 yards away. Cars are even farther. The closest dorms are 100 yards away. I honestly don't believe that it could have been only one person. It just isn't fesable.
To sum it all up:
  • Lakeland = don't want to go here anymore
  • Time = wasted having to buy all my crap over again
    • Prepared = you betcha, come to my room again a-holes,
  • perhaps this time you'll come when I'm around.