Wednesday, March 28, 2007

More Theivery Updates

I’m going to stop talking about this soon, I promise, but it’s the only thing in my orbit right now. Adobe talked about the release of CS3 and I kind of forgot about it until today. THAT’S HOW BAD IT IS.

The bank lady just called me and said someone bought a meal at Carl’s Jr. forging my name one of our checks. Yeah, I’m kind of eating only lettuce and brown rice right now and running a lot of late, I haven’t been to a Carl’s Jr. in YEARS. “Yes, please set me up ANOTHER affidavit of fraud and I’ll be over to sign it at lunch, thanks.”

Now I’m all grumpy again.

OH! and get this!

I talked to a nice lady at a Wal-Mart where they spent almost $800 and she told me some of the things they purchased. I totally expected it to be TVs, DVD players, XBox’s, and all the Sudafed (for making meth) that they could get their hands on, etc. Stuff they could easily sell for drug money, basically.

But they bought baby clothes! Socks! Men’s ties! And a ton of groceries. And Fleetwood Mac’s seminal Rumors on CD. And a Simon and Garfunkel CD.

It’s like Jean Valjean from Les Miserables or something over here. Baby clothes and groceries!

Now my liberal guilt is kicking in and I’m thinking… “Jeez, people, if you’d just knocked on our door, we’d have TAKEN you to Wal-Mart and bought you food. We actually are the sorts of people who do that on occasion.” Not $800 worth probably, but certainly a couple hundred. And how can I be mad at someone who likes Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors? I love that album!

Oh… well, I guess it’s actually kind of easy to be mad at them. THEY TOOK MY MONEY!

grumpy.

1. Dude. What if they’re like, blogging their exploits?

   Posted by Radioactive Jam  on  03/28/07  at  12:17 PM

2. eewww!

   Though they did buy themselves a decent PC on our dime.

   Wondering now if I could track them down by the MAC addy in that PC…

   Jon “Super Sleuth” Deal, that’s me.

   Posted by Jon  on  03/28/07  at  12:57 PM

3. That is *so* possible. Expecially with you and the FBI being buds now and all.

   Posted by Radioactive Jam  on  03/28/07  at  04:18 PM

4. Seriously… and if the PC they bought uses Vista… they’ll have to do the product activation dance with MSFT.

   I’m calling the PC Club store and asking.

   MSFT probably knows who they are already!

   Posted by Jon  on  03/28/07  at  04:21 PM

5. If your police force is as over-extended as ours is, you may find yourself doing A LOT of the detective work and follow up.  That is what my sister found.  She really had to keep on top of things and do much of the leg work to keep things going.  (They did catch the guy—but I don’t think they ever prosecuted him for the break-in—they got him on something else.)

   Being in MSFT country myself—they TOTALLY know!  (Shhh, I have a M A C...)

   Posted by Colleen  on  03/28/07  at  06:49 PM

6. Jon the whole turn the other cheek thing has an opt-out option at $50.00.  And I think I’ll just leave it at that.

   Posted by michael  on  03/28/07  at  06:56 PM

7. Rumors??? Rumors??? This places your thieves in the baby boomer age bracket, no? How utterly depressing and odd that we’ve abandoned our elderly, screwed up social security and now they are pilfering your house. Perhaps the baby clothes were for their grandchildren that they are now responsible for because their daughters a junkie doing time for possession.
   Ain’t life grand?

   Posted by cce  on  03/29/07  at  05:36 AM

8. Rumours was a great album.  At least they have some taste.  Baby clothes?  That is not what I would suspect...or buy if I did something stupid like that.  Funny they are sticking around the area.  I suspect you will catch them soon.

   Posted by Sirdar  on  03/29/07  at  09:41 PM

9. Anyone who likes Fleetwood Mac is a dirty thief.

   Posted by Karla  on  04/01/07  at  04:56 PM

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