The Vent and Rant Thread

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

It was easier to just take it over there and leave it on their porch with the OTHER HALF of the delivery.... I kid you not. I got over there, pulled in their driveway and on their porch was another large box from the SAME company....No one was home so I left a note and the box.

You are a far kinder and patient person than I.

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by Mortis

See what's in the box first, you never know it might be worth keeping

Kidding, I would suggest you call the courier and tell them to pick it up and redeliver it.

I have to agree, they will not learn to be more attentive if they do not have to correct their own mistakes!

Originally Posted by Mortis

You are a far kinder and patient person than I.

And less lazy too, I'd have made them come get it!

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by dsvick

And less lazy too, I'd have made them come get it!

Were you reading my comments in the fitness thread? :P

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

All of our delivery people (U.S. Postal Service, Fed Ex, so far UPS hasn't done it though) have apparently now forgotten how to read. It started with the postal service, we started receiving mail for someone on a completely different street, no similarity even in spelling, only the house number was the same. Then we started getting my next door neighbor's mail regularly. When Chris left for work today he noticed a large box on our front porch. We hadn't ordered anything, so when I checked it, it's for the same house number on the next street over.
If I'm going to have to re-deliver mail, shouldn't I at least get the pension plan?

That happens quite often to us. When it's for neighbour I usually bring it. But we live along a long canal and I don't want to walk through the whole inner city to deliver mail. When I recently tried to give some wrong delivered mail to the mailman he looked at me as if I violated him.

Coincidently a man with the same name live further along the canal and we recently got mail for him; someone had written down the wrong address. My mother tried googling him to find the right address and found out he was not only a professor in ethics but also a convicted paedophile . Which was probably why we couldn't find his address. Wrote on the envelope it was the wrong address and put it in the mailbox.

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

That happens quite often to us. When it's for neighbour I usually bring it. But we live along a long canal and I don't want to walk through the whole inner city to deliver mail. When I recently tried to give some wrong delivered mail to the mailman he looked at me as if I violated him.

Coincidently a man with the same name live further along the canal and we recently got mail for him; someone had written down the wrong address. My mother tried googling him to find the right address and found out he was not only a professor in ethics but also a convicted paedophile . Which was probably why we couldn't find his address. Wrote on the envelope it was the wrong address and put it in the mailbox.

There are so many bad jokes that could be told about a professor of ethics who is also a pedophile.

[wodin]

Originally Posted by dsvick

There is nothing so low and despicable as someone who would rather take from someone else simply because they don't have something.

Naw! They're going to fence it and buy drugs. You'd think they could cut out the middle man and just rob the pusher, but then pushers tend to get a bit upset about that.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by desertblues

I'm very sorry for you. KK.
I hope you will get something back from insurance. Do you think they knew exactly what to take?

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

AAiieeeee!! How horrible. This is an office separate from your home, I gather? I guess that's why the attack kitties & baby bear (dog) didn't get the thief. I hope the police can catch somebody!

Originally Posted by Mortis

That suck, hope you get some satisfaction, maybe if they are caught you could let your pets play with them.

I hope your insurance covers it all.

Originally Posted by nohmi2

Sorry to hear that KK.

Maybe it's time to upgrade security?

I do know that it leaves a horrible sense in insecurity after something like that happens.

Keep well.

Cheers

Originally Posted by dsvick

I hate that, hate, hate, hate, hate!!! We had the house we were trying to sell broken into, they stole three stained glass windows and the entire fraking beautiful leaded glass front door!! I have never been so angry in my life as that. I know exactly how you feel, I hope you catch them one day, up on the mountain, when your camping with Pi, and some of your firearms, and some rope, and a baseball bat, oh and a hot poker, and a ..... never mind - I hope they get caught and they get what is coming to them.

There is nothing so low and despicable as someone who would rather take from someone else simply because they don't have something.

Was it your monitor or did it belong to the agency? This was the real estate place right? Did you have your laptop with you at home?

it was at the Real Estate Office. my monitor, all that we have supplied are telephones, a desk, dial tone, power and water. I take my laptop home with me every night thank goodness. the agency was very decent about it, authorized me up to $120 to replace the monitor. of course I lost a bunch of time getting it, installing it, etc. two security firms came through and made bids. there was a strong windstorm last night, power was out so the alarm system was out. we are getting bids that do not depend on power

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

our office was broken into last night, my brand new monitor that I hook my laptop to was taken. all in all, 2 monitors, 2 computers, 2 laptops, a projector were taken along with a sense of security ;o(

Thieves are scum.

I hope they're found, put away, and the stuff returned.

[nohmi2]

Originally Posted by Mortis

You are a far kinder and patient person than I.

Ditto!

Cheers

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Thieves are scum.

I hope they're found, put away, and the stuff returned.

[wannabee]

Blame the bastards down at the local who will wink at each other knowing that it didn't fall off the back of a truck.

[LCF]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

our office was broken into last night, my brand new monitor that I hook my laptop to was taken. all in all, 2 monitors, 2 computers, 2 laptops, a projector were taken along with a sense of security ;o(

Really sorry to hear it. As I was a kid our flat was robbed. The burglars took only the TV (very old, not really worth bothering), but in order to transport it, they took the baby cart of my unborn (yet) sister. Now *that* was neither old, nor cheap and at the time my parents couldn't afford a suitable replacement, so my sister grew up in a borrowed old baby cart from a friends of my parents.
I don't care about the TV, but I really hate these people for stealing the cart.

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

two security firms came through and made bids. there was a strong windstorm last night, power was out so the alarm system was out. we are getting bids that do not depend on power

How much would you charge to rent Pi out to them for each night? If that doesn't stop them nothing will.

Originally Posted by LCF

Really sorry to hear it. As I was a kid our flat was robbed. The burglars took only the TV (very old, not really worth bothering), but in order to transport it, they took the baby cart of my unborn (yet) sister. Now *that* was neither old, nor cheap and at the time my parents couldn't afford a suitable replacement, so my sister grew up in a borrowed old baby cart from a friends of my parents.
I don't care about the TV, but I really hate these people for stealing the cart.

We had a van stolen from our driveway a few years ago, it was a big inconvenience but nothing terrible since we ended getting more for it than we probably could have sold it for, but the part that pissed me off completely was that they took our son's car seat (he was only 2 at the time) and tossed it somewhere. The van was found trashed and pretty much unusable but we never saw the car seat again. Have I mentioned how much I can't stand thieves, worthless, little, small minded, sissy, cowards that they are.

[bjones6416]

A friend of mine was at a fundraiser at her daughter's school, and she left her purse in the car for about an hour, out of sight. Somebody went through and broke into 6 or 7 cars and took 3 purses. They called the police, cancelled their credit cards, etc., and went home. Later that night J. got a call from her pharmacist. Apparently a woman who was getting some empty boxes out of a dumpster behind a liquor store saw that 3 purses were in the bottom of the dumpster. She managed to fish one of them out (my friend's) and although all the cards and ID were gone she found a bottle of prescription medication. She took it to the pharmacy on the label and they contacted J. After a bout of dumpster diving J. recovered all three purses with everything in them except wallets/cards, and the (busted) cellphones of her friends. J. had her cellphone in her pocket so it didn't get stolen. Anyway, I think she learned the lesson of not leaving anything valuable in her car, but it was heartening that the woman collecting the boxes went to the trouble to track her down through the pharmacy. Sometimes the stuff the thieves throw away because it has no value to them is the stuff we can't replace.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by wodin

Naw! They're going to fence it and buy drugs. You'd think they could cut out the middle man and just rob the pusher, but then pushers tend to get a bit upset about that.

Some years ago, I shared a house with friends. One of the friends played piano, and there were two upright pianos in the house, and a grand piano harp sitting on the porch.

We all went away for a weekend. When we came back, we discovered that the harp was gone from the porch. We were nonplussed. A grand piano harp weighs about 300lbs. Stealing one would require about four strong guys and a pickup truck. But once you had stolen it, what would you do with it? It's not the sort of thing you can fence to buy drugs.

We couldn't think of any reason for the theft beyond "because they could."
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Dennis