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23 May 2008 Wii thievery
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My Nintendo Wii was stolen from my lounge on Thursday 16th May.
I didn't actually notice it was gone until the following Friday evening when I got back from work. But I didn't think anything of it, I just assumed one of my housemates borrowed it without asking. There was no one in the house to ask so I went about my business and went away to a friends house for the weekend as planned.
It wasn't until I got back that everyone in the house told me that none of them borrowed it. So someone stole it. Bastards.
There were two things that struck me as odd about the crime. Firstly there was no sign of forced entry. No broken windows, no damaged door, nothing. So I'm assuming that someone left the back door open so the burglar could just walk in (we've all gotten back into the habit of double locking again). But that could also imply that the burglar is someone who has already been in the house and knew where the Wii was.
Which leads me to the second odd thing about the crime. The only thing that was stolen was the Wii, two wiimotes, Mario Kart Wii (because in was in the console at the time) and the power cable. They left the composite cable to connect the Wii to the TV, they left the sensor bar and they left the CD case full of games. So what they nabbed is kinda useless (although you can get replacement sensor bars and TV connectors easily enough). But they also left the crappy TV itself, the Playstation 2, the stack of DVDs next to the TV. The burglar left a whole bunch of stuff. Either he was startled and left with what he could, or he's just a shitty robber.
I mean c'mon! If you've gonna robbed a place take everything you can!!
So that Monday I called the police. Not the emergency 999 number because, well, it's not an emergency. They said they would send someone over that evening, or the following evening.
Wednesday morning I get a call from them apologising that no one came on Monday or Tuesday and saying that someone will be coming that Wednesday evening. I don't really blame them for taking a while to get to my case. With all these many crimes and understaffed, overworked police force that are being tied down by paperwork; it's not exactly high on their priority list to see the guy who got most of his Wii stuff knicked.
So a policewoman came round my house on that Wednesday evening, after having the courtesy of asking if now was a good time for her to come over whilst the football final was on TV. Which... I thought was kinda odd of her, but nevermind. I told her what happened, told her a list of what was taken, and gave her some kind of way of identifying the Wii if they came across one (I didn't have the console's serial number written down, but I did have the Wii number written down). She took a statement, she gave me a "sorry you've been burgled" pack (complete with UV pen), mention that she'll pass the details to the burglary team of the force, mentioned something about how it might not be worth sending in the SOCO team for fingerprinting due to many housemates and the lounge was tidied up before I reported the crime to the police, aaaand.... that was about it really. Her demeanour was pleasant but I got the impression the whole thing was a bit "I'm sorry that your Wii was stolen, but there's not a lot that we can actually do about it."
The thing is I doubt I'll see my Wii back again, no matter how much I cross my fingers, and I can't replace it for a while because A) I have no home insurance and B) I have no spare cash to buy a new one. Which is a bit crappy really. Very crappy.
Posted at: 13:30 PM
Your Thoughts
Suzie said on Friday 23rd of May 2008 at 02:20:00 PM
Very Very Crappy. WHITTERS said on Friday 23rd of May 2008 at 03:44:01 PM
Ouch! Sorry your Wii got stolen. I'd be super pissed if someone stole mine.
I had to chuckle though about the "Sorry you got burgled" pack. Just seems like "Your stuff is gone, you're not getting it back, here's some useless free stuff to make you feel better!" gimmick. I wish they had them here!
MICHELLE said on Friday 23rd of May 2008 at 11:11:14 PM
Bastards. Yup. My favorite word. So, what's the uv pen for? Marking your other stuff I take it?? It got a lo-jack on it 'cuz that seems like the only thing that'd be helpful for this situation.