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Yesterday I was in Pacific Coffee having a, well, coffee. PC is a local version of Starbucks - mostly stools + tables, with a few comfy chairs, lousy coffee. Only reason I go to PC is because unlike Starbucks they also have a couple of pcs with internet for free use and it's the nearest cafe to the gym.
Anyway, I'm sitting there having my coffee waiting for a comp to become free. I notice a cellphone on the table in front of me, no-one sitting there. I'm tossing up whether to go take it and give it to the staff or just wait and see if anyone comes back to retrieve it when the guy at the computer turns round and obviously checks up on it.
Odd, I thought - why leave your phone on an empty table behind you where it could easily get stolen? I shrug and continue reading the paper. A couple minutes later same guy looks around, spies that a comfy chair has now become free. He leaves his jacket on the computer stool, grabs his phone and runs over to the chair. Sits his phone on the table in front and then goes back to the computer.
Aha! I see that he's using his phone to mark his 'territory'. Rude and selfish I thought - conniving in this way to fill two places just to stop others from using them. Also rather stupid, as the comfy chair was way over the other side of the cafe from the computer which is facing away from said chair. There's no way you can keep an eye on anything left there.
Several more minutes pass. He gets up - still leaving his jacket on the computer chair (no taskesies!), even though he's been on it more than 15 minutes now (there's a sign asking customers to limit themselves to <15 min) and goes to the toilet. I know he went to the toilet because upon exiting he went over to check his phone and - surprise, surprise - it wasn't there.
Suddenly he gets all irate and starts yelling at the staff demanding to know why they hadn't been keeping tabs on his property and that he'd only been gone "just 1 or 2 minutes" so surely they saw who had taken his phone.
And so on and so on.


No-one deserves to be a victim of theft (or indeed any crime) but for some who are it's pretty much impossible to have any sympathy for them whatsoever. This guy definitely fits into that category.

Anyone you've met/seen/heard of recently that matches this?
(and please no-one post about Ted Kennedy!)

Yesterday I was in Pacific Coffee having a, well, coffee. PC is a local version of Starbucks - mostly stools + tables, with a few comfy chairs, lousy coffee. Only reason I go to PC is because unlike Starbucks they also have a couple of pcs with internet for free use and it's the nearest cafe to the gym.
Anyway, I'm sitting there having my coffee waiting for a comp to become free. I notice a cellphone on the table in front of me, no-one sitting there. I'm tossing up whether to go take it and give it to the staff or just wait and see if anyone comes back to retrieve it when the guy at the computer turns round and obviously checks up on it.
Odd, I thought - why leave your phone on an empty table behind you where it could easily get stolen? I shrug and continue reading the paper. A couple minutes later same guy looks around, spies that a comfy chair has now become free. He leaves his jacket on the computer stool, grabs his phone and runs over to the chair. Sits his phone on the table in front and then goes back to the computer.
Aha! I see that he's using his phone to mark his 'territory'. Rude and selfish I thought - conniving in this way to fill two places just to stop others from using them. Also rather stupid, as the comfy chair was way over the other side of the cafe from the computer which is facing away from said chair. There's no way you can keep an eye on anything left there.
Several more minutes pass. He gets up - still leaving his jacket on the computer chair (no taskesies!), even though he's been on it more than 15 minutes now (there's a sign asking customers to limit themselves to <15 min) and goes to the toilet. I know he went to the toilet because upon exiting he went over to check his phone and - surprise, surprise - it wasn't there.
Suddenly he gets all irate and starts yelling at the staff demanding to know why they hadn't been keeping tabs on his property and that he'd only been gone "just 1 or 2 minutes" so surely they saw who had taken his phone.
And so on and so on.


No-one deserves to be a victim of theft (or indeed any crime) but for some who are it's pretty much impossible to have any sympathy for them whatsoever. This guy definitely fits into that category.

Anyone you've met/seen/heard of recently that matches this?
(and please no-one post about Ted Kennedy!)

You do realize you've waved a red cape while standing in a corral of bulls, don't you?

To your point -- I agree completely. Self-important fuckwads like that annoy me, and no, nobody deserves to be a victim (well, unless they do, but not this particular guy...mostly), but the guy in your anecdote was a tool.

I would have told him I stole your phone and you cant do a damn thing about it the leave the store.

I would have told him I stole your phone and you cant do a damn thing about it the leave the store.

a very nice way to get the cops at your door that.

I think anybody living on the flood plain of a river that floods as often as the Mississippi and it's tributaries deserves what they get. Or perhaps we should hear from someone with a more cutting opinion on the subject, my pal George Carlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tvrBU48b3U

:)

I think anybody living on the flood plain of a river that floods as often as the Mississippi and it's tributaries deserves what they get. Or perhaps we should hear from someone with a more cutting opinion on the subject, my pal George Carlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tvrBU48b3U

:)

Or Carlos Mencia's depiction of those choosing the flimsiest housing option in a place so known for tornados that they actually call it "Tornado Alley".

Choices can be...interesting.

I much prefer Pacific Coffee to Starbucks, the coffee's better. So yes, there are people who completely abuse the Internet, not that I care because I always use my laptop.

We had the same at the HK racetrack where this old lady had covered an entire row of seats with newspapers - I'm not entirely sure whether she just wanted to spread out all the betting pages or whether she was reserving it for other people but the point is that she wasn't there when we arrived - when she came back, given we'd shifted what looked like trash from the seats to sit down, she let out a torrent of abuse and, as far as I'm concerned, Cantonese is the most abusive language there is, it makes English seem so limited in the variety of ways available to insult someone.

It was a tough one because she was so old there was an element of wanting to be respectful but then old people can be the worst at being utterly selfish sometimes.

Having said all that, I've certainly been cheeky in terms of taking places and reserving them in fairly dodgy ways.

I do wonder what people think the protocol on queues are, where you save a space for your friend - what's allowed? Can you reserve for just one friend, 30 friends, no friends at all?

No-one deserves to be a victim of theft (or indeed any crime) but for some who are it's pretty much impossible to have any sympathy for them whatsoever. This guy definitely fits into that category.

Anyone you've met/seen/heard of recently that matches this?
(and please no-one post about Ted Kennedy!)


Probably doesn't fit what you are saying exactly....but....long ago I had a boss that was a prick of the highest order. Not only treated his employees badly but also talked about his clients like they were dogs. He was terribly arrogant and felt so much smarter than the rest of the human race. He fought his ex in court over custody of his daughter, who he proceeded to tell that he didn't really want her but was going to make sure her mother didn't 'win'. That kind of prick.

Last summer I read he wrapped his corvette around a tree and died instantly. My first thought was ...."poor car".

It was completely impossible to have any sympathy for him at all.

a very nice way to get the cops at your door that.

For some reason I think the police would laugh at him once they asked the store clerk what happened.

Probably doesn't fit what you are saying exactly....but....long ago I had a boss that was a prick of the highest order. Not only treated his employees badly but also talked about his clients like they were dogs. He was terribly arrogant and felt so much smarter than the rest of the human race. He fought his ex in court over custody of his daughter, who he proceeded to tell that he didn't really want her but was going to make sure her mother didn't 'win'. That kind of prick.

Last summer I read he wrapped his corvette around a tree and died instantly. My first thought was ...."poor car".

It was completely impossible to have any sympathy for him at all.

He sounds a lot like the woman I used to work for. She was incapable of even making a pretense of treating her workforce fairly. She even tried to get us to 1. babysit her 12-year-old nephew (she was his legal guardian) for free, 2. do her nephew's homework for him, 3. chauffeur him places.

If you didn't do these things, she gave bad evaluations and disciplinary actions.

We were all delighted when her nephew stole her credit cards and ran up $2000 in charges and then put sugar in the gas tank of her brand new Lexus.

So wait, did you pick up the guy's cell phone....I'm confused?? I prolly just didn't read it right, sorry.

:headbang:

I Think this may just turn into a huge wankfest about old bosses. :D

So I'll join in.

My old boss when I was a lifeguard saw fit to reprimand employees she didn't really "like" in front of clients and the children we taught how to swim. Only thing, she did so like she was talking to a child. Once she got so angry she turned bright red in front of about 20 adults and 10 kids, which was impressive seeing as she was tanned to the color of some old tired leather.

Also, her daughter was a bitch and she always thought we were a bad influence on her yet would force us to take care of her at the pool when she couldn't be there.

I think later she lost her in a custody battle with her ex-husband. I don't know whether to think she was lucky or the dad was fucked.

i think the only people least deserving of simpathy, and then only least, that doesn't mean not at all, but it does mean the've been getting WAAAAY TOOO much slack for the past decade or several, are decision makers, who's "mistakes" have been, amounted to, or resaulted in, mass genocide.

these generally, though not by any means always, but geneally, tend to call themselves "conservative" and what they call being "conservative" is almost invariably their lame excuse.

=^^=
.../\...

We were all delighted when her nephew stole her credit cards and ran up $2000 in charges and then put sugar in the gas tank of her brand new Lexus.

12 years old?

The things they learn on the internet ... :p

Well, I had a neighbour who threatened (in writing) to sue because one of my trees fell on her roof ... denting it just noticeably.

The only thing that makes that story worthwhile is what happened to the assholes who were renting her house. They'd reported this fallen tree to her (they and I weren't on speaking terms).

House owner came around to have a look at the damage, decided to "inspect" the inside of the house ... and found an engine block in the living room, graffiti on the walls, broken windows, amateur re-wiring, rodents in the filthy kitchen, etcetc. I heard all about it because they had a screaming argument out the front.

Tenants were gone within a week. The dent is still there, the owner never mentioned it again :D

Yay for practical landlords! :D

Yay for practical landlords! :D

The joke is really on the tenants. I think they told her some lies about how I'd deliberately smashed the roof or something. Actually I'd tidied up the fallen trunk within a couple of days.

I didn't like her, I didn't like them. That event led her to sell up instead of taking more tenants, the new neighbours are great ... and I never lifted a finger. Ahhhh! :)

The joke is really on the tenants. I think they told her some lies about how I'd deliberately smashed the roof or something. Actually I'd tidied up the fallen trunk within a couple of days.

I didn't like her, I didn't like them. That event led her to sell up instead of taking more tenants, the new neighbours are great ... and I never lifted a finger. Ahhhh! :)



You conniving albeit brilliant bastard.. ;)

*takes notes*

You conniving albeit brilliant bastard.. ;)

*takes notes*

I didn't do nothin' guv!

Real idiots do all the work for you ... all you need is to get out of the way ...

and found an engine block in the living room, :D

well where am I supposed to work on the engine block? if not the living room.

well where am I supposed to work on the engine block? if not the living room.

I did mine on my patio ;)

Tony Blair.
Didier Drogba and John Terry. Pricks.:)
Ted Heath.
Chavs.
Criminals.
Intentionally unemployed.
and anybody else who, either by design or accident, really fucks me off.

Intentionally unemployed.

So, you have a job then?

Chavs.
Criminals.
Intentionally [chronically?] unemployed.

We understood you the first time ;)

We understood you the first time ;)

Speak for yourself.

TbC strikes me as a spoilt rich kid who won't ever have to work, but will continue to look down on people who don't want to work shifts collecting trolleys or cleaning toilets.

But then, I don't know him at all. Just how he comes across.

Speak for yourself.

Chris does have form when he talks about "chavs." One tends to know what to expect

But then, I don't know him at all. Just how he comes across.

A mean person could actually name him (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=549121).

If they were feeling mean of course...

:)

she let out a torrent of abuse and, as far as I'm concerned, Cantonese is the most abusive language there is, it makes English seem so limited in the variety of ways available to insult someone.

It was a tough one because she was so old there was an element of wanting to be respectful but then old people can be the worst at being utterly selfish sometimes.
Cantonese is probably the best language in the world to swear in by all accounts. Their flowery descriptive terms are among the best insults I've ever come across.

The old women here especially certainly test one's patience with regards to following the adage of respecting one's elders.
I was at the border once waiting in line for the train. An old woman walked right to the front and when the guard told her this wasn't allowed, she just kept smiling and nodding and repeating, "Oh but I'm old"

Maybe it's a function of what we think of bosses in general that so many of these stories are about them.

And so is mine:

I once had a boss who firmly believed that the best way to run the project was to treat it as if it were the Corleone family. If you showed him loyalty (even if not competence) you were good to go. Fail to show the proper deference and you were toast. He abused the system, showed blatant overt sex discrimination, violated security procedures and ran roughshod over company policy whenever he could rationalize it in the name of getting things done or covering his backside.

The day he was fired he called the two most senior leads (myself and one other guy) into a conference room to break the news... tearfully. Then it became my task to escort him off the base. I wanted to feel sympathy but... I just couldn't make myself do it.

Yesterday I was in Pacific Coffee having a, well, coffee. PC is a local version of Starbucks - mostly stools + tables, with a few comfy chairs, lousy coffee. Only reason I go to PC is because unlike Starbucks they also have a couple of pcs with internet for free use and it's the nearest cafe to the gym.
Anyway, I'm sitting there having my coffee waiting for a comp to become free. I notice a cellphone on the table in front of me, no-one sitting there. I'm tossing up whether to go take it and give it to the staff or just wait and see if anyone comes back to retrieve it when the guy at the computer turns round and obviously checks up on it.
Odd, I thought - why leave your phone on an empty table behind you where it could easily get stolen? I shrug and continue reading the paper. A couple minutes later same guy looks around, spies that a comfy chair has now become free. He leaves his jacket on the computer stool, grabs his phone and runs over to the chair. Sits his phone on the table in front and then goes back to the computer.
Aha! I see that he's using his phone to mark his 'territory'. Rude and selfish I thought - conniving in this way to fill two places just to stop others from using them. Also rather stupid, as the comfy chair was way over the other side of the cafe from the computer which is facing away from said chair. There's no way you can keep an eye on anything left there.
Several more minutes pass. He gets up - still leaving his jacket on the computer chair (no taskesies!), even though he's been on it more than 15 minutes now (there's a sign asking customers to limit themselves to <15 min) and goes to the toilet. I know he went to the toilet because upon exiting he went over to check his phone and - surprise, surprise - it wasn't there.
Suddenly he gets all irate and starts yelling at the staff demanding to know why they hadn't been keeping tabs on his property and that he'd only been gone "just 1 or 2 minutes" so surely they saw who had taken his phone.
And so on and so on.


No-one deserves to be a victim of theft (or indeed any crime) but for some who are it's pretty much impossible to have any sympathy for them whatsoever. This guy definitely fits into that category.

I'd say that that guy deserved what he got.

I'd say that that guy deserved what he got.

I was thinking somebody else probably noticed his antics as well and tossed it in the trash.

I don't want to say all old people do not desreve sympathy, but some are so rude I get angry. Specially when they think that just because they have lived more, the opinions of the young do not count.

I don't want to say all old people do not desreve sympathy, but some are so rude I get angry. Specially when they think that just because they have lived more, the opinions of the young do not count.

Oh no, they do count ... but not yet.

See, when you get all wrinkly, THEN it matters what you thought when you were young. :p

Cantonese is probably the best language in the world to swear in by all accounts. Their flowery descriptive terms are among the best insults I've ever come across.

Muahahahahahaha. Don't piss me off.

Yesterday I was in Pacific Coffee having a, well, coffee. PC is a local version of Starbucks - mostly stools + tables, with a few comfy chairs, lousy coffee. Only reason I go to PC is because unlike Starbucks they also have a couple of pcs with internet for free use and it's the nearest cafe to the gym.
Anyway, I'm sitting there having my coffee waiting for a comp to become free. I notice a cellphone on the table in front of me, no-one sitting there. I'm tossing up whether to go take it and give it to the staff or just wait and see if anyone comes back to retrieve it when the guy at the computer turns round and obviously checks up on it.
Odd, I thought - why leave your phone on an empty table behind you where it could easily get stolen? I shrug and continue reading the paper. A couple minutes later same guy looks around, spies that a comfy chair has now become free. He leaves his jacket on the computer stool, grabs his phone and runs over to the chair. Sits his phone on the table in front and then goes back to the computer.
Aha! I see that he's using his phone to mark his 'territory'. Rude and selfish I thought - conniving in this way to fill two places just to stop others from using them. Also rather stupid, as the comfy chair was way over the other side of the cafe from the computer which is facing away from said chair. There's no way you can keep an eye on anything left there.
Several more minutes pass. He gets up - still leaving his jacket on the computer chair (no taskesies!), even though he's been on it more than 15 minutes now (there's a sign asking customers to limit themselves to <15 min) and goes to the toilet. I know he went to the toilet because upon exiting he went over to check his phone and - surprise, surprise - it wasn't there.
Suddenly he gets all irate and starts yelling at the staff demanding to know why they hadn't been keeping tabs on his property and that he'd only been gone "just 1 or 2 minutes" so surely they saw who had taken his phone.
And so on and so on.


No-one deserves to be a victim of theft (or indeed any crime) but for some who are it's pretty much impossible to have any sympathy for them whatsoever. This guy definitely fits into that category.

Anyone you've met/seen/heard of recently that matches this?
(and please no-one post about Ted Kennedy!)
I think this story is proof that some people actually do deserve to be victims. I mean, when they work so hard to set it up, who can say they don't deserve the reward for their efforts? To deny them would just be rude, yes? :)

And I see shit like this on a daily basis, everywhere. The world somehow got full of self-absorbed princes and princesses who think they can just do whatever they want, whenever, and fuck anything/everything else. Like 5-year-olds. But you know, if you don't give them the lessons, how will they ever learn?

I agree with Neo Bret that someone probably just tossed the phone out of annoyance. If I'd been there, I would have been tempted just to move the phones of both idiots. Maybe switch them while they weren't looking, and do it really obviously to see if anyone else in the place would say anything to them. I might not have done it, but if I chickened out I'd regret it.

Oh no, they do count ... but not yet.

See, when you get all wrinkly, THEN it matters what you thought when you were young. :p

I take in account that older people have experience in more things than me. And I would never dare be disrespectful towards someone with as many white hairs (that's an expression we use in Spain) as say, my grandfather. But... don't my own opinions count to the old too? Why, oh why don't they listen?! :p

I take in account that older people have experience in more things than me. And I would never dare be disrespectful towards someone with as many white hairs (that's an expression we use in Spain) as say, my grandfather. But... don't my own opinions count to the old too? Why, oh why don't they listen?! :p

Whether that's healthy or not depends on what you mean by "disrespect."

You should shock them a bit. Even offend them. Aim for "mouth open, brow all wrinkled up" but not "frowning and delivering lecture." Just say really outrageous stuff which is in no way a personal criticism of them.

They love it. They'll gossip about it for weeks!

If the worst comes to the worst, you could always go visit some weirdo you met on the internet who bought you a plane ticket. That totally freaks them out for some reason.

*picks white hair out of nostril*

If the worst comes to the worst, you could always go visit some weirdo you met on the internet who bought you a plane ticket. That totally freaks them out for some reason.

*goes out and buys Nanatsu a plane ticket*

I am 100% in favor of this suggestion.

*goes out and buys Nanatsu a plane ticket*

I am 100% in favor of this suggestion.

I wonder why you're in favor of this suggestion?:cool:

I wonder why you're in favor of this suggestion?:cool:

No reason :D

No reason :D

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http://th106.photobucket.com/albums/m252/RiverIsMyGoddess/icons/th_smiley_fishslap.gif

This means war...
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Then we can have make-up sex...
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff315/Sarothai/Smileys/love-smiley-083.gif

This means war...
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff315/Sarothai/Smileys/star-wars-smiley-023.gif

Then we can have make-up sex...
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff315/Sarothai/Smileys/love-smiley-083.gif

Bring it, bitch!
http://www.smileyhut.com/fighting/box.gif

And then...
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I am 100% in favor of this suggestion.

I was thinking of you, actually. Weirdo, and a father as well. I think she needs that.

I can't even afford a bus ticket myself ;)

I was thinking of you, actually. Weirdo, and a father as well. I think she needs that.

I can't even afford a bus ticket myself ;)

Nor can I, but that's beside the point.

This means war...
*snip smiley*

Then we can have make-up sex...
*snip smiley*

You know, I'm a broad-minded old codger.

But I'm close to reporting an inappropriate link ... which is a smiley ...


I feel old.

You know, I'm a broad-minded old codger.

But I'm close to reporting an inappropriate link ... which is a smiley ...


I feel old.

If I remember correctly you're not that much older than I am.

Nor can I, but that's beside the point.

I am hugely reassured.

Tho, sometimes I wonder if the whole Spain thing is made up, and Nans is actually my mother. Mom has been spending a lot of time on the internet recently. And she's quite broad-minded.

I am hugely reassured.

Tho, sometimes I wonder if the whole Spain thing is made up, and Nans is actually my mother. Mom has been spending a lot of time on the internet recently. And she's quite broad-minded.

Yes, dearie, I am your mother.

:p

Yes, dearie, I am your mother.

:p

Must... resist.... inappropriate comment.... must.... not yield.....

Must... resist.... inappropriate comment.... must.... not yield.....

You...must... make... said... inappropriate comment... you.... must.... yield...

Hey Nan, where do I send the pl
If the worst comes to the worst, you could always go visit some weirdo you met on the internet who bought you a plane ticket. That totally freaks them out for some reason.

pl...postcard... yeah, postcard... that's what I wanted to send... :D

Must... resist.... inappropriate comment.... must.... not yield.....You...must... make... said... inappropriate comment... you.... must.... yield...

The Farce is strong with NB. but one should never underestimate the power of the Dark Side of the Farce.

a very nice way to get the cops at your door that.

or your lights knocked out

or your lights knocked out

well common sense is don't do it to someone bigger then you.

I was at the border once waiting in line for the train. An old woman walked right to the front and when the guard told her this wasn't allowed, she just kept smiling and nodding and repeating, "Oh but I'm old"

Oh, gods, my grandma does this all the time!!! She seems to think that the laws of physics will bend to her will because she's 87! Once, she decided to cash out one of her under performing annuities. The day after my mom made the call, she started bitching about how 'they' were conspiring to keep her money. Because a big company can go through the process of cashing out an investment in six hours, and make the check magically appear. :rolleyes:

Don't get me wrong, I love my grandma, but she drives me nuts sometimes!

At the studio where I worked, we had a handful of guys who couldn't check their egos at the door when they were asked to work on a project. One by one, they quit or got laid off, and have been struggling for our attention ever since, posting about how the company is career suicide or how there's no respect for talent...meanwhile, those of us who can stomach actual toil and deal with occasionally being asked to help out after work hours grimace in sympathy..not for their loss of work, but for their lack of perspective and unbearable ego.

I take in account that older people have experience in more things than me. And I would never dare be disrespectful towards someone with as many white hairs (that's an expression we use in Spain) as say, my grandfather. But... don't my own opinions count to the old too? Why, oh why don't they listen?! :p


Well probably because they are old. Hearing goes out you know. ;)

So, you have a job then?

Being a student, why would I compromise my degree by taking employment?

However, yes, I do have a job arranged for the summer. I'm working as a chocolateer in a company the proprietor of which my mum knows.

Being a student, why would I compromise my degree by taking employment?

However, yes, I do have a job arranged for the summer. I'm working as a chocolateer in a company the proprietor of which my mum knows.

Watch out for the Oompah Loompahs

Watch out for the Oompah Loompahs

I'm actually rather excited. Free chocolate, driving about to sell the bloody stuff, and, I hope, oompah loompahs!

Being a student, why would I compromise my degree by taking employment?


How many hours a week do you honestly spend on uni work?

I'm actually rather excited. Free chocolate, driving about to sell the bloody stuff, and, I hope, oompah loompahs!

If you manage to catch one can I have it stuffed and hang it over my 'fireplace'* ?

*'fireplace' may be a bit of an exagerration considering it's made out of newspaper

Well probably because they are old. Hearing goes out you know. ;)

Hard of hearing and hard of head. That would explain it, yeah.:p

Hey Nan, where do I send the pl


pl...postcard... yeah, postcard... that's what I wanted to send... :D

To the Spanish Inquisition's HQs of course.:D

If you manage to catch one can I have it stuffed and hang it over my 'fireplace'* ?

*'fireplace' may be a bit of an exagerration considering it's made out of newspaper

Deal.

How many hours a week do you honestly spend on uni work?

Depends. I make a point of doing 2 hours a day at ,least, on top of any tuition I have, and often do more. On average, anything from 20 to 40 hours.

No-one deserves to be a victim of theft (or indeed any crime) but for some who are it's pretty much impossible to have any sympathy for them whatsoever. This guy definitely fits into that category.

Anyone you've met/seen/heard of recently that matches this?
(and please no-one post about Ted Kennedy!)


I used to live/work in this apartment building as security for the place, and trust me, what you wrote fits in with most South Americans [mostly people from argentina]

There was a large group of south americans living in the building, and they would party about 4-5 nights a week, and at the end of the night, they would leave all their stuff and all their crap in the common room they used to party in

every morning after , i would go down to this common room, and find they had left their personal radio/stereo, plus at least 40 music CDs, some jackets, and other valuable stuff, just lying there where anyone passing through could grab stuff,...

then maybe 2 days later, they would come ask me if i had seen that stuff, as much as I was tempted to say NO, i did my duty and grabbed it out of my office for them, only to find it back in the common room the next morning, and have the same '2 days later' follow up from them

one brazilian guy even once came to me and said he left his jacket there 3 days ago, and could i look on the cameras to see who took it - i didnt want to so I asked the landlord about a yes/no, and thankfully he confirmed my no

If others in the world are this friggin sad and pathetic to hope and pray for the world to be a happy good place where crime doesnt happen, then they deserve the reality where things go missing