#i found this on fb and im seething

[luidilovins]

I am so fucking pissed

[prorevenge]

I’m not paying a finders fee for stolen property. Thief earns himself a felony instead.

I had just moved to a new city for work and had been working here for about 3 months so I am still pretty new to the area. My apartment complex I would say is in a nicer part of the city and is pretty well kept so I didn’t really expect anyone to go and try breaking into cars. I was set to travel and had a pretty early drive so I had packed everything for my week long trip the night before so that I could get up and just get on the road.

The next morning I walk out to my car and I see clothes off to the side of my car and thinking it was weird started to look around the car. Turns out my car had been broken into and was cleaned out. Out of the trunk they took my laptop bag which had both my personal computer and a government computer, 2 gyms bags (one that had my work clothes and the other had my workout clothes and personal hygiene stuff), and a backpack that had my Nintendo switch and office supplies in it. They also took ~$50 out of the console where I keep change and random bills for parking. This obviously throws a wrench into my work travel so I call my supervisor explain the situation and come back into work. It’s my fault I left all that stuff in my car so I had to go to our security/IT office and explain what had happened and see what the next steps were to get a new work computer.

During this meeting with the Physical Security Manager which was 3 hours after I found my car broken into I get a call from a local number and turns out this guy had “found” my laptops on the side of the road when he was coming home from visiting his mom. My bag had a ‘contact me if found ### ### ####’ Conversation goes as follows:

Guy: “Hey man, I found your laptops on the side of the road I figured you would want them back. They look pretty important” (Government laptops are plastered with stickers with official jargon and returning instructions)

Me: “For sure! I am currently at work now but I can come meet you or whatever works”

Guy: “Yeah man Im just coming back from visiting my mom so I am trying to get to home so I can relax.”

Me: “Cool, I can make it work, can you text me your address and everything so I can just come to you?”

Guy: “Ill send it to you here in a second, Its also my birthday so if I could get some money for like a finders fee or whatever I think that would be cool”

Me: “Yeah man whatever you need. See you in a bit.”

As soon as I get off the phone I call the local police in that area and explain that this guy is trying to extort money from me to get stolen goods back. They instruct me to meet them a few blocks away from the residence and they will send a plain clothes cop and officers to act on my behalf so I am not in direct contact with the guy just in case since the situation sounds sketchy. I go and meet them where they go to the residence. The guy is hesitant seeing the cop cars and takes a few minutes to return the bag. With the laptops in it. They bring the bag to me to identify the laptops and everything’s still there. I accept the bag and got my laptops and bag back. Easy enough…

On the drive back to work, no more than 15 minutes later this guy still had my number and starts going off… bad unreadable spelling and all is seething through text messages on how I could get the police involved, he was trying to be a ‘good samritian’ and he should have thrown my shit in the ‘grabig’. So I did the normal thing and blocked the number.

Now I’m still missing everything else including the Nintendo switch which was in a case with 7 games (important). I was originally going to take the loss on it and take it as a “stupidity” tax since it was almost impossible to get back. However, something didn’t sit right with me with this guy and thinking if he did have it he was going to try to sell it fast and cheap. I went onto FB Marketplace and craigslist searching for a switch for cheap around the same location as his house..

BINGO!!!

The ad read “$200 – Nintendo switch with 7 games and case lightly used, no charger or dock. Must be gone today” The location was enabled and was within 2 miles of his address, the phone number was the same, and the dock and charger were in my apartment. So I had a buddy of mine who lived in the next city over contact him asking if he could hold onto it til tomorrow since he wouldn’t be in town until the next day and he would pay him $300 instead. The dude agrees and also gets him to read off all 7 games that were there. This was to buy us more time so I can go coordinate with the police.

The next morning I get everything together to go make a case to police to assist me with this: Police report, the craigslist ad, the serial number from Nintendo, the screenshots of the text messages between him and my buddy. I make my case and the police agree to do the same thing as the day before and meet me somewhere else to go over what the plan was. I meet them and go over his address and what all I had missing. These are different officers than the day before and they recognize the address and the name.

We found out this guy is known for this stuff and is currently on probation. So we come up with a plan where my buddy will call us on his work phone so we can hear the conversation and call him on his regular phone to see what’s going on. The police use a plain car go to this meet up spot and acting like my buddy scoop the guy up and get him to cough up the rest of the stolen goods. They were able to recover all my items including all my clothes and bags. He ends up going to jail and earns a new felony on his record for receiving stolen property.

I think I would have lost the rest of it if I didn’t do the digging on FB Marketplace and Craigslist.

TLDR: Car got broken into and had >$2,000 worth of stuff stolen, thief calls me for a finders fee. After some craigslist perusing ended up getting everything back and the thief a new felony charge.

(source) story by (/u/D0ugieFresh)

[luidilovins]

FUCK YOU! You don't control me! I get to choose the pantone of MY year ! GET WEEZERED!!

I am so fucking pissed