So last night we threw a little party at my house. Nothing huge, we got a keg and had about 15 or so people over. Things go pretty smoothly and we have a good time. About an hour after the keg gets finished, I go outside to make sure there's no one standing on the front porch (don't want the cops called on us). I notice a group of people leaving our house, walking along the sidewalk. I'm not sure why it raised a red flag in my mind, but I could see one of the people in this group carrying what appeared to be a plastic guitar. All of a sudden I realized that he was stealing my Guitar Hero (it's a PS2 game if you haven't heard of it) guitar controller. I shouted at him to stop and he sprinted ahead down the street. I chased him for a couple blocks and I thought he might get away as I lost stamina, but I shouted at some other random people on the street to stop him, and one of these guys managed to catch the thief and get my guitar back. He let the thief go right away which confused me, but I was just happy to to the guitar returned. I walked back home and started boasting to my roomates about how I recoved the stolen guitar, when I realized that my Playstation 2 had disappeared! I was pretty bummed, I have to say.
But then one of the guests who was still at my house said that he noticed this kid he went to high school with fiddling with the PS2's power cord a few minutes before it got stolen. He only knew this guy's first name, but I decided to log on to Facebook just to see what I could dig up. Sure enough, he had a full profile, including his university email address. With this, I was able to run a people search on my university's website and get his cell phone number.
One of my roomates called the number and sure enough the guy picks up. My roomate starts screaming threats and profanities, but the guy on the phone claims ignorance at first, but then tries to convince us that the power cord is lying on the ground outside the window near where the PS2 had been sitting. I checked just to be sure that it wasn't there but the fact that he tried to claim this made me believe that he knew more than what he was telling us. The only trouble was that we had no idea how to find this guy, he wouldn't answer his phone anymore, and the police around here don't do much to investigate thefts (especially on a crappy console that's not even worth $100).
I look on his Facebook profile again and look at the groups he is a member of. One of them stands out immediately, since the title is the intersection of two nearby streets. I look at the group's page and not only is he an officer in the group, it also gives us an exact street address for this house. I make another call to his cellphone, I leave a message saying that I know his address and that my roomates and I are coming over to have a chat. Within three minutes I get a call back from him telling me that I can find my Playstation on the porch in front of his house. We head over there and find it on his neighbor's front steps. Yep...
And if that wasn't weird enough, this same guy comes back over to our house an hour or two later, claims it was his roomate that stole it, and apologizes for their behavior. I was tempted to, you know, castrate him but it certainly takes some balls to come back over the same freaking night you stole something. So I shook his hand and sent him on his way.
Ok I'm done, now feel free to tell me why this thread sucks...
But then one of the guests who was still at my house said that he noticed this kid he went to high school with fiddling with the PS2's power cord a few minutes before it got stolen. He only knew this guy's first name, but I decided to log on to Facebook just to see what I could dig up. Sure enough, he had a full profile, including his university email address. With this, I was able to run a people search on my university's website and get his cell phone number.
One of my roomates called the number and sure enough the guy picks up. My roomate starts screaming threats and profanities, but the guy on the phone claims ignorance at first, but then tries to convince us that the power cord is lying on the ground outside the window near where the PS2 had been sitting. I checked just to be sure that it wasn't there but the fact that he tried to claim this made me believe that he knew more than what he was telling us. The only trouble was that we had no idea how to find this guy, he wouldn't answer his phone anymore, and the police around here don't do much to investigate thefts (especially on a crappy console that's not even worth $100).
I look on his Facebook profile again and look at the groups he is a member of. One of them stands out immediately, since the title is the intersection of two nearby streets. I look at the group's page and not only is he an officer in the group, it also gives us an exact street address for this house. I make another call to his cellphone, I leave a message saying that I know his address and that my roomates and I are coming over to have a chat. Within three minutes I get a call back from him telling me that I can find my Playstation on the porch in front of his house. We head over there and find it on his neighbor's front steps. Yep...
And if that wasn't weird enough, this same guy comes back over to our house an hour or two later, claims it was his roomate that stole it, and apologizes for their behavior. I was tempted to, you know, castrate him but it certainly takes some balls to come back over the same freaking night you stole something. So I shook his hand and sent him on his way.
Ok I'm done, now feel free to tell me why this thread sucks...
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