So, the husband and I drove up to Melaka to see the state of our house, post ransacked and robbed. But before we went to the house, the husband and I went shopping for Eid for the kids. I half suspect he wanted me to be in a better mood before we head on to the crime scene. And it worked. We got the kids' nice clothes and most importantly, they fit!
Anyways we were driving up, I imagined to see stuff strewn all over the place, police tape that says "Crime Scene" in blue and white, and even graffiti. You know, stuff you see on CSI all the time, except, of course our crime scene had no bodies. It would be a different type of post if there were...snapping out of macabre over-active imagination now.
But when we got there, everything looked the same. The husband's cousin who drops in on the house every now and then had cleaned the crime scene up for us. He had to describe to us the chaos that he found the house in.
The thieves got away with two home theater systems - one in the spare bedroom that we turned into a movie room, and another in the living room.
The system from the movie room was courtesy of my sister-in-law who had to junk her stuff to make way for her shiny new system. It wasn't working really well - we had to turn it on for a couple of minutes before we could get it to work and then the volume control was out of whack so in the middle of a movie, there would be no audio. Or sometimes it just gets LOUD for no apparent reason. And we were thinking of junking it anyway. The thieves did us a favour by taking all of those away. I just wished they took all the cables that came with it too.
The better system was the one in the living room, courtesy of Mrs Bhutia. They took all of it, except for one speaker - those losers, can't even get a job done right.
But I started getting angry when I saw some cigarette ashes and after I was told there were cigarette butts all over the house. Damn them for smoking in my house!
We got the husband's cousin to put in new padlocks and we need to remember to thank our neighbours for helping to keep a look-out as well. The cousin said the neighbours were really helpful in contacting the police and helping to alert him as soon as they realised what had happened.
So, it's like that.
2 comments:
A girl on my floor freshman year of university had her laptop stolen. The thieves didn't take the cord so she posted it on her door for a week in case they wanted to come back for it. A cord without a laptop was useless to her and the laptop is only good to other people as long as the battery lasts. No avail.
LOL, that's funny! Although petty thieves have been known to revisit the crime scene.
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