CAUTION: WORDS

but i promise its interesting!

i started off today with a flat tire... went to class... the AAA guy came to fix said tire...

i wait 45 minutes at the Ford dealer to realize that I left my backpack with my money and EVERYTHING in it sitting on the curb on METHOD road (bad idea) and had nothing to pay the guys with

I flip out and call my boss to see if she sees it since it was left in front of my work, she doesnt see it, i call the cops who insist they will call me back...

i go to talk to some homeless people who sit outside on method all day long to see if they saw anything... of course they didnt

come back in and hour to buy them dinner because i am a nice person and i wanted to see if they had heard anything

my mom calls... they have found my backpack... the homeless guy who picked it up tried to use my debit card 2x, my credit card 3x (and succeeded in buying about $10 worth of stuff from food lion) had been riding around on a bicycle with my backpack on... he got hit by a car and was in the ICU

crazy day

got my backpack back with MOST of the stuffs in it yaaaayy!

sorry for all the words

9/23/2008 11:19:08 PM

9/23/2008 11:20:11 PM

9/23/2008 11:21:12 PM

so what you're saying is...

b/c you bought some homeless people dinner to extort information from them, you got your backpack back via a homeless man on a bike being hit by a car?

9/23/2008 11:21:46 PM

yay, bad things only happen to bad people

9/23/2008 11:22:08 PM

it'd be a better story if the bum didn't use your credit card to buy FOOD.

9/23/2008 11:22:45 PM

oh well, i thought it was pretty crazy and worth creating a thread... maybe i was wrong

9/23/2008 11:27:22 PM

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"he got hit by a car and was in the ICU"

Holy fuck. You better pray he gets better now.

I mean, it's not quite like he robbed you, you left your stuff in a highly public place and walked away. It's sort of like dropping your wallet while walking through the mall.

I could easily see justifying his getting arrested (if this had happened) as karma, but it's not like he committed a violent act that would necessitate a violent act being done to him in order to restore balance in the universe.

It's good you got your stuff back, but don't be too happy about the guy getting nailed by the car. That's a little... strange...

9/23/2008 11:30:22 PM

hope your backpack wasn't bloody or anything. that would suck.

9/23/2008 11:31:48 PM

^^^ oh it's threadworthy, i'm just not sure it's karma.

9/23/2008 11:32:39 PM

Reminds me a lot of Lola Rennt.

9/23/2008 11:33:21 PM

omg noooo i am not happy about it

the biggest response from my friends was "karmas a bitch" which is why i titled the thread that, i really am NOT happy that he got hit. the officer advised me to press charges but i assured him i wouldnt b/c i feel like he's been through enough now i feel bad

9/23/2008 11:34:22 PM

thats hilarious

9/24/2008 1:15:57 AM

It wasn't Stinky McChillsalot was it?

9/24/2008 1:23:17 AM

did he get hit in front of Taco Bell? i saw some EMTs and mess out there the other night

9/24/2008 1:28:15 AM

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"it'd be a better story if the bum didn't use your credit card to buy FOOD."

For all you know he bought some beer and was drinking and bicycling

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"I mean, it's not quite like he robbed you, you left your stuff in a highly public place and walked away. It's sort of like dropping your wallet while walking through the mall."

Yeah and an honest person would turn the wallet in to the cops or the nearest store

I have found at least a dozen wallets when working at the mall (people are dumb lol) and never once did I consider scamming their credit cards.

9/24/2008 1:29:02 AM

^That's because you are a good person, unlike 90% of the shitheads on this site who would sell their mother down the river for a quarter on the sidewalk.

9/24/2008 1:54:26 AM

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"CAUTION: WORDS"

I stopped reading there

9/24/2008 1:58:37 AM

^ It was actually a decent story.

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"the officer advised me to press charges but i assured him i wouldnt b/c i feel like he's been through enough now i feel bad"

Why should you feel bad, you didn't press charges like many people would have.

9/24/2008 6:49:32 AM

i realized quick enough that my bag had been picked up by someone and canceled the cards so that he only got in like one purchase. My roommate did point out the fact that even if I didnt prosecute, he was probably going to prosecute the person in the car who hit him... so that made me think for just a sec but if he's in that bad of shape money wise I dont know how successful he will be in pressing charges.

9/24/2008 7:53:31 AM

^ well he shouldnt have tried to use stolen debit/credit cards

fucker

9/24/2008 8:43:45 AM

i chuckled and said, out loud, "niiice" when I heard he got hit by a car


does that make me a bad person?

9/24/2008 8:47:27 AM

no

9/24/2008 8:48:42 AM

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"i chuckled and said, out loud, "niiice" when I heard he got hit by a car"

agreed, no...truth is, I thought the same thing.

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"he was probably going to prosecute the person in the car who hit him"

Doubt it, bikes have to follow the rules of the road so it's the same as a car + car accident. I'd say he was probably not esp. since he was running around trying to use stolen cards.

9/24/2008 8:52:51 AM

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"I mean, it's not quite like he robbed you, you left your stuff in a highly public place and walked away. It's sort of like dropping your wallet while walking through the mall."

just because she misplaced her items, doesnt give that guy the right to use her stuff

9/24/2008 8:55:27 AM

^BINGO

9/24/2008 8:56:06 AM

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"I mean, it's not quite like he robbed you, you left your stuff in a highly public place and walked away. It's sort of like dropping your wallet while walking through the mall. "

thats one of the dumbest things i have ever read.

9/24/2008 9:32:26 AM

i can't believe he only bought $10 worth of stuff

9/24/2008 10:13:22 AM

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"Yeah and an honest person would turn the wallet in to the cops or the nearest store "

if you were homeless you'd do the same thing. if you don't believe me, just watch batman begins.

9/24/2008 10:24:02 AM

haha, thanks for your support everyone!

I dont think im going to file anything although with the stuff he threw out and my backpack being useless b/c one of the straps is ripped off, i lost about $300 worth of stuff. He tossed a text book, TI-83, a binder, and my agenda... I think the court costs would be more than that hmmm???

p.s. if anyone sees a news article of a man riding a bike who got hit by a car late yesterday, send me the link!

9/24/2008 2:45:15 PM

it was interesting, and you are a nice person

9/24/2008 2:48:17 PM

shit i would press charges

9/24/2008 3:00:31 PM

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"it'd be a better story if the bum didn't use your credit card to buy FOOD"

im willing to bet he bought 2 40's and a pack of newports

9/24/2008 3:14:36 PM

i'm mad i read this thread.
i hate people.

9/24/2008 3:26:58 PM

I just sent my backpack to L.L. Bean to see if they'd send me a new one yaaaay! I doubt it tho, its like 6 yrs old... their customer service over the phone told me to give it a shot tho, will post pics of new bag if I get it, LOL

9/24/2008 4:09:36 PM