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Registered Member #139
Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 11:01AM
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 358
Hey, Sorry for my leave of abscence, but it was forced
Please, to anyone out there with anything of value in their house, INSURE IT.
I just had my house broken into. Here is a list of what went missing.
Canon G5 Digital camera Sony Trinitron TV Sony Hi-Fi Oscilloscope Printer Computer 19" Monitor Components etc Other Bits (Soldering Iron DMM's etc)
So some sloping foreheaded retard is sat in his cave scratching his puckered arse looking at my PC saying to himself "What is Ubuntu" He also has a box with Semi's (460's 40n60's UCC's etc etc) That will probably end in the bin./
Registered Member #139
Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 11:01AM
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 358
Very much so. I had most of my parts in old icecream containers on my desk, looks like they just swept everything off the table.
The worst thing was when they dragged the stuff off, the dropped the Variac, smashed the control knob and bent the shaft, the only thing they left me with is now totally useless.
Registered Member #56
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
Posts: 2445
wow, that sucks!
Whenever I read accounts like this I think of a rocket story I read about. This teenager build a all fiberglass rocket capable of mach+ speeds for a science project (complete with all of the electronic goodies) and had it in a case sitting in his truck. One day it was gone The thing is that there was no value to the thief (being a one of a kind rocket he couldn't sell it and he had no use for it), so all of the student's work got thrown away...
Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
Posts: 4062
Hmm. That sucks.
Someone I know in Australia had their house broken into recently; we are in agreement (for once) that the appropriate punishment should be painful, degrading and ensure they will never do anything like it again (gelding with rusty garden shears perhaps?)
Failing that, sending said individual to the surface of Venus without a spacesuit..
Registered Member #81
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 11:57AM
Location: Paris, France
Posts: 43
Imagine you had left some capacitor charged at lethal voltages. It's definitely a bad idea to break into a 4hv guy house. -"what that ?" -"okay switch it on" - zapped
Registered Member #99
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:10PM
Location: florida, usa
Posts: 637
I had my place robbed over xmas...They were pulling up for a second load when i had returned home from out of town and took off...Took my computer, huge TV, GFs xmas present, watch, all sortsa stuff, even MY SPARE CHANGE! Took my roomates checks and got alot from him! In all around 2000$ total lost(thats alot for a starving college student with a lust for HV )
Ive since thought of all sorts of sadistic,HEINOUS, punishments for them, but just had deadbolts installed on all the rooms and put a wooden pole in my window(point of entry) Perhaps filling him with iron filings and placing him in an MRI?
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Robbing tea-leaves.
The thing is that there was no value to the thief (being a one of a kind rocket he couldn't sell it and he had no use for it), so all of the student's work got thrown away...
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