As my regulars (or irregulars, as the case may be) may know, I’ve been holding off on updating my blog on account of some other exciting development work on redandwhiteonline.com - and also because I’m going to update this blog too. But I think I have to weigh in with something.

We went to see Jewel at the Opera House on friday night (as I type, it’s 2:45am.. ugh) - see review below - and The Jay parked the car at our usual el cheapo spot behind UTS. If you time it just right, you can feed the meter with parking for 2 hours, then it’s free.

Well, after we walked back to the car from Central (we were parked on Thomas St, parallel to Broadway), we passed a BMW with its window smashed. Poor bugger, I thought. Hope our car’s okay. At first glance, nothing seemed amiss. As The Jay approached the passenger side door, she noticed the contents of the glovebox all over the passenger seat. Then we saw the broken window - it was actually the smallest panel of glass, the rear panel on the left rear door. There was glass all over the back seat, as well as the Jay’s empty iPod case. Her bag was missing too.

After the necessary obscenities and cursing of the culprit’s family unto seventeen generations, I took a closer look at the mess on the passenger side floor. To my amazement and relief, in amongst the junk on the floor was a 20GB iPod. Still working as well as it ever did, and in no worse condition than when we left it. After a thorough search, I came to the conclusion that somewhere in Sydney there was someone wandering around who should be locked up for their safety, so that they won’t hurt themselves with their IMMENSE STUPIDITY.

As a recap, here’s what the thief DIDN’T take:

• 20GB iPod - Value maybe around $400-500 nowadays
• 3 pairs of sunglasses - Value around $500
• The Jay’s school keys
• the spare change in the car, about $2-3 worth
• Toll pass - worth as much in tolls as you wanted to do until we cancelled it
• 2 cassette adapters, worth about $30 each
• Phone charger
• USB/Firewire charger
• Club Lock
• Entire contents of the boot, mostly just clothes

What they took:

• The Jay’s STM backpack - about $120
• The contents of said bag, just teachers workplans etc - worth absolutely nothing to anyone apart from the teacher who owns it, who now has to compile it all again

Congratulations, you are Sydney’s Most Stupid Thief.

We reported it to the police, but I don’t hold out much hope. The bag is probably dumped in a bin somewhere (I scoured the area a block in every direction, but didn’t have any luck despite looking in just about every bin in there). Luckily no one was hurt, and the more expensive items were inexplicably left untouched, but it’s still a major hassle (especially to She Who Must Now Redo Her Entire Term’s Planning And So Is Understandably A Little Snappish Right Now), and a sad reflection on humanity in general. Honestly, is there anything wrong with working to earn your money in a legal way?

I guess it’s a lesson that the area is well dodgy, and we’ll certainly be using parking stations from here on in. People suck.

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