I just woke up had my shower and I've sit down on the computer with a nice cup of tea. I took the day off work today, I'm somewhat depressed. I'm 25 years old (26 in April) and I've amassed quite a large video game collection. I have miscellaneous pop culture items wither it be statues, comics, or movies. I've managed to work hard and buy a home for my girlfriend and I at a young age. However I have a fault - I'm materialistic - but at the same time im proud of it, I just LOVE to collect stuff (and display it nicely
)
My girlfriend and I are a small family of gamers. And I mean WE ARE GAMERS. Before bed the cat curl's up at our feet and purr away waiting for her scrub and we boot a handheld to play. The handhelds we keep in our nightstand's, wither we boot up a DS to Catch em all in Pokemon, or the 3DS to play Mario (Lily just bought me a brand new 3DS XL for Christmas - I think the motive was to get my hand-me-down
). We both have Vita's for a quick match of PS All Stars. Along with the handhelds are an iPad, Gameboy Micro, a GP2X Wiz, and a beautiful custom painted Gameboy Colour painted by our very own Zoki64 from these forums. I keep most of the handhelds in the cloth cases Nintendo offers for their Nintendo points.
Well yesterday two men broke into our place. The thief's went straight for bedrooms drawers and pulled everything out. Clothes were everywhere and of course the night stands are empty.
In our spare room I have a deflated blowup mattress in the corner folded away nicely in the large sac it came in, They took the large sac and used it to take about 200 blurays. Next to the blurays were the handheld games, they took those too. ALL OF THEM. Two Laptops tucked nicely away in a very grabable leather case. Lily's PS3 in the bedroom with her custom painted white and purple controller were snatched as well.
Materialistic loss aside I feel violated. Not to mention a little bit fearful if they come back again for round 2. Obviously we are looking into an alarm system, but these guys were pro's so I'm not sure if an alarm system is much of a deterrent for them. The police have said it took them 5 seconds to crowbar out deadbolt and somehow open the lock, and they were in and out in about 2-3 minutes.
I'm still taking an inventory or what's lost I'm at about $14,000 so far. Even though insurance will cover most of it I am just down in the dumps. It's a hassle to replace everything and I'm very much upset about the things that can't be replaced. Lily's is really upset that her custom painted controller is gone and oddly enough it's the un-replaceable case that came with the PS Vita's first edition that stings me the most.
I am so very thankful no one was home and my cat was not hurt. I have my suspicions they kicked her out of the way but overall she seems okay. I guess life just deals you a crap hand once and a while.
