Terrific for Me

So, now it appears that I will be going to Dallas, Houston, and Beaumont TX, Albuquerque NM, and West Palm Beach FL. So, I might be in some of the crappiest places on earth (and flying over them inside of a deathtrap called an airplane) for what could be two weeks, depending on the amount of work involved at each site. Suck. Beaumont TX? What the hell?

As for this weekend, I am outta here friday night to go to Sandy Llego for a fun filled 3 years olds birthday party on saturday. So the future Mrs. and I are going to stay the night friday and come home after the party saturday. Which means either saturday night or sunday I am ready to rock BattleBlecch or BB or Halo or whatevers.

My Life of Crime

So Leslies car is broken into monday morning before we are awake. Her wallet, purse, bookbag, books and radio faceplate are stolen. We call and cancel the credit cards and find out that they have been used repeatedly that morning at gas stations and Office Despot. We call the Despot and find out that the manager saw the transactions taking place and knew somethi9ng was wrong because the guys made a large purchase, left, then came back with a different card, made another large purchase and left again. Lets not get into the fact that neither time did they card these gentlemen, but whatever....

Anyway, we go to the Torrance PD and file a report, telling them that we know someone who has seen the perpetrators use the cards and have video tapes of them using the cards. They say they will get back to us. Right. Wednesday we get a call from Discover Card saying the card was declined today blah blah. Great, so we know again these guys used the card in the area, so they are active, too bad the cops aren't.

So then today Leslie got a call from someone a block over from us that has some of her stuff in her trash can along with some stuff from someone else's shit that was stolen too. Great. So we get the info for the other guy who was robbed, call the cops AGAIN to tell them that we have more of a lead to get these bastards, and the clerk tells us our case number isn't coming up at all and that it has yet to filed, apparently. So here we are, sitting on all these leads, all this evidence, and nothing.

All this got me thinking: what the hell am I working for if I can steal shit out of cars, and use stolen credit cards without being ID'd, and suffer no ill effects because there are seemingly no ramifications for doing so? I mean, we have all this information, what they look like, where they have been, fingerprints, etc. and not even a call back from the cops. Not even a call back.

Now, I understand there are larger crimes being committed blah blah, but there are a TON of cops with nothing to do, I see them everyday, why not send one patrol car to the Office Depot, get a report from the manager who saw the "perps" and do something about it!

Good grief.