Off topic. Home & container broken into, jewelry & all tools gone.....

[Whitewolf]

Sorry for off topic. Could not resist. Due to the many fine people on here and there high IQ I simply could not resist.

A week before coming here....from 3,000 miles away my home was broken into. Approximately $5,000 worth of Indian jewelry gone. Collected over 38 years of marriage to a now deceased wife. The memories of the purchases and the thoughts behind them more important than the dollars.

Shipping container broken into and all power tools and sockets, wrenches, saws, everything gone. As a working man I do not go out and buy expensive tool at the drop of a hat. So the lifetime collection of useful tools gone really sucks.

Now have to deal with a sheriff's report list to make out and another list for the insurance company. Several times tempted to cheat and include something that was in effect really stolen but not of this incident. But, I can't bring myself to do that. Friends with experience suggest I make it as high a dollar loss as possible. But....I just gotta keep it real.

Apologize for non fishing subject. I often wish there was a board for "Off Topic" subjects because of the many good and fine people on here.

Obviously any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Jim

[cycler68]

That really sucks. I hope you have good insurance that will pay for replacing your tools. My sympathies to you on the loss of the jewelry that you collected with your wife. That can never really be replaced.

[herefishy]

So sorry for your troubles, Jim.

[xfishcop]

Whitewolf,
Really sorry to read of your misfortune. But heartened when I read that in spite of it - you are remaining true to what is right.
Praying for you.
Dick

[Whitewolf]

Yup. I am supposed to be enjoying the AZ sun....but it is stressful dealing with all the issues now. It has happened to others so I am not destroyed by it. It is but just a bump in the road of life. Not the end of it. I trust somewhere down the line...a few years from now God willing I will still be on this planet, doing something, somewhere.....so it is just an inconvience.

I came on here to ask admin to delete this thread. But it is comforting to see the comments of others. tks

Jim

[jimsnarocks]

Hi Jim, That is really a shame to be victimized like that. It would be nice to have the thieves caught and your treasures returned. I will pray for that. Jim

[DaleW]

One really cannot grasp the significance of this kind of "event" until it happens to YOU. Jim, I'm with you in spirit, I know the feeling and the experience. Like you say, the paper work and having to figure out what was what and what you had.
Good luck, and cling to the thought that there is a higher law of reciprocity, call it Karma if you like, that will revisit and repay the culprits many times over.

[WarrenP]

Jim,

Really hated to her this, but, this sort of thing seems to be happening more and more lately. One thing you can do is keep a check on your local Pawn shops to see if any of these items show up. The down side of this is to be able to prove that what you find there is yours. One thing that you can do ( and I need to do it myself ) is to take a picture of things you purchase to replace lost items and make sure the picture has the Model and S/N number showing. With the new digital cameras, this would be the best way to prove that the item found in the Pawn shop is yours.

Good luck and keep the faith...

[hap]

I had a hunting pack stolen on a very short flight from Kodiak to Anchorage many years ago. I filled out the insurance forms and was treated properly by the insurance company, but over time realized I had forgotten a lot of stuff that had to have been in that pack. The pack itself was many hundreds of dollars and a Zeiss ClassiC binocular bumped the money up significantly...

I cannot begin to imagine remembering more than a fraction of what was lost. And I have a memory most would have killed for.

[rayhill190]

That sucks but remember they can't steal the memory's.