Happy Dance! Happy Dance!

[salsabike]

YAY! How damn gratifying.

[LBTC]

Yay! I'm glad for you V, and I hope it's not too creepy when you have to go there.

Hugs and happy butterflies,
~T~

[KnottedYet]

Very good! I hope the burglars get prosecuted to the fullest extent, and hope you get some of your things back!

[sbctwin]

I am very happy for you...after our two ransackings, nothing of ours was ever recovered...

[Veronica]

These people were icky! Their apartment was being subsidized by an adoption agency in southern CA. The agency pays your rent until you have a kid. You then give it up for adoption. They had a baby last month, born addicted to meth and gave it up for adoption.

All of our stuff reeks of smoke.

V.

[pooks]

Oh dear.

[Geonz]

That's utterly wretched.

[Blueberry]

That sucks - but at least you got some stuff back, and they caught the guys.

Hopefully it will bring some closure.

[missymaya]

I'm glad you can get your stuff back and Im also glad they caught the thieves. I hope your stuff is ok but better yet, I hope this brings closure.

[bikerchick68]

I am SO happy to hear this news! Good for the police for moving on it... hopefully they'll actually serve some time. It sickens me about the adoption thing. I have pretty strong opinions about drug use, criminals and sex offenders as far as what should be done... (I'll leave it at that, or I could easily start a board war here. )

So will you keep your stuff now, or get rid of it? I wonder if I'd be torn or if I'd just KNOW what I wanted to do with it... hard to say without having been there...

very happy for you guys that they caught these losers. Good, good news

[Mr. Bloom]

Does that mean you get to sue for the cost of your ruined vacation?

[Veronica]

They have nothing, who would I sue? But Brandi's pictures of Hawaii are just killing me.

Thom talked to the insurance adjuster. We can either give them the recovered items as salvage or give back the money they gave us for the item. I expect we'll work it out on a case by case basis.

The good thing is most of our personal paperwork was still in their apartment. So in a few years we can stop worrying about someone trying to get credit as us.

The thing about the adoption agency is just depressing. I've never wanted kids, so I can only imagine how awful it must be to want them and to be unable to conceive. So you pay oodles of money to an agency, who is supposed to make sure you get a healthy baby. But the agency clearly didn't do much of a background check on these two or any sort of follow up. The chick was wanted for something else, so didn't even have the option for bail. The agency had been paying their rent for 18 months!

It's just gross all around. I sincerely hope that whoever has the baby now, loves it and gives it a good chance at life. It's going to be a rough road for that kid. I can only imagine what being born already addicted to something must to do to a little one's health and growth. It makes me sick, that total lack of concern for a life you created. I'd like to see them get some nasty punishment for that too!

V.

[Adventure Girl]

Any chance you got your laptop back?

[Veronica]

No, I was hoping.... the detective looked for it specifically too.

But, we decided to go back to being a one computer household. It has cut down on the amount of idle surfing we each do.

V.

[Aggie_Ama]

I was going to post the same thing about the adoption agency/baby thing. Ugh, it is absolutely disgusting that they were being paid to have a kid. I work with a woman who is going through the stress of adopting and she said she worries most that the birth mother is going to have given a darn her whole pregnancy.

I am glad you got your stuff back, at least there is some closure.