Twenty to five in the afternoon, my cell phone starts ringing. The sound of Yellow Magic Orchestra's Key, from their 1981 masterpiece Technodelic, fills the air. My co-worker Peder likes the tune and I let it ring for a little while so he can enjoy it, then I answer.
It's Ingalill, the elderly - she's in her eighties I guess - neighbor who starts talking. "You're not at home?". I tell her I'm at work, and so is G. "Someone broken into your apartment".
I turns cold. Completely cold. I can feel the sweat coming, and then the rage. It's one hour and twenty minutes home, and I'm already on the brink to a breakdown. I try to reach G, but after a while I realize I'm texting him on his Polish number. The brain rarely works in situations like this.
There's so many scenarios going through my mind. I can't reach G at first and of course my imagination tells me he's in the apartment hurt. Then, because I can be a quite frantic anti-racist and very open about me being gay, maybe someone attacked us. Killed the cats, sprayed hateful messages on the walls? We had a very agressive (and Christian) anti-gay stalker a few years back, is he back?
The train takes fucking forever. Its like it stops the double amount of times on the way to the place we live. Ingalill and two other neighbors meet me, they haven't - which is good - entered the apartment. They called the police an hour ago, but still no coppers. I go inside, see how the bedroom is completely turned upside down. They did a quick search in the living room and hallway. Even the bathroom.
I'm getting paranoid. Why didn't they even touch the TV? Or computers? They could have sold the TV for a couple of thousand kronor, at least. The police gets there after three hours more. A very friendly cop with a big beard and nice, brown eyes. Kinda cute, in a bear-way. The thieves have stolen a couple of things: my two iphones, the S3 and S4. My Nexus tablet, G's new camera house, a D7000 Nikon and three of his lenses, probably also some polish money he had in one of the drawers in the bedroom.
The cats are scared shitless, but looks okay. They're happy we're home again.
But... but... they didn't even touch my massive collection of movies! I mean, what the hell?! I feel violated and sad. They could have sold those discs for a good amount of money! The DVD signed by both Lina Romay AND Jess Franco! All the limited editions, signed stuff, the slice of the Friday the 13th cabin! This is not just a crime against us, this is a crime against my movie collection! It's a crime against my movie taste! Against my collection of Alien rip-offs! Why didn't they even glance at the hundreds of Peplums and historical epics I own? What's wrong with the Mad Foxes blu-ray or the Carnosaur Collection?
I feel hurt. Or "kränkt" as we say in Sweden.
You can't trust anyone nowadays, not even the criminals.
Horrible!
The material stuff they took can be replaced (by insurance perhaps), but the most important thing is:
1. The cats are OK
2. It doesn't look like a hate-crime.
Posted by: Fredrik | November 20, 2013 at 10:19
You get robbed and you are insulted that they didn't steal your movies:))
Posted by: Caribbean Soul | November 20, 2013 at 14:08
Haha, they obviously had no idea what they were looking at! Stupid fuckers!
But of course, on a serious note, I'm happy they didn't take more - and most of all, that they didn't hurt the cats.
Posted by: Fred Anderson | November 20, 2013 at 14:11
"The sound of Yellow Magic Orchestra's Key, from their 1981 masterpiece Technodelic, fills the air."
Cool tune, thanks Fred.
"We had a very agressive (and Christian) anti-gay stalker a few years back, is he back?"
I suspect that that was messages from Megatroll.....if I´m right then you don´t need to worry.
Megatroll NEVER leaves the computer.
"Why didn't they even touch the TV? Or computers? They could have sold the TV for a couple of thousand kronor, at least."
Perhaps, but it could just be one thief......TV´s, computers could have been too heavy to carry......if just was a teenagers then that would been too difficult to carry and sell.
"The thieves have stolen a couple of things: my two iphones, the S3 and S4. My Nexus tablet, G's new camera house, a D7000 Nikon and two of his lenses, probably also some polish money he had in one of the drawers in the bedroom."
Damn.....well, at least nobody got hurt.....take comfort in that.
"But... but... they didn't even touch my massive collection of movies! I mean, what the hell?! I feel violated and sad. They could have sold those discs for a good amount of money! The DVD signed by both Lina Romay AND Jess Franco! All the limited editions, signed stuff, the slice of the Friday the 13th cabin! This is not just a crime against us, this is a crime against my movie collection! It's a crime against my movie taste! Against my collection of Alien rip-offs! Why didn't they even glance at the hundreds of Peplums and historical epics I own? What's wrong with the Mad Foxes blu-ray or the Carnosaur Collection?
I feel hurt. Or "kränkt" as we say in Sweden.
You can't trust anyone nowadays, not even the criminals."
hahahahhahahah...I for one, are very pleased lowlife scum like that don´t have any taste......what would I do without your reviews?
Well, I hope nothing important was stored on those Iphones, take care Fred.
Posted by: Megatron | November 20, 2013 at 17:07
"I suspect that that was messages from Megatroll.....if I´m right then you don´t need to worry"
No no, this one made direct references to my childhood, my family, spied on G when he visited ICA one day etc etc. In Swedish of course. It was a very intensive person. We think we know who it is.
Posted by: Fred Anderson | November 20, 2013 at 17:20
And as usual, thanks for reading and commenting :)
Posted by: Fred Anderson | November 20, 2013 at 17:21
Fred: Really sure about that?
I´m not so convinced.......because I remember reading about this on your old blog, I think it could be same person......and remember....Megatroll is swedish!
Anyway, you´re both fine so....yeah, hoping nothing more will happen to you.
Posted by: Megatron | November 20, 2013 at 19:51
They're two completely different persons. Believe me.
Posted by: Fred Anderson | November 20, 2013 at 20:34
Fred: Well...I´m not so sure.....he has done similar stuff before.....
Posted by: Megatron | November 21, 2013 at 16:59
fuck. glad you guys and the cats are alright.
Posted by: gk | November 21, 2013 at 18:16