29-10-2013 10:02 AM
Well my faith in Humanity has hit a new all time low....
Swishy Daughter and her boyfriend had a Halloween party at the weekend in their home...invitation only unless someone had a new 'plus one' but they expected those firends to vouch for them and you don't turn away someones new boyfriend/girlfriend if they arrive at the door as a couple do you?
A great time was had by all and many messages of thanks were sent to them both for the party.....
Until they started getting texts asking if people could call round to pick up phones and ipods that they thought they had left the night before..
Yup...you've guessed it.....nothing to be found,they turned the house upside down.
In total two iphones,Swishy Daughters ipod,a wallet and a pair of gold earrings have gone....one phone traced to a local phone shop but owner denies all knowledge so the police are now involved
Why does rubbish stuff happen to nice people .......
29-10-2013 10:11 AM
That's awful Was it a usual youngster's party with at least a million photos taken? Maybe the culprit is in one, or more, and could be traced. Or posted on your local facebook?
29-10-2013 10:12 AM
That is dreadful Twishy. I hope the find the toerag!
29-10-2013 10:25 AM
They are both really upset....the thought that someone they thought of as a friend could do something like this,in their home...it wasn't even an open house party and the two people they didn't invite they knew anyway from College....not as if they were complete,random strangers off the street.
I think this is what's so cruel,not the loss of the items although that's bad enough but the realisation that it could be anyone,who do they accuse first?....so difficult
29-10-2013 10:31 AM
thats a horrid thing to happen
did they have to mae a list of everyone for the police
is there a chance that someone could have snuck in as the party got going
hope they can catch up with whoever it was, have they got serial numbers for electrical stuff, any good photos of the earrings
29-10-2013 10:51 AM
Yes they made a list but the police don't seem particularly interested...the phones and things have been blocked,credit cards cancelled so the police have told them to keep an eye out on auction sites and local phone shops....Useless really..
They are behind electric gates Towery...no one can get in without them letting them in.
All serial numbers have been noted but there are no good photos of the earrings,they weren't very expensive just of very great value to swishy daughter.....they were the first 'real' thing Rhys gave her he saved up for a long time for them out of his lawn cutting wages before he got his apprenticeship...
29-10-2013 10:55 AM
That's awful twishy, as you say, not just the loss of your possesions but to think a 'friend' would do that to you! I guess now she's wondering about everybody! How many were at the party? The fewer that were there I would think the better chance of finding out who did it. I hope they do find out.
29-10-2013 11:10 AM
There were 21 people at the party.....none of them were strangers.....
How do you even start to decide which one could be a thief?....She was in tears on the phone to me this morning
I just want to punch somebody....
29-10-2013 11:24 AM
swishy, you said one phone traced to a local shop owner?
is he a phone shop/pawn shop type? (meaning will he be looking to sell it on)
or is he a newsagent thinking he bought himself a nice new phone?
if he is the 1st one, he will be required to prove he took precautions to know it wasnt stolen BEFORE he bought it
so he will want to protect himself and co-operate
he wont want the police rummaging either
most shops have cctv too
maybe that might show something?
Awful a nice night like that can end like this
quite a small group of friends
and now they need to deal with this
29-10-2013 12:28 PM
Twishy thats really awful its bad enough beeing robbed but by a ' friend' is shocking . The person responsable may be in need of money so should be found out as they could steal again from somewhere else ..so sad 😞
29-10-2013 12:37 PM
Twishy that is awful, I still can't get it into my head that there are horrible people like that around
29-10-2013 12:58 PM
oHHHHH thats awful Twishy how horrible and its even worse when you think people are your friends. They have to be found, ooohhh NASTY NASTY!!!!. Keep us posted??.
29-10-2013 4:05 PM
29-10-2013 4:53 PM
It's a phone shop Merlin....but he is know as a dodgy character so I don't think he would have bothered checking...He's the one everybody checks with first when stuff goes missing and he is well known to the police...It was the first place the police suggested they looked.
29-10-2013 5:09 PM
Can they arrange a get together on neutral ground of all the party goers and talk about it. It might become obvious who the culprit is or they might incriminate themselves. It could even be one of the 'victims'!
29-10-2013 5:13 PM
I like Maggies idea it could stir a conscience !
29-10-2013 5:18 PM
That's a good idea Maggie....they might even be able to shame the person into owning up. At least they will be able to see who doesn't turn up, maybe suffering from a guilty conscience?.....
All ideas gratefully accepted folks,they have done all the official things but don't hold out much hope....
29-10-2013 5:49 PM
Swishy, that's awful. Normally, you can trust your friends but what has happened in this instance is terrible. I agree with what Maggie has suggested. You never know, it might just work.
29-10-2013 7:06 PM
that is an awful thing to happen, a few years ago I helped someone I knew out with a bed for the night and when they left so did £20 that I had saved up. Try to think that maybe a few drinks had made a "friend" behave in this way, otherwise you begin on the "trust nobody" road. Another get together sounds like a good idea, do let us know what happens.
29-10-2013 10:10 PM
That's horrible Twishy, really horrible.
However I like to think that the type of people who would stoop so low as to steal,
particularly from people who consider them friends, are in the minority and that most
people are kind and honest. Sadly the few that aren't let us down, make us feel upset
and as if we can trust nobody.
I hope the person or people responsible are caught and brought to justice over
what's happened and that your daughter and her friends get their property back.
I don't wish that on anyone but I do often wonder why these things happen to those
nice people who don't deserve it rather than to scumbags who would do likewise.