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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

I got robbed!

Hello all,
I got robbed Monday in San Francisco.I parked on Franklin at Post - note to all
there has been a rash of robberies in the civic center area. So careful when you go
to SFPL main!

When I came back to my car - my passenger window was smashed in as well as a few other cars on the same street....and two of my bags were gone.

I found one bag as it was thrown away down the block...i found two police and they were really nice -- maybe
because i was a cry-baby, and they called some other officers - and an officer 10 blocks away
found a guy looking through the bag i described.

This is where things got really crazy...I had to follow them to the other policemen and identify
my bag --with the guy who stole it! They arrested him cuffs and all...i had to verify that I didn't know him, or
ever give him permission to take anything of mine...they took a lot of photographs and i had to let them keep
my bag and a few non-essentials as evidence. It was awkward for the two of us to look at each other - what
can one say - so we just glanced and avoided eye contact. He was not ethnic, just a 50ish year old addict with
a lot of needles in his possession and well...other stuff going on.

Anyway, everyone who parks in the city, hide all your belongings!
What a pisser.
ida

3 comments:

Sarah Houghton-Jan said...

I am so sorry that this happened to you. It is not fun. Having had various cars broken in to a total of 5 times now, I know how scary it is. I'm sorry they made you confront the guy, but hopefully your standing up to him will prevent him from being so willing to steal from others in the future. That's the idea anyway of the criminal justice system. Anyway...I am so, so sorry.

Anonymous said...

i am glad that you didn't get hurt and at least the robber was caught.

Anonymous said...

Wow. What an awful thing to have happen, but how reassuring to see such a swift and effective response by the police. I'm just glad you're OK. Windows can be replaced; nice people like you can't be :)
--Sean R

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