Have you ever been the victim of a crime?

[Mr. Smith]

Yes. Numerous times. One does not live in a dorm with a common area for laundry without something going wrong at some point.

The two that stand out to me best however are these:

1. Freshman year, first semester,Homecoming Night: My debit card got stolen while I was sleeping from my dorm room. I was an idiot and left the door unlocked. However, it was my roommate who got the blame. Only $25 got used on it thankfully.

The thing about this one is that either A) The perpetrator completely got away and my roommate was innocent or B) My roommate really did do it, and oh howdy he did NOT get away with it. The University kicked him out, the cops gave some really nasty black eyes, and they tried to label the thing as a felony [he was black, you see and this was The South]


2. January this year: I left my bike at my church since the Metro's holding area closed up and I lacked a lock. I got cocky and left it for a few days. So yeah, a homeless guy broke in and took it one of those nights, so I had to spend $150 a new one off Craigslist, and I broke down and got a lock.

The Bay Area is just not a place where you can so easily get a bike back. S.F. has all sorts of cartels for that kind of thing. And reporting it to the cops, well it's like the Italian Short called The Bicycle Thieves. Karma let the perpetrator off the hook because of my own stupidity.