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Some sorry bastard stole my Zune.
They left the cables, still plugged in to the cigarette lighter and the auxiliary input,they dumped the case I keep everything in, like my other cables, cassette tape adapter, and the earbuds (which they didn't take, so they obviously weren't interested in actually listening to the damn thing). They also jerked down everything I have hanging from my rearview mirror, some necklace type stuff.
I was NOT happy.
I SWEAR I locked the car Saturday when I went down to get the camera bag to take pictures of Brooklyn. Don took the dogs out the night before and saw one of the various homeless guys hovering around, but they've never given us a problem before so he didn't think much about it. Ever since the makeshift shelter opened across the street, they've become more of a problem. We've lived in the loft for two years and this is the first time they've jacked with stuff in the parking lot.
I remember when I bought my Zune. (Well, sort of bought it...it was a gift). November 2006. The FIRST generation 30 gig Zune, that people think is such a dinosaur only three years later. It still worked well enough to suit me, despite how stuff would just "disappear" after a Microsoft update. I blogged about it before, because it has such an interesting array of tunes on it. Metallica to Gregorian chant, I had it all. It had 5009 songs on it. I'd only used about 17 gigs. Still had about 12 to go.
I had a few pictures on it, a couple of the videos that came with it. Now all I have are cables and a carrying case. I even fished around in the dumpster, but it had been left open and had about three inches of water standing in it. Even if I'd found it, it would be ruined. If it was still there, underneath the small amount of trash, it's way gone now, because pick-up was this morning about 5:30.
I don't think it's really hit me yet that it's gone. I haven't cried yet. Why cry over an electronic gadget? Well, when you spend your own hard-earned cash for something you really do use every day, and you love your music, like I do? True, it can be replaced, but I wasn't planning on buying the new Zune HD which comes out today. I was happy with my old one.
I did file a police report. And maybe it'll turn up at a pawn shop, but I doubt it will. I don't know how anyone could pawn it, with just the player itself and none of the accessories. Who knows.
Anyway, I'm sad. And pissed off. I have to listen to the radio in the car now, which is as bad as trying to watch cable TV. It's a good thing that a Zune account does keep track of everything you download, because you can get those back now. The rest of my collection was directly from my CDs, and anyone who knows me knows how many of those I've got laying around. And no, I didn't have EVERYTHING on the Zune, but close to it.
I'm really, really, really glad I got the camera bag out when I did. Because that stuff was even more expensive, especially our video camera, which we've only had since Christmas. I would have searched homeless guys and been kicking some ass after that one.
I know the economy is bad and some people are homeless. But unless they have serious physical or mental disabilities, people can get back on their feet. And they don't need to be causing problems near MY home. I know the young do-gooders meant well, but they should never have told their "clients" where they lived, which was the apartment next to ours. They've since moved, because they kept getting flat tires on their cars for unexplained reasons.
Now my Zune is gone. *%#&^*@*$^!!!!
