Yesterday was fun….
Last night I woke up (at 21:00) to the sound of breaking glass. As i stumbled out to the laundry I hear someone go “fuck” and a noise. I run back into my room grab my glasses (not that it will help, first few mins after I wake up my vision is usually blurry) and keys. As I run from the front door to the back door I see a dark shape jumping the back fence. Further inspection showed that the security screen had been ripped out and the laundry window was smashed.
Lovely just lovely.
So I give the cops a call (on the 3rd attempt I find a station who answers) and get advised by the nice officer that sadly they have no-one available to go out that night and since I couldn’t give a description that I could come in the next morning to fill out the paperwork for insurance purposes and was advised I could clean up the mess.
So I give the ‘rents a call (it is their place and all and asked who to call to repair the window and they advised they would be over shortly. They rocked up about 20mins later with some sheet metal and fix it up. Xena (their German Shepherd) also came along and is currently staying at my place for abit. I am sure she is happy since I let her have free reign to run around all day and dig in the garden as she wishes. Something my parents go skitz at her for.
Anyway that is not all, the next morning I rock up to the Caboolture Cop Shop to fill out my report and get the 3rd Degree on why I didn’t call to get a unit down there when it happened (which I did) and why did I touch the evidence (The guy I spoke to said it was ok). She wasn’t happy when I advised that I had spoken to someone and then proceeded to piss me off no end by asking innane questions and treating me like a peice of shit when I didn’t know the answer. Giving me shit because I couldn’t give a description when I had already advised I didn’t have my glasses and I suck when I first wake up was so very trying. Now I remember why I dislike cops.
Question Example:
Police Officer: What was affected?
Me: The laundry window and security grill near the back door. It is on the right side on the ground floor looking from the road.
Police Office: Is that on the east or west side?
Me: I don’t know.
Police Officer: How can you not no? What side of your house does the sun come up on?
Me: I don’t know I wake up at 20:00 AEST every day to go to work and get home at 08:30 AEST every morning.
Police Officer: Well you should know.
Me: I don’t sorry, it isn’t something I pay attention to.
Police Officer: It isn’t so hard, and since you had an attempted break in these are things you should know. How big was the window?
Me: *makes hand movements as I approximate the size* about 1.25m wide and 0.45m high.
Police Officer: So you are not sure on the exact measurements?
Me: Not really, I wasn’t aware I would need exact dimensions and if someone had come last night they would have seen it.
Police Officer: Moving on, how much will it cost to replace?
Me: No idea, for that information you would need to talk to my dad and when I had asked him he advised it would depend on if the glass and screen are all that needs replacing or if the frame also needs to be replaced as it was damaged when they removed the screen. This he won’t know until someone comes out.
Police Officer: So you don’t know?
Me: No.
That an example of part of our conversation………….I just hope no one tries to rob me again. I don’t think I can go through an hour or so of that shit again.
Anyway, I now have a sweet looking window which is all boarded up and trusty dog digging out the weeds in my garden so it is all good.
Listening to: Lacuna Coil – Our Truth
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