My nephew yesterday evening noticed that his Samsung Tablet was missing. And after half an hour search in the house, my mom discovered that her necklace was gone too!
I think we were robbed!
I had my day off from work yesterday, but I never got a chance for some "ME" time. My day was jam-packed with errands here, there and everywhere. After breakfast, I accompanied my mom to town for grocery, my nephew was in the neighborhood for his module tutorial, and my sister left the house too to buy garden soil, everyone left leaving the front door locked but the kitchen door opened. We arrived past lunch time, my sister first after she fetch my nephew. In between those hours, someone entered inside from our kitchen door and robbed us!
Grrr! This is really so annoying! We never expected this to happen. We've been living peacefully in this house and in this neighborhood for like 20 years and this never happened even once!
In front of our house, there's a renovation going on. We have this commercial space for rent, and for a couple of days now a renovation team from the new tenant is currently working. I suspected that someone from the laborers got inside and robbed us, since they can access the kitchen from the shop! Now, we don't have any idea what else this heartless crap got, it seems he was able to freely shop some valuables in my mom’s house!
The local authorities in the barangay helped us to interrogate the renovation team working in our commercial space today, as expected no one admitted the crime, so, unfortunately nothing was recovered. We are advised to submit blotter police report just to make them aware that we haven't taken this case lightly. This morning I went to the nearest police station and thank God it was fast and easy, I was able to finish it before their lunch break and avoided the anxiety of going back and forth.
My dad considered putting up CCTV camera but installing and maintaining it is costly, my suggestion is to completely close the kitchen door from the tenants, so maybe we really need to provide a new toilet for them, which will take time to plan and work on, and of course, the budget is a headache to think about.
Going back to the theft update, I presume no justice for us from this untoward incident, but God is on our side, and He is just. Justice will be served for anyone responsible.
P.S.
I had this article published few years back on another writing site. It resurfaced while I was checking on my old phone's notepad, I also find some of the poems I made, aww that got me nostalgic, lol! Anyway, I shared this article back here because there has been an update on that mysterious daytime robbery.
Last month while my brother and I went jogging in the neighborhood, we stumbled upon a 'Winnie the Pooh' Samsung tablet casing in a pile of trash from the outside of a neighbors apartment, I think they have it disposed and waiting for the garbage truck to pick it up that early morning. At the back of our mind, we were so confident that the Pooh tablet casing belongs to my nephew, it still has the stubborn ketchup stain on the rubber edges of it. No matter how old it has gone missing, we can never go wrong about it. Coincidentally, one of the renters of this apartment is the carpenter who also worked with the renovation team, and later we find out that he got bedridden because of Stroke or Cerebrovascular accident.
This is the irony. We got so mad about it that day it happened, we even brought this up to the barangay and the police. Now, with the twist of fate our lives went through, no matter how certain we are, we can never go and confront someone of his fault (or his crime) - not on his recent state of being out of shape, bitten up on life and in agony about his disease.
So, in the end, we choose not to be certain and we choose to forget about it.
Would you opt to do the same?
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interesting twist of events...sorry for the brevity...deadlines...