Well. It's been a couple of days since The Incident. I'm still in mourning over the loss of my stuff and the fact that I am stranded here for now. There are so many hurdles left to leap over before I can even get on that plane to the US. I've had moments when it just seems all too hard. But...I have to keep moving forward.
What has struck me over the last couple of days was the fact that EVERY person we spoke to about my experience has either been through it themselves, or know someone who has. On the night I went to lodge a police report, there were two other people at the station reporting similar thefts. That is saying something about the crime rate of this country.
Apparently there is a syndicate of professional thieves who go around breaking into people's cars, mostly to steal laptops. Apparently they have some device that "scans" or "detects" the presence of laptops (and possibly other electronics, like mobile phones) in the vehicle. Now I must have been living under a rock, cuz when the hell did they come up with something like that?!!?!?! If I had known that such "devices" exist, I would have taken my laptop with me. Of course, now that it's happened and there's nothing I can do about it, everyone I talk to starts telling me about this recent spate of laptop thefts and gives me advice on how to avoid said thefts.
Yeah. Great. Now you tell me. Grrr.
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