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aka: Burglary of your home, Car break-in, Your bedroom getting searched by someone (Parents/Roomates/Housemates/ or even Burglars), Your Backpack, Personal Electronics/Phone/Computer/etc getting searched, etc. (Including any seaches by law enforcrment / security)

Basically, anything that can be considered "personal space".


Why I ask?

Well... My parent's car has signs of being searched through last night, I think they forgot to close the windows all the way, and some random thief got in and looking for valuables, nothing of value wa taken, but stuff were all over the car, now I hate the idea of getting into that car again (someone might've slept inside the car, blegh 😖). That car feels so "tainted" now.

Like this cant be only my feeling right? Like, you just feel disgusted after someone touch your things against your will (especially if they are strangers).

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

House was broken into while I was at work. They’d gone through the house and messed it up a bit. But when I got to the bedroom, they’d flipped the mattress and taken the pillow cases off. Couldn’t sleep in that bed for maybe six months. Slept on the couch. Even had my bow next to me too for a while.

Cop who showed up told me to get a sawed off shotgun and/or a big dog. Ended up moving 8 months later bc I never felt safe again.

Sorry about the car. That happened to me too, long time ago. We were walking out from work at night on Black Friday and saw them in my car. I caught and tackled one of them and beat the shit out of him. Other 2 the cops got.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

get a sawed off shotgun

Not legal without a $200 tax and ATF form 4, fyi.

'Course, it's not going to help you if it's there and you're not "next time," that's their shotgun now. Terrible advice, a pistol would be better, that way you're covered while home and you can carry it with you so it can't be stolen while you're gone, if you're gonna get a gun that is anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info. I never looked into it but glad I know that now. I bought a Sig P365XL and later got a 12-gauge (not sawed off). Love the pistol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Hell yeah, great choice! Those p365s are pretty damn neat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Yea well it wasn't even my car, but I needed to use that as a ride to get places. My parents doesn't even seem bothered when this is their car being searched through (how can someone be this calm?), meanwhile, I, who doesn't even own the car, get frustrated and disgusted at some rando potentially contaminating the car. (Maybe its my germaphobia kicking in again 🤷‍♂️)