Synopsis: This is a cautionary tale. A seriously disturbed couple find the charming, old ruin of a Queen Anne Victorian in Russellville, Arkansas, and buy it for $1.00. They tore the roof off, cut it in half, and had it moved to some land they owned sixteen miles away because they didn't know any better. Since then, they have hired and fired contractors, had all of their tools stolen, re-wired, re-plumbed, insulated, and essentially rebuilt the entire house. Their only problem is that after four years it still isn't finished. Now they are tired, broke, and wonder what in the hell it is they've done to themselves. And, it's haunted.
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So, I got home late Monday night to find the Devil Queen's front door kicked in and the house robbed. This has put me in a real bad mood. More later. Gotta go visit the sheriff's office with an itemized list of everything missing.
Labels: true crime, woe
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Oh no! I'm crossing my fingers for a good outcome!
How awful; I feel your pain! Our house was burglarized in June. The worst part is the sentimental items that they took which they won't get any money for. It's such a violation.
:-(
Our neighborhood has seen an increase in break ins lately. I'm so sorry that it happens, and especially to you.
Bastards.
Post the list of what they took: maybe some of the stuff they took will be something that we have a duplicate of, and you can have ours.
This is the bonus of merging two households. DOUBLES!!!
--Janine
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Call me paranoid, but I sort of get strange ideas sometimes....I recall some sort of trouble along this line with former contractors, with about the same result. Where were they when this all went down?
That's terrible! I'm so sorry.
Your luck sounds about as crappy as mine. I hope they catch them this time!
Damn! That's terrible! You need some dogs... big ones.
We don't live in the best neighborhood but we have 2 Great Danes and a boxer pit mix and I make sure everyone in the neighborhood knows it too.
Sh*t John...that sucks so bad. I'm really sorry to hear that.
Oh God. There is probably no worse of a feeling. I am so very sorry. Hope things turn out well and they catch the slime bucket!
I've been there. And they have no clue (nor do they care) that some of the things they take have no value whatsoever except for the sentimental value.
As someone who has recently had to close a business from the effects of a burglary I can very much sympathize. I hope they get the bastards.
Oh crap. I wish I couldn't say "I know how you feel" but unfortunately I do. The last burglars took my beloved Harley Road King out of my locked garage. Hence the large dogs, the whole house security system and the noisy little tool I'm not supposed to have in NYC.
We had a 60% jump in burglaries in south Brooklyn this year over 2006. I wrote a blog article about it a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I've read on the house blogs that others are seeing the same thing.
Thanks everyone.
Losing things of sentimental value is the worst... Years (heck, decades) later, I remember with sadness losing those things.
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