Poltergust
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Last weekend, I attended Pound V and had an awesome time. However, I encountered a huge problem during my return trip...
Let me give a little background. Whenever I travel, I always take my backpack and my DS bag (which is actually a GBA bag, but I'm too attached to it to change it). The backpack is my carry-on and the DS bag is my personal item for flights. Anyways, I went to Pound V, had a blast, then came back.
I managed to barely get on the last bus that returned to campus Monday night, but when I got off at my stop I noticed a few minutes later that I was missing something: my DS bag. I left it on the bus! In a frenzy, I raced down to the last stop of the bus (it was the very last bus that night, so I thought I'd make it in time, and it was just five blocks away). However, I couldn't make it in time. The bus was gone, along with my DS bag. I was practically having a nervous breakdown there, and the only thing that kept me calm was the sound of my parents' voices, who I called to help me with the situation. After a little while, I returned to my dorm, completely depressed.
I called the bus office at 7:30 AM the next day, which is the earliest time that one could call them and file a lost & found report. Around 2:15 PM later that day, I was told that they found my bag and said that I could come pick it up around 3:30 PM. After my class ended, I immediately headed out to the bus office, and found my DS bag! I was completely overjoyed to see it again.
...Until I actually held it. For some reason, the bag seemed much lighter than what I remembered it to be, so I opened it up... and found it almost completely empty. Basically, almost my entire collection of DS games (along with a few GBA games) and my iPhone charger + adapter were gone. All that was left was my receipt for the hotel (which helped a lot in identifying that it was my bag), my nametag from Pound V, FFIII DS (the only DS game that was left in the bag), one GBA game, and my GBC games. That's it. I had over 3 dozen DS games in my bag, and now they are gone. I asked if the bag arrived like that, and the teller said that nothing was taken out of the bag. That leaves only one conclusion: my DS games were stolen from the bag.
I felt that the world was crumbling around me right there. Sure, a couple of things have been stolen from me before: a pencil here, one or two games there... but I've never been robbed of in this scale. Not only did I lose a collection that was basically worth $1600, but I lost all the time I spent on the games, too. My perfect file with Mario Kart DS (with 3-star rank, all staff ghosts beaten, all missions mastered, and massive W:L ratio online), my perfect town in Animal Crossing: Wild World (house fully paid off, although I haven't played it in a while so it's probably full of weeds), my imports (Jump Ultimate Stars, which I got as a present when I went to Japan in 2009, Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, etc.), all my RPGs and story-based games (Ace Attorney, Chrono Trigger, Professor Layton, Touch Detective, Mario & Luigi, Ghost Trick, etc.), and other games... all gone.
I filed a stolen item report to the police via phone after I got over myself. I was given a case number and fax number (although I lost the fax number somehow), and I'm about to fax this document to the police to help them know exactly what was taken from me:
Thanks for reading this if you read it all the way through. I needed to just say what happened so that I can cope with it.
Last weekend, I attended Pound V and had an awesome time. However, I encountered a huge problem during my return trip...
Let me give a little background. Whenever I travel, I always take my backpack and my DS bag (which is actually a GBA bag, but I'm too attached to it to change it). The backpack is my carry-on and the DS bag is my personal item for flights. Anyways, I went to Pound V, had a blast, then came back.
I managed to barely get on the last bus that returned to campus Monday night, but when I got off at my stop I noticed a few minutes later that I was missing something: my DS bag. I left it on the bus! In a frenzy, I raced down to the last stop of the bus (it was the very last bus that night, so I thought I'd make it in time, and it was just five blocks away). However, I couldn't make it in time. The bus was gone, along with my DS bag. I was practically having a nervous breakdown there, and the only thing that kept me calm was the sound of my parents' voices, who I called to help me with the situation. After a little while, I returned to my dorm, completely depressed.
I called the bus office at 7:30 AM the next day, which is the earliest time that one could call them and file a lost & found report. Around 2:15 PM later that day, I was told that they found my bag and said that I could come pick it up around 3:30 PM. After my class ended, I immediately headed out to the bus office, and found my DS bag! I was completely overjoyed to see it again.
...Until I actually held it. For some reason, the bag seemed much lighter than what I remembered it to be, so I opened it up... and found it almost completely empty. Basically, almost my entire collection of DS games (along with a few GBA games) and my iPhone charger + adapter were gone. All that was left was my receipt for the hotel (which helped a lot in identifying that it was my bag), my nametag from Pound V, FFIII DS (the only DS game that was left in the bag), one GBA game, and my GBC games. That's it. I had over 3 dozen DS games in my bag, and now they are gone. I asked if the bag arrived like that, and the teller said that nothing was taken out of the bag. That leaves only one conclusion: my DS games were stolen from the bag.
I felt that the world was crumbling around me right there. Sure, a couple of things have been stolen from me before: a pencil here, one or two games there... but I've never been robbed of in this scale. Not only did I lose a collection that was basically worth $1600, but I lost all the time I spent on the games, too. My perfect file with Mario Kart DS (with 3-star rank, all staff ghosts beaten, all missions mastered, and massive W:L ratio online), my perfect town in Animal Crossing: Wild World (house fully paid off, although I haven't played it in a while so it's probably full of weeds), my imports (Jump Ultimate Stars, which I got as a present when I went to Japan in 2009, Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, etc.), all my RPGs and story-based games (Ace Attorney, Chrono Trigger, Professor Layton, Touch Detective, Mario & Luigi, Ghost Trick, etc.), and other games... all gone.
I filed a stolen item report to the police via phone after I got over myself. I was given a case number and fax number (although I lost the fax number somehow), and I'm about to fax this document to the police to help them know exactly what was taken from me:
I know, I'm probably wasting my time with this, but I just can't sit around doing nothing while some thief has made off with my DS games. If there is even a slimmer of hope of recovering them I'll take it.
Thanks for reading this if you read it all the way through. I needed to just say what happened so that I can cope with it.
Sorry man.
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