Hello December…Oh Fuck!

Typically my Decembers are nothing but positive, it is my birth month after all. Also Winter is probably my favorite season, and I’m a huge fan of snow…which is on the ground already. Everything was looking pretty good coming into the month. Unfortunately I woke up this morning to a very unwelcome surprise.

I rolled out of bed, put on clothes to go to work and walked out the door to find that my car was no longer in the driveway. First thought is one of my parents took it for something this morning as is the case many of morning (but they typically let me know ahead of time). I give my dad a call and he says that he thought I had already taken off for work because it wasn’t there when he left this morning. “WHAT THE FUCK?!” was basically the only thought in my head at this moment.

Let me paint a picture that will let you know the unlikely hood of a car being stolen in the middle of the country in a smaller town like St. Joseph. We have always, for the 12 years my parents have lived at that house, left keys in cars, unlocked, windows down in the summer, etc etc. It just doesn’t happen where we live; Cars are not stolen.

Now fortunately I have another car but it has to be licensed and all this other shit to get it on the road, like a grand or so worth of effort to get it ready. It’s definitely the nicer of the two cars so I win there, but with it not being legal and all, it doesn’t really help me right now.

After I get it figured out and come to the solid conclusion that the car was stolen in the middle of the night, we call the police. I apparently know the sheriff (or rather my parents do) so it was easy to work with him and get to the bottom of it. I guess there has been some kind of ring going on where people drive to the country and look for cars to steal (keys in car, not locked etc). However they mainly still pick ups and other such vehicles. They had already found our car abandoned in Amazonia which is 20 or so minutes in some direction from my house, so I was like “Sweet I’ll get my car back today and it’ll all be cool”. Unfortunately the thieves had a habit of burning cars they didn’t scrap (I guess to kill evidence or just because they are dicks). So we call the place it was towed unsure of the condition in which it arrived only to find that it was completely torched. Luckily it was paid off completely, but unfortunately the insurance was just switched to liability only a couple months ago.

Now I’m feeling that whole Vigilante Justice thing in my veins. I really just want to go drive around various country roads at 4am and randomly run into them during said robberies and beat the living fuck out of them. Not like, turn them into the police and see them put where the belong. I want to break bones and you know inflict massive amounts of pain before the cops come.

Life is annoying already. Do people really need to steal cars just to set them on fire. Like honestly I would have been OK if they never found the car and assumed it was scrapped and sold for parts. I can respect that in a thieves world, I don’t like it, but I can respect it. But to steal a car, just to get to another car and then burning it to a crisp…that is ridiculous. The police weren’t even going to check it for evidence, they were just going to let us pick it up and take it back home. What is the purpose of the blowing up of the car? Did I personally piss on your family or something? I don’t think I have done anything to these people, so I’m just curious what is wrong with them mentally. Must be something. I won’t be going all vigilante, but if I do happen to stumble upon them late at night I will definitely make sure they are caught, and hopefully it’ll be the sheriff I know who picks them up and he’ll allow me to break a knee cap or something .

I know this is poorly written…it is a rant…I’m already over the car thing as it is just a material item and it has served me well for many years. Now it is just like a moral thing, that whole fucking with other peoples shit thing. I’ve always respected other peoples property and it just baffles me.

~ by funafuti on December 1, 2008.