...and then retrieved!
Last night, we decided to go out to a bar and then a restaurant with some new friends here in Miami. We parked the car in my FH's work parking garage. It's underground, and we thought, safer (and more free) than street parking. I grabbed my license out of my bag and threw my purse and sunglasses in the trunk of the car.
We had a few drinks and thought to be responsible we thought we'd walk home and leave our car and fellow pedestrians safe and sound.
Fast forward to this morning. We walk back to the parking garage only to discover...NO CAR! No car, no purse, no credit cards, no keys.
Fast forward again, the jokers who stole our car have been using my credit cards to buy liquor and fast food all over town. Fortunately, I'm not liable for any of the charges...but geez!!!! I'm pretty mad, mainly at myself for being dumb enough to leave my purse in my car. I thought at the time that leaving it in the trunk was better than having it in a crowded bar, but I was wrong. Boooooooooo to car thieves.
I have to say though, I'm super impressed with how the police, Bank of America, CHASE and various other authorities have helped us out so far. But man, this sucked the big ol' hairy balls.
You are never going to believe what happened a few hours later. The security company from the parking garage called. They had the car on camera driving up to the gate. You could see the shadows of the people in the car moving around, seeming to look for something. Then they pull a u-turn and drive out of camera range. The team let us know that was the last time that they were on camera. In other words, they couldn't find footage of them ever actually leaving with the car.
We decided to go check it out with the security team one last time, and after a long, sweaty search... We found the car! The thieves had stashed it behind a wall going the wrong way down an entrance ramp. It wasn't in the main garage, but kind of off in a tiny space reserved for the valet parking attendants. Crazy right? My purse was there with my empty wallet, the only things missing were: a road flare (seriously???), my credit cards, my car keys and our GPS system. Huge sigh of relief!!!! I can breathe again! We went to the police station and let them know. And now we're celebrating with sundaes.
8 comments:
OMG Nick, that's terrible. And very frustrating. Definitely sounds like the work of some young hooligans (heading off to buy booze?).
I've heard that Miami has a pretty high crime rate. A friend of Matt's fam goes to UMiami undergrad and she told me that her dad wouldn't let her bring her cartier watch to school with her because "someone would cut off your hand for it..." Phew! I'm just glad to hear that you guys are safe and that it sounds like at least most of your stuff will be recovered (first and foremost the car!).
Missing you, ten cuidado.
xoxo
OMG Nick, that's terrible. And very frustrating. Definitely sounds like the work of some young hooligans (heading off to buy booze?).
I've heard that Miami has a pretty high crime rate. A friend of Matt's fam goes to UMiami undergrad and she told me that her dad wouldn't let her bring her cartier watch to school with her because "someone would cut off your hand for it..." Phew! I'm just glad to hear that you guys are safe and that it sounds like at least most of your stuff will be recovered (first and foremost the car!).
Missing you, ten cuidado.
xoxo
Road flares, fast food, and booze. Nice. I am very angry at those punks for touching your things and stealing your gps and keys. Thats pretty funny that they decided to leave your car in the garage and that the surveilance helped you figure it out. How did they break in? Did they damage the car? If they are men I would like to kick thier balls repeatedly and if they are women I would like to punch them in the ovaries repeatedly so they cant spawn more criminals. I'm sorry you had to deal with the whole thing.
So happy for you that it worked out! I'm thinking that as they were leaving with it someone was like, "Dude, we're totally going to get caught. Stealing a car is BIG! Let's leave the car and take the lady's stuff." You know?
Hmm... That's kind of random. I'm so glad you got your car back though! A road flare and some credit cards... Sounds like a wild night on the town there. :)
WHATTTT??!?!?! I can't believe that happened!!! I'm so sorry you had to go through that Nicky! ;(. That makes me so sad that people can be like that. But I'm glad the situation wasn't alot worse. I'm with Liz on the kicking them in the balls. And I think you should move to Japan because I leave my car unlocked all the time...ipod and valuables in clear view. Japan has made me too trusting, it'll be a shock coming back to the hooligans and locked car doors...
dude that sucks. my bike got stolen. but it was free to begin with. and credit cards were not involved. it feels like such a violation. i'm sorry it happened - also, karma is your bitch :)
that was also erin.
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