I had my bike ($800 graduation present) stolen my first week of college (pissed me off greatly), but other than that, never been robbed. I ponder that scenario though. I made a list of what I had that would be of interest to a thief and was rather amused at what I had. And duh, I know I'm posting my possessions, but if someone reads this board and then takes the time and effort required to come to the middle of nowhere, break into my home, fight off the attack cats and hidden cactuses, and manages to wade through the waist-deep debris covering my floor, then they deserve a medal for bravery.
Computers - If the thief is dumb enough to take bulky items (or has a truck) I''m sure my PC would be snagged. Fortunately, I'm not exactly attached to it as I still hate the demonic thing. 5 years ago, my Mac would have been snagged if the thief realized what kind of machine it was. Now I don't think they'd bother. Doesn't help that it takes an escape artist to even pull the plugs to move it. So I'm not too worried.
TVs - Living room TV is very large and bulky but obviously nowhere close to being worth stealing, being older than the cats. Probably not going to be a target. If anything, they'd take the small one in the bedroom, but it's three times as old as the living room TV. If it gets stolen, I won't worry.
Satellite Receivers - The one I own is never used (not even plugged in...nor do I know where it is) and the leased receiver will be replaced within a day. At most I'd miss CSI Miami.
DVD Players -One is ancient and about the size of a small couch. The second is actually fairly high end and includes a surround sound system. But that being stolen wouldn't annoy me since I got it for free, never us the DVD player, and the surround system only gets used when I remember it exists.
CDs, Tapes, Records - I probably would be a bit upset if my CDs were stolen, but since I have hardcopy lists of my entire music library on any format, I would just download it all and burn what I felt like to CD later. I've actually been working on wiping out my CD collection anyway and would see it as an incentive to get it done. Though I hope they'd at least leave my Transformers CD since I've been attached to that one for years.
DVDs, Tapes - Everything is catalogued, same as the music, and since I'm replacing my tapes with DVDs, I probably wouldn't miss the tapes. My DVDs I would, but as long as they left me all my Stargate DVDs, I would just be a little upset. If they took Stargate, blood will be spilled! And my Jurassic Park Trilogy. But it would certainly give me an excuse to upgrade to some of those collector's editions I've been wanting to, but couldn't justify doing it since I already have the DVD.
Cell Phones - Oh take the damned things. I don't want one anyway, but mom made me get once cause I might drive somewhere and get into a horrible accident and die cause I'm in the middle of nowhere and no one would notice until my festering corpse had been snacked on by vultures. My new phone is under service replacement warranty, doesn't have any personal info stored anywhere (laziness), and if you find my old phone, let me know cause I could never figure out where I left the damned thing.
PDA - I almost forgot I had it. Damn thing was more trouble than it's worth. Steal it so I can upgrade to a Tungsten. I can live without my solitaire high scores.
Various Kitchen Appliances - Dude, if you want to risk the kitchen, be my guest. It will certainly save me having to wash anything. Oh, and the silver is in the cupboard above the fridge. It was given to me by a creepy old man and I'm not exactly attached.
Jewelry - Okay, this is me we're talking about here. I don't have any jewelry worth anything. Sure there's several silver pendants I occasionally wear, but the one I most want to keep is the one that never leaves my neck anyway. And I found where I can get a replacement for $5 on eBay. Everything else I have that's sentimental isn't even here. And anything I have that might actually be worth something I don't care about because I didn't pay for it (or ever would). Like anything given to me that involves gold, diamonds, or hearts. Blech.
Game systems - I guess if the thief really wanted a Sega Genesis, NES, Super NES, or beat up, barely working Playstation (before it turned into the PS1), they could have them. Otherwise, I guess the Gamecube would be worth it. Though I haven't played any of the systems in at least 8 months.
Games, software - I have software. Stuff I didn't download. Huh. Guess I forgot about that. Would I even notice they were gone?
So, that's what I have that would be a target to thieves. Minus the box of gems and old money for just in case I die and the cats need to be taken care of. Of course, it's so well hidden I forget it exists. And I'd need a heavy duty power saw to get at it anyway.
Now, the stuff I would be most upset about wouldn't be a target.
Books - Yeah, I'd be fucking pissed if my books were stolen, but who steals books? Maybe someone who knows a bit about rare books, but even then there's only one that would even be worth the backpack space. But at least I would be able to congratulate the thief on his/her good taste.
Rocks - You know me. I have my rock collection (or a part of it since I'm too lazy to update my web page) on display for the world to see, so a ton of people already know what I have and that what I have is certainly worth stealing. But, a common thief won't know that. There might be a few pieces here and there that are taken (and I know I would be flaming pissed if my uranium was taken) but most of it wouldn't be given a second glance. All but a few are dull, boring, and don't look like more than doorstops. Of course those are the coolest, but really only to a geologist anyway. And if a geologist did break into my place, I'd hope s/he/it would realize how rude it would be. Besides, there's plenty of booze to steal instead.
Legos - The only thing that makes my Legos worth anything is the sheer volume of what I have. Besides, those are way to complicated to transport.
Cats - Except for Lily, my cats aren't worth anything. And Lily is fixed so she's not really worth anything anyway. But let me tell you, if anyone steals or harms a hair on my cats' cute little tails, there is absolutely NO fucking place they could hide to be safe from me. And I mean that in the most vehement "I-Will-Gladly-Spend-Jail-Time-If-It-Means-I-Get-My-Revenge" sense. Be warned, motherfucker.
And besides, if I did get robbed, I probably wouldn't even notice something was missing for a while. Maybe my PDA since it's my alarm clock. Or my Mac, if it was taken.
Okay, now a lot of this is tongue-in-cheek. Obviously I would be majorly freaked out if I was robbed. When my bike was stolen, I was afraid to let even my favorite pen out of my sight for weeks, and I haven't skated in years because of it (long story). But it's kind of nice to know that I'm not overly attached to possessions that are little more than luxuries. And the stuff I'm most attached to aren't considered valuable, except to me.
Dude, I'm sorry you got robbed. That sucks. At least you didn't walk in on the thief. Cause that coulda sucked.
Never been mugged either, despite the many times I wander around large cities in the dark. It's actually amazing that I haven't.
And now it's cold in here and I could use a jacket. Fucking snow.
