THE TRIP TO HELL ADDITION
We left the Big Island on time. Checked out of the room, returned the car, got on the plane, got all comfy. Had an eventless flight to California, Oakland.
We got the van, picked up the luggage, drove a few miles away to Denny's for a 9pm dinner as we were all hungry and tired.
Then the shitstorm hit.
We walked from the door of the restaurant to the door of the van. BoyToy Garry stopped and said, "Oh shit."
The driver's window had been smashed in. Glass was everywhere. We opened the door and looked inside. After a quick inventory, we discovered that 4 bags were missing: 1 of Damian's, 1 of Russell's, 1 of BoyToy Garry, 1 of Mom Lisa. The mostly-but-still-only-partial list of stolen goods includes:
- various and sundry clothing items
- Russell's $1000 digital camera including 2 zoom lenses, camera case, and several memory card.
- Russell's Compaq computer, with all the pictures from the trip on the hard drive.
- Russell's iPhone 4
- The AlienWare backpack that all that was stored in.
- Garry's Gameboy 3d and 4 games.
- Garry's Digital "Pocket" camera.
- Garry's wallet ($80), his bank card, his driver's license.
- Damian's Razr-Blade sunglasses ($140 a pair)
- Damian's iPad 3 !
- Damian's 15" MacBook Pro!!! with all the pictures from the pictures on it.
- Damian's portable hard-drive (with all his iTunes files on it!)
- Damian's "Underwater" digital camera, with 3 spare batteries and 3 spare memory cards
- Damian's AlienWare messenger bag
- Various other "supporting" cables, cradles, etc.
All added up, Russell has calculated about $10,000 of stuff.
We immediately called 911 and got the Oakland Police who said, "Yah...well...you're #68 on the list so we're not likely to get anyone out to you for...oh...4 or 5 hours." So we opted for Plan B which was to file a report online.
We returned the van to the rental center, did all that paperwork, got a new van, went on to the resort in San Francisco. We did another damage survey.
Great. Just great. I'll post more about the rest of the trip later.
ALO---f*ing---HA
