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To the miserable thief that robbed me....

7/4/2017

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I am absolutely pissed off right now.  Capital PISSED OFF!  My face is crimson, my blood pressure is boiling, my fists are clenched and smoke is billowing out of my ears.  I've been violated and I'm stomping mad.  I’m ready to fight and let the bodies fall where they may!  If only I knew where to find you!

My credit card has been compromised!  Never before did I full understand what that meant but now it has hit me harder than a baseball bat, a steel one at that, or perhaps I should say “steal”. Some sleazy criminal in Florida charged several items to my business Visa.  Thousands of dollars!  Yes I’ll get the money back, the credit card company assures me that all will be fixed but the inconvenience of an fraud investigation and waiting for a replacement card for two weeks hurts.  You sleazy bastard, if only you’d spend as much time following legal pursuits you would be successful,  but no, you feel entitled, like something is owed to your sorry ass and you have no conscience executing evil deeds.  I hope you rot in hell!

Before today’s event, the most annoying experience from using a credit card came by way of ordering a Christmas present for hubby online, from what I believed to be a reputable company.  Almost instantly the sex garbage starting clogging up my email inbox.  The company must have sold my email address so now  I get at least 30-50 ads a day about penis enlargement, someone wanting to be my F@$% Buddy, Girl on Girl action, Penisole...whatever that is, pills to enhance my sex life,  male Viagra, female Viagra and things to let me experience what I’ve been missing. What I’ve been missing is peace of mind with all this crap coming into my life.  I don’t like spam! (Not you Monty Python!)

It’s frustrating living in times when so much corruption, greed and illegal activity is plaguing us.  Sometimes listening to the news at night I want to stick my head in the oven.   People are skilled at hurting one another, that’s a given, turn you back for a second and feel the knife between the ribs.   You have to walk around with eyes in the back of your head and a gun in your pocket.  Say what you want about the United States gun laws, at least you can own one.  Here in Canada you have to go through the wringer, and be forced to join a rod and gun club and then follow a strict storage regime to get one.  If you said you wanted it for protection they’d laugh you out of the registration office.  It’s easier to adopt a baby than own a hand gun in Canada and I want one, no not a baby, a gun! 

Our laws don’t back up the person trying to defend and protect their family, their property.  If someone breaks into your house and they have a knife and you have a gun, and you cause bodily harm to the person intent on hurting you, then you can be carted off to jail.  Force has to match force so if you own a gun, you’d better hope the person breaking in intends to shoot you so you can fight back.  It’s crazy!

I’d love to be packing heat. I like guns, I like the protection they offer, I like that they mean business and you can protect yourself without getting too close to the person that wants to hurt you.  Knives are messy, too up close and personal and they can be turned on you.  Call me a redneck if you like but I’d love to shoot the “light fingers” off the person that did this to me.  Blow his digits into the next county.  Actually, there are a lot of people I’d like to shoot like child and animal abusers but I digress..... 
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Karma’s a bitch and tonight I’m going to put it out to the universe and go to bed with a mental voodoo doll that I’ll be sticking with pins, one for every hundred you stole from me.  You’ll look like a porcupine when I’m finished with you...you miserable piece of excrement.  

22 Comments
Jill
7/4/2017 05:04:42 pm

Oh I feel your pain, as a friend of mine would say, what a scum sucking weasel! And as another Canadian from the middle of Canada, I totally agree on the gun issue. I compromised and bought a legal pellet pistol. Now I can shoot gophers. Hitting them is another issue completely but I am trying!

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Christine
7/4/2017 05:41:18 pm

Jill, I actually own one of those hollow point pellet pistols as well!

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Connie
7/4/2017 05:30:40 pm

Nothing is safe any more. You need locks, security system, camera passwords and codes to protect everything you own. You must always be looking over your shoulder to see if someone is watching. Then there is the World Wide Web, where you have no idea what is happening or about to happen. Thieves, scammers, viruses, malware and more! Sorry this has happened to you, an honest hard working individual.

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Cynthia
7/4/2017 05:31:16 pm

Sorry this happened to you. I understand why you would say everything you did. Our world is in a sad state.

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Adena
7/4/2017 05:32:06 pm

How awful for you!

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Carol
7/4/2017 05:32:44 pm

Sorry to hear hugs.

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Jean
7/4/2017 05:33:19 pm

Well said.

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Marye
7/4/2017 05:50:51 pm

So sorry this happened to you...it has happened to me too so I loved your pissed off note. Good for you!

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Liz
7/4/2017 06:28:10 pm

Who exactly do you want to kill with the gun you need?

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Christine
7/4/2017 07:17:54 pm

No one in particular, I would like it to protect myself against any force that wishes to harm me or my family. In a world like we live in today, bad things happen to good people. No harm in being aware and prepared.

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Edith
7/4/2017 06:28:33 pm

So sorry for you Della. It happened to us on a personal credit card but for a much smaller amount and while it was being fixed we used another card . A small inconvenience compared to what you're going through.

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Karen
7/4/2017 07:18:51 pm

Sorry to hear of this.

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Jeannie
7/4/2017 07:19:34 pm

I am so sorry! I've had it happen too!

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Rachel
7/4/2017 07:38:15 pm

I have been scammed also .you feel sick to your stomach. Hang in their .R

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Maggie link
7/4/2017 07:54:18 pm

This is so horrible that you have been violated in different ways, You've worked so hard to establish good credit and then a criminal turns your life upside down out of greed and evil. I am sorry that this happened to you. I feel bad about what you are going through. At the risk of sounding cliche, guns aren't the answer. The US is in a very sorry state as a result. Glad that your bank ate the fraudulent charges against your card. Wishing that life gives you a bountiful feast of brownies instead of lemons. xoxo 😘

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Starr
7/4/2017 08:13:14 pm

I bet you could get a shotgun in Canada. That at least give you some protection and you won't miss when you shot it!
As far as CC thiefs, I had them run up $10,000 in less than few hours, hundreds of miles from where I was. One good thing is CC companies do go after the thieves.
As for spam crap in your email, call your internet server company and have them put a filter on your email for spam. They can do that without much trouble on their end
I'm sorry you'll having to deal with any of this.
Just don't let them consume your thoughts or they win!
Hugs from this gun toting old lady of the south 😉

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Patty
7/4/2017 08:26:11 pm

I can feel for you. I had movers steal from us, have had my credit card compromised at least 3 times, had a new credit card opened & used with all of my info, and had someone file their taxes using my social security number. In the end, these crooks will get their wrath!

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Barbara
7/4/2017 08:26:50 pm

So sorry to hear. I hope all is cleared up quickly without too much fuss.

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Robin Stewart
7/4/2017 09:45:32 pm

Thank goodness that you noticed it! My husband had a card stolen from his suit jacket hanging in his private office. Luckily, a clerk questioned a man who was trying to buy $600.00 in (cheap) shoes. She asked for his ID and he ran. Then a friend of my husbands had someone use his card to book a diving trip in the Caribbean! It takes all kinds!

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Kathryn link
7/5/2017 03:25:28 am

Christine , Sorry to hear about what you are going through. We moved to FL 4 YEARS AGO. Our credits cards were compromised 3 times in the first 2 years. Now we have to make sure when we pump gas the card slot is not loose, which might indicate they have been rigged. Criminals are losers and numerous . Thankfully our credit card company will overnight new cards. Keep your chin up, do not let these evil people get you down .

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Carole Beeson
7/5/2017 05:50:52 am

Have felt your rage as it happened to me. Now when I charge to a new account I always wonder; also when the credit card statement arrives will I find a new gut ache!

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Jennifer
7/6/2017 05:30:41 am

We have had this happen 4 times-usually while paying for gas at the pump. The solution we have is that we have a second credit card with a very low credit limit-$1,500. That is now the one we use for online purchases, gas etc. This card has no annual fee so gives us peace of mind and costs nothing. As an aside, when I am paying for gas at the pump, I enter an amount that ends in 1, i.e. $101 or $51. One of the problems we had was distinguishing our own fill ups from fraud which usually ends in 0 as they use the preset button amounts.

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