highroller4321 wrote:If they were all sitting in a pile than why wouldn't they just take the pile instead of picking through it?? Seems very strange.
There were quite a few things that were a little "off." The above is one.
My brother and his wife are in an apartment while they wait for their new home to be built, and so they have some stuff stored at my house. In my bedroom on my dresser was a jewelry box that had my brother’s cufflink collection in it, and a diamond ring. They took the diamond ring, left the cufflinks (some of them are very valuable), but took a pile of 2009 nickels off my dresser (about $1.25).
They took my laptop, but left my computer. They took my xBox, but left my BlueRay player. They lugged off 4 boxes of wheat cents, but didn't feel like taking some silver quarters and dimes. And of course, the kicker is that they stole my pillow case (I assume they didn’t come prepared with a bag to carry the smaller items in).
The randomness of what was taken, and what was left, mixed with how they were able to cherry pick the most valuable item out of a bunch in one scenario, but leave a pile of valuable things untouched while taking something trivial is enough to drive a feller mad.
"Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool." ~Eliot