Contiuning the saga

[brigdh]

I filed a police report today about my missing ID and keys; unfortunately, it turns out that they don't have any way of getting phone numbers off the dorm phones, since they don't have CallerID. Without that or a name, the only chance of actual finding this girl is if she happens to have a deep and life-altering spiritual epiphany, and shows up at the police station as part of her program of reliving herself of sin before embarking on a world-wide preaching tour.

Yeah. I've got my fingers crossed.

So, they're sending someone in the next few hours to change the locks on my doors, given that she's more likely to break in and take stuff than see the light. Unless I get my keys back in the next five days, this will cost me a hundred dollars.

I now hate this girl so much more than I did already.


In happier news, go look at the wallpapers I made for lyricaldesktops. Muraki/Tsuzuki and Koumyou.

Comments

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

That's strange and astonishing, and I bet al Quaeda would like to know about it. The business about being unable to figure out where an incoming call was placed from if the receiving phone didn't have caller ID, I mean.

Not that I mean to suggest there's anything you can or should do about it. Just, I stand back in awe at yet another example of bureaucratic ineptitude in action, that's all.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

What a bitch that girl is. Is there a campus facebook you could look through or something?

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Uh, it's really easy to mess up caller ID. You can get blocks and places like office buildings, dorms, and hotels are usually doing so much rerouting and using virtual systems that it's hard to get usable numbers off them.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's easy to mess up caller ID. I just find it difficult to believe that there's no way at all to trace a call that hasn't been made using special security precautions. My experience with analogous issues is out of date, I'll freely admit -- but generally speaking, it has seemed to me that new communications technologies tended to leave more evidence, not less.

In my previous life, I once had to trace many thousands of wire transfers that were made within a few hours of one another, from places all over the world, and figure out where the orders had come from, months after the critical day. And amazingly, the financial institutions involved could do it. We hear these days about our security services going through people's phone records to find out who's been calling them, and the phone companies can evidently do that.

I don't mean to suggest you don't know way more about this than I do, for all my quibbling. But while it wouldn't surprise me to hear that it simply wasn't cost-effective for people to do the necessary sleuthing for an incident like a student swiping another's ID, with a hundred dollar's damage to the victim, it does surprise me to hear that it really would be impossible to find out who made that call, no matter what law enforcement resources you threw at it.

[fadagaski.livejournal.com]

Ack. That sucks about the keys.

*steals wallpaper*

[redshoeson.livejournal.com]

Man, that sucks big time. I didn't realize that you lost your keys as well; I thought it was just the ID. Those are bee-ah-ches to replace; I agree. X/

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Thanks, though.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Ah, well.

Glad you liked it!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

No, unfortunately. Even if we did have something like that, there's far too many students to have any chance of finding her picture. Good idea, though.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm sure there is some way to get the number, but I think the police who came out to talk to me simply didn't care. They also didn't bother to take a physical description of the girl I saw, for instance, so I assuming that they have no intention of doing anything other than filing a report and any actual resolution to the case would come from the girl handing herself in.

Which is so frustrating.