Here is a hypothetical question.
Say you have to leave the country for some important matter, you give your key to someone you trust, say a relative, to look after your place when you’re gone. You come back and find your apartment’s been wiped clean, the lease broken and rented out to someone else. You’re left with the clothes you have on and a handbag.
What would you do?
Call the police?
That would be my suggestion too.
What if you don't want to go to the police because it involves family, what else could you do?
Then its a bit complicated. Can the hand bag be used as an effective weapon? Maybe just take a swing with it? All we want is break his head. Whatever works.
YELL!
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What if you don't want to go to the police because it involves family, what else could you do?
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well do you want to just take it? or you want revenge or you want justice.
if you want to just take it, dont do anything, treat the people as you did and just dont trust them again, I will not recommend this approach.
revenge.. you can go to their house with a few pals and a few baseball bats, break up everything in sight...throw tar over the whole house, spray paint the walls and break the windows. will not recommend that either.
justice- call the police and file a case, you can always drop charges later. have your story and witnesses ready.
it all depends on where you are, In Pakistan it may take ages to get a resolution. Additionally it deoewnds on what type of people they are, they may make your life more difficult after u have reoprted it to teh cops.
If its US/canada etc, i say hell with it and take these guys to court, have them thrown in jail etc. They obviously did not respect you as a family member or your property, why should you be bothered that they are family?
If this is Pakistan..it all boils down to connections, how much stomach do you have for ghunda gardee etc vs. them...or how much you want to just let it be and not create bigger problems for yourself.
Sigh!
I was coming home a couple of days ago, and this lady stopped me to ask for directions. She was lost in the subway station and seemed very stressed out. So I found out where she was heading and turned out she was going my way. So I told her she could just come with me and I'll show her which bus to take once we get off at our station. She was an older European lady with a cute accent. Waiting for the train, she asked me if I wouldn't mind telling her if I lived in an apartment. I told her I did, she inquired about how much I paid etc. I asked her if she was looking for a place to live... that's when her eyes welled up and she told me pretty much the scenario I've posted up there. Her mother passed away a month ago, so she had flown out to hungary, when she came back, one of her relatives had sold all her stuff, furniture and antiques she said she had been collecting for over 35 years. I was horrified. She seemed very nicely dressed, a long beige leather coat and a leather handbag. By now we had got on the train, it was really sad. I almost teared up while listening to her. There were times when I got paranoid and wondered if she was some way trying to get something out of me, but I think I was wrong. My first reaction had also been to tell her to go to the police, apparently she's been on the streets for two weeks now. None of her friends are willing to help her, she didn't have anywhere to go. She kept wiping away tears, I felt so frustrated. Anyways, once we got off, her bus was ready to leave, she looked at me and said, what do you think I should do? And I told her what I had been telling her all along, I said you need to go to the police. She shook her head, put her hand on my shoulder, said, thank you, you were very kind. And left for her bus.
All along I had wondered if she would try to ask me for money, or something, but once she was gone I realized she wasn't.
I keep remembering when she had said that she had left it all to God to sort things out now, something my mom usually says. It irks me now really. If your relative can do you wrong, why can't you atleast make the effort to have it undone.
Anyways, she's long gone and I've just been thinking about the shyte that happens around us, I had suggested she go to a shelter and she said she would lose whatever she had left, pointing to her handbag.
I just feel so bad, now that I am done with my exam today and have my brain back, that's all I've been thinking about.
Thats a sad story. I guess, if she is gone, then u can't do much. I know a few people, whose level of tolerence is phenomenal. Where you or I will just itch to take action, they have a much laid back way of tackling life's problems. This is probably an extreme case.
That's sad :(.
This is sad. But if it was a hypothetical scenario, I'd have suggested JUDGE JUDY
This is very sad indeed. I guess it's highly unlikely that you ever meet her again, but if you do, I'd make sure to help her in one way or another. Even if it's only convincing her to go to the police and accompany her on the way there.
I say, take justice into your own hands and get some thugs on the aunti-jee to finish her off once and for all. Vengeful, eh?
:D
...but in all seriousness, I would suggest getting the police involved and then a lawyer, in that order.
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ugh....sad story.
no more sad stories....please.