Im an unhappy bunny...
Go on, ask me why...
Well I'll tell you anyway, because i'm sad and sharing my grievances for sympathy from a random group of electronic avatars that I dont know yet love a game I love will make me feel better.
My wife runs a small restaurant, we bought it about three weeks ago. Nothing fancy, a lunchtime-only diner in an industrial estate, she is a very popular cook and has captured a large chunk of the tradesman market already, taking custom from several existing places in addition to the regulars who stuck with it.
Three nights ago someone broke in through the office window and totally trashed the place. Ankle-deep in glass and pottery shards type trashed. We made a police complaint, they dust for prints etc and we tidy up. Later the next day I get a call from an unknown number and some guy starts threatening the restaurant, demanding to speak to the former owner, who he maintains owes him moneys. I explain it has been sold and invite him over to sort the issue out, I also contact the previous owner, though he claims no knowledge of the affair.
Unfortunately the guy doesnt come over for a chat. The next communique I receive is when he (or one of his) tosses a firebomb through one of the front windows, again, middle of Friday night. I kinda half expected it however and was on a cot in the kitchen, was able to salvage the situation with minimal damage. Another police report. No prints this time, in Sweden apparently they dont even bother unless someone went inside, it wont stand in court so they wont even dust.... Whatever, to my mind you collect all evidence, even stuff that is blatantly inadmissible for the purposes of investigation.
The police explain that they cant help, they know no more than me, less even since they havent spoken to this 'guy'. He isnt a priority since no actions can be construed a threat against my person or that of any other, he's threatening a building. The fact I could have been killed is not relevant, it was not their obvious intent and does not constitute more than attempted-arson. And they flat-out refuse to watch the place, insufficient resources. They do however pledge to have a couple of cars swing by on patrols in the wee hours the next morning. Their advice is 'try to open a dialogue...'
Next night (last night) they come back on mopeds and put paving slabs through all 7 front plate windows. I know this because I was at the top of a 40-foot chimney-stack belonging to the neighbouring bakery (who had kindly advanced permission) with an Image Intensifier scope and a really really expensive NV camera I had rented. Rather than wade down and get lynched I call the police and settle for good footage of faces and number plates and so on. As they leave I come down from my perch and survey the mess. Within 10 minutes the police are back on site and i'm making yet another report. Incidentally at no point until I called did a police car show, their promise to keep an eye open was empty.
Yet at the end of this report is an arrest!!!
I have just been arrested for 'surveillance filming without permission', not withstanding that the property I filmed is mine, and the events were crimes commited against me. They confiscated my hardware, which is going to cost me some 5,000 dollars equivalent in fines because it was rented. The footage I captured is uncertain, they cannot decide if it is evidence against them or me or both. The current lean is cant be used against them, is the entire case against me.-