The pervert downstairs is stealing my clothes, should I blac
Jul 16, 2024 2:01:11 GMT -5
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Post by allegedly bryan on Jul 16, 2024 2:01:11 GMT -5
Hey 667 it’s been a while and I miss you, right now I’m here because I need your help. Question in title.
Over the last 6 months to a year I’ve had clothes go missing. The most notable is a leather jacket that belonged to my grandfather. It actually went missing before and I put up posters, and my landlord sent me a pic of it in a common area saying he found it. Though I was missing several pairs of pants at this point I just tried to forget about it. Months later, when I thought this was done, I was tired of wearing my remaining pair of formal slacks and finally bought replacement jeans. In under a week the new jeans and the jacket went missing again.
I thought I was forgetful so I traced my steps constantly. I thought I might have been crazy so I saw a doctor and installed a camera and trackers. I put up more posters for the jacket but someone kept taking them down. At this point though, I fear the most likely scenario is that the pervert downstairs is stealing my clothes.
This dude, “Jim,” lives downstairs from me and has been trying to get my attention ever since I started living in my current place a few years back. During our first conversation he made sure to let me know I was cuter with my old hair and that the previous tenant of my apartment s****d his c**k in my living room. Cool. Kept it friendly but distant until I had to reject him in no uncertain terms but it didn’t stop the contact, texts, hellos, etc. Around the time my clothes were all going missing he fell on some hard times and moved out. Couldn’t be sure he was the suspect but once he left I felt relieved. Then the jacket went missing again.
But now I felt even crazier because he was ruled out as a suspect!! Felt sure it wasn’t my roommate, I’ve known them for a decade plus, searched their closet (:/), they don’t have sensible motive. Felt like it wasn’t my landlord because they’ve never had keys to the bolt on our door and couldn’t get in when we weren’t present before. I felt pretty sure it’s not my fault, I’m not missing chunks of time, I’ve tried to rule out mental illness and CO2 poisoning, but I am missing… just so many clothes.
Then a couple weeks ago, my downstairs neighbor “Bill” who lived next to Jim when he was here passed along some info. Bill said Jim came back, and robbed him. I’ve struggled to get info about this from Bill, but he says Jim knew where he stashed some money and now Bill’s gonna file a police report. He’s convinced also that Jim has master keys from living at this property for so long.
Jim had never stopped texting me trying to get my attention so I said I saw him around the apartment on the day of the alleged robbery, just didn’t say hi cause I wasn’t sure if it was him. He said, oh yeah, I was there to help Bill move. Well I asked Bill if that’s true and he said no.
So this is where I’m at. I have information and suspicion but nothing on camera, no concrete evidence. Are there any ideas as to what I can do here? I’ve made peace in a way with this and was ready to let it go, but with the new information… if I can get a resolution it would soothe something in me. Police won’t care about the info I have.
Do I ask Bill if he wants my info for a police report… and then use that as leverage to try and get Jim to admit to this? If he says no, I still don’t have any proof. Imagine if I’m wrong.
Do I pretend to be interested in Jim and then search his home discreetly? I’m much less interested in this.
This has seriously been driving me crazy. Thoughts?
Over the last 6 months to a year I’ve had clothes go missing. The most notable is a leather jacket that belonged to my grandfather. It actually went missing before and I put up posters, and my landlord sent me a pic of it in a common area saying he found it. Though I was missing several pairs of pants at this point I just tried to forget about it. Months later, when I thought this was done, I was tired of wearing my remaining pair of formal slacks and finally bought replacement jeans. In under a week the new jeans and the jacket went missing again.
I thought I was forgetful so I traced my steps constantly. I thought I might have been crazy so I saw a doctor and installed a camera and trackers. I put up more posters for the jacket but someone kept taking them down. At this point though, I fear the most likely scenario is that the pervert downstairs is stealing my clothes.
This dude, “Jim,” lives downstairs from me and has been trying to get my attention ever since I started living in my current place a few years back. During our first conversation he made sure to let me know I was cuter with my old hair and that the previous tenant of my apartment s****d his c**k in my living room. Cool. Kept it friendly but distant until I had to reject him in no uncertain terms but it didn’t stop the contact, texts, hellos, etc. Around the time my clothes were all going missing he fell on some hard times and moved out. Couldn’t be sure he was the suspect but once he left I felt relieved. Then the jacket went missing again.
But now I felt even crazier because he was ruled out as a suspect!! Felt sure it wasn’t my roommate, I’ve known them for a decade plus, searched their closet (:/), they don’t have sensible motive. Felt like it wasn’t my landlord because they’ve never had keys to the bolt on our door and couldn’t get in when we weren’t present before. I felt pretty sure it’s not my fault, I’m not missing chunks of time, I’ve tried to rule out mental illness and CO2 poisoning, but I am missing… just so many clothes.
Then a couple weeks ago, my downstairs neighbor “Bill” who lived next to Jim when he was here passed along some info. Bill said Jim came back, and robbed him. I’ve struggled to get info about this from Bill, but he says Jim knew where he stashed some money and now Bill’s gonna file a police report. He’s convinced also that Jim has master keys from living at this property for so long.
Jim had never stopped texting me trying to get my attention so I said I saw him around the apartment on the day of the alleged robbery, just didn’t say hi cause I wasn’t sure if it was him. He said, oh yeah, I was there to help Bill move. Well I asked Bill if that’s true and he said no.
So this is where I’m at. I have information and suspicion but nothing on camera, no concrete evidence. Are there any ideas as to what I can do here? I’ve made peace in a way with this and was ready to let it go, but with the new information… if I can get a resolution it would soothe something in me. Police won’t care about the info I have.
Do I ask Bill if he wants my info for a police report… and then use that as leverage to try and get Jim to admit to this? If he says no, I still don’t have any proof. Imagine if I’m wrong.
Do I pretend to be interested in Jim and then search his home discreetly? I’m much less interested in this.
This has seriously been driving me crazy. Thoughts?