You are a statistic

I have been in the U.S. for slightly less (to be precise, three days) than a year, and in best Baltimore statistics manner, we became victims of a crime.

Today our house was broken into, i.e. people came, made an incredible mess, and left with a sizable bunch of valuables. My landlady seems to have surprised them when she returned home, but luckily the burglars seem to have left the house in another direction, so nothing happened to her.

The house was a total mess, judging from what I was told... with the biggest chaos in my room. Even after my landlady (before I returned after work) has cleaned up, there was still stuff everywhere. Overall, computers, watches, and all kind of valuables disappeared. Including a very heavy safe.

In my room, a MacBook, a (still fairly good) photo camera, a monitor, hard disks, a PDA, a check book, and all kinds of big and small things were on open display. But, incredibly enough, I am missing nothing. I seem to have lucked out; they got surprised before they could make off with all of my stuff. Instead, they overturned every box, cupboard, trunk, drawer, and paper and book stack they could find in my room.

And, they brought a bottle of Bacardi Rum into my room.