SmokenToke1
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Yep! Got burgled. The last year I've been living in a not-so-good neighborhood, and I thought that I had passed the worst phase – being a white, dorky newcomer. 
Just when I thought that I was cool with the guys chilling on the steps downstairs or just the general crowd around, I got taught a lesson.
That's not the funniest – or worst – of it. The burglars who had come in left my laptop (that I'm typing this on), left my (admittedly shitty) TV, but took all my nice pipes and bongs! I got a little mini-balcony, and smoked a lot on it during the past year, using my nice pieces. The idea was, “Hey it's the 'hood, right?” Looks like the hood got back at me in a creative way. Which makes me think that this burglary wasn't mean or even done with bad intentions, in a way. It was “just business” for a few guys on the block, and a way to play a wry practical joke on me at the same time.
I don't think I was doing anything terrible – people here generally are very relaxed about the weed, the guys smoke it on the corner and even the older folks are pretty cheerful about it – so it doesn't feel like a punishment(the local people I know haven't changed their attitude towards me at all, either). Just... Like a practical joke. Maybe a part of me being so upbeat about this is the fact that I don't want to think someone has a grudge against me, maybe it's because I just ripped a few hits of nice, dank Lemon Haze on the one shitty plastic bong they left, I dunno. But it all does seem very amusing.
It is a bit of a bummer, though – they got my Roor (which I suspect was a fake but nevertheless a vey good one), a nice vape that I had got from Smokewire just a month before, some nice glass pieces (pipes and bongs), two bongs that I had brought back from Amsterdam (sentimental rather than really monetary value), a few really cool bronze pipes that I bought from a metalworker acquaintance, and then a bunch of less valuable stuff (grinders, etc).
Have any of you been burgled or gotten your pieces stolen? It isn't a great thing to have happened, and these bongs were nice, but not end-all-be-all items necessary for my life or a deep part of my self-identity, so... I'm not too torn up about it. But I think a lot of enthusiasts would disagree with me(I certainly know a few people for whom marijuana is close to the end-all-be-all), what about the crowd on these forums? 
Just when I thought that I was cool with the guys chilling on the steps downstairs or just the general crowd around, I got taught a lesson.That's not the funniest – or worst – of it. The burglars who had come in left my laptop (that I'm typing this on), left my (admittedly shitty) TV, but took all my nice pipes and bongs!
I got a little mini-balcony, and smoked a lot on it during the past year, using my nice pieces. The idea was, “Hey it's the 'hood, right?” Looks like the hood got back at me in a creative way. Which makes me think that this burglary wasn't mean or even done with bad intentions, in a way. It was “just business” for a few guys on the block, and a way to play a wry practical joke on me at the same time.I don't think I was doing anything terrible – people here generally are very relaxed about the weed, the guys smoke it on the corner and even the older folks are pretty cheerful about it – so it doesn't feel like a punishment(the local people I know haven't changed their attitude towards me at all, either). Just... Like a practical joke.
Maybe a part of me being so upbeat about this is the fact that I don't want to think someone has a grudge against me, maybe it's because I just ripped a few hits of nice, dank Lemon Haze on the one shitty plastic bong they left, I dunno. But it all does seem very amusing.It is a bit of a bummer, though – they got my Roor (which I suspect was a fake but nevertheless a vey good one), a nice vape that I had got from Smokewire just a month before, some nice glass pieces (pipes and bongs), two bongs that I had brought back from Amsterdam (sentimental rather than really monetary value), a few really cool bronze pipes that I bought from a metalworker acquaintance, and then a bunch of less valuable stuff (grinders, etc).
Have any of you been burgled or gotten your pieces stolen? It isn't a great thing to have happened, and these bongs were nice, but not end-all-be-all items necessary for my life or a deep part of my self-identity, so... I'm not too torn up about it.
But I think a lot of enthusiasts would disagree with me(I certainly know a few people for whom marijuana is close to the end-all-be-all), what about the crowd on these forums? 
