Man that sucks Salmo. Losing personal effects like that is a serious PITA. Even worse, the feeling of being violated by theft is something that pisses me off more than most other bad things that can happen to oneself. I'm sure you can relate.

When my Wife and I lived in Bellevue, we fell victim to a smash and grab car prowl on Christmas eve, 1997. We had just returned from my Mother's Christmas Eve dinner, and had planned to go to my Fathers house before coming home, so we had all his and my brothers gifts in the car. it got late so we decided to go over there the next day, and left everything in the trunk. That night, someone broke a window, stole the stereo, and had the gumption to pop the trunk, finding several hundred dollars of gifts ready for Christmas morning. We lost it all, and I can't begin to tell you had infuriated I was after that day. Christmas F'in eve.......

After that, I baited the car and my wife's car with 'goods' in plain sight during the afternoons and evenings, and waited with a baseball bat & cell phone in the parking lot late into the night for hours waiting for that son of a bitch to come back. I swear I must have been out there for two-three hours a night for two weeks straight... in the winter.

He's lucky as hell he never came back.