Thou shall burn for thy sins.

I have a theory that for every good-hearted person in the world there will be two thieves. I’m not necessarily calling myself a good-hearted person as I have (on occasion) left restaurants without paying the bill, enjoyed a few grapes courtesy of the local grocery store, and electronically transferred a mere ninety-three thousand dollars into an illegal Swiss bank account. But, actions like these do not justify me as being a wrong-doer or a thief.

Not too long ago my one and only brother (we’ll call him Bernie because, what the hell, everyone else does) got his car broken into and his stereo stolen. My question would be; why steal a twenty dollar stereo from a guy who makes more money in a day than I do in a month? It’s pointless. If I were the thief in that particular situation I would have simply knocked on his door and asked for the twenty dollars.

Hearing this story also got me thinking. My fiancé, Beleisha’s car got stolen years ago and this thief wasn’t after any monetary value for the vehicle (or the wallet sitting in the passenger seat). He simply wanted to drive a few miles instead of walking them in his drunken stupor. Needless to say the car was totaled.

Now I don’t mean to complain, but given these two unfortunate incidents for two innocent people I must add that I had a similar occurrence happen to me. Not once, but twice! I was horrified when my little Civic was broken into and the stereo was stolen, but was beyond words when my beloved Camaro took off down the street without her trusted owner at the helm. Fortunately, Farm Bureau was there to take care of my losses. Oh Farm Bureau, you will be missed…

My point is that four cars for every three people in America are broken into and/or stolen. How do we stop this from happening? Do we build a fancy new car alarm which would lock these thieves inside of the car and play the “Chicken Dance” over and over again until he spontaneously combusts due to lack of sanity chemicals in the brain? Or do we simply ignore the fact that they are running our lives and hope that our tireless ignorance will change their actions? I don’t know about you, but my vote is for spontaneous combustion.