There is a special place in Purgatory

[ShadowHM]

And I hereby volunteer to take charge of it. :angry:

We arrived home from the cottage tonight to discover that our house had been broken into at some point over the weekend.

After dumping out all manner of boxes, drawers, cupboards, etc. it appears that they failed to find anything of value. Our music equipment, television, DVD player and so forth were apparently insufficiently easy to transport and insufficiently valuable to take. The only thing missing that we can see is a number of coins - proof silver dollars of each of the past 20 years. We don't keep anything of value in the house. GAWD - we don't own anything of value besides the damn house itself.

However, having determined that they had clearly squandered their time in our home, they took vengeance upon us for wasting their time.

Our house is full of stained glass. It has been my husband's hobby for about 20 years. And the bastards decided to break a lot of it.

Now, stained glass items have minimal value in the sense that the materials are not costly. (One of the reasons why it makes such a good hobby.) What makes stained glass valuable is the man-hours it takes to put them together. Two of the items broken were the result of literally hundreds of hours of labour.

One was a Tiffany design that had 2600 individually cut, wrapped and soldered pieces in it. One was a sampler that my husband had made to show all the kinds of glass he had ever worked with, as a guide to selecting glass for other projects. It had at least 1200 individual pieces of glass in it.

And, to insult to injury, they dumped a lot of the glass on my BED ! My water-bed!

I have no recourse against these anonymous bastards. I know that fulminating here is not going to accomplish anything. But I did need to get this off my chest to be able to get to sleep tonight.