My brother and I had a huge collection of NES games until my brother's friend's older sister and her boyfriend broke into our place and stole most of them, but Big Nose was one of the few games the assholes missed. Thus, I ended up playing it endlessly until we got a newer system.
Wow, talk about stealing candy from babies! Were they drug addict adults, or just gawd awful bullies?
Druggie teenagers. Shitty part was that the cops couldn't prove it was them, but it was pretty obvious that they were the ones who did it. Double shittiness is that they knew we'd just come out of the women's shelter and weren't exactly in the greatest situation at the time, hence us moving into that sketchy neighbourhood. Nice welcoming party, eh?
Luckily, they missed a few of the games -- including Big Nose the Caveman -- and didn't take anything else, so it wasn't anywhere near as bad as it could have been. I'd still love to track them down and kick their asses, though.
To restore some faith in humanity, however: Our landlord was great about the whole thing. As soon as he heard about what had happened (which wasn't until much later in the evening, since he'd been at work), he rushed out to purchase a new door and locks, then stayed late into the night to install them himself despite having to get up early for work the following morning. He also stuck around for a while to comfort my mom and get her input on what he could do to help her feel safe again.
He was an awesome guy.
