Tricky situation: Roommate's nephew stole my PSP

[VanillaGorilla]

Here is the situation: I live in collegiate housing, and one of my roommates had his nephew stay with us for a couple days. I put my PSP into a drawer everytime I am not playing it. I leave for school on Wednesday afternoon, come home Wednesday night, and it's gone. The only one in my apartment during the time I was gone was my roommates nephew. I asked him and my roommate if they had seen it, and they said no.

The tricky part is, I don't want to completely alienate the guy I have to live with, and grill him about his nephew, who has since skipped town, stealing my PSP. So how do I broach the subject? I could go to the collegiate housing office and complain, and see how they handle it.

Also, this roommate of mine...is somewhat of a scary dude. I get the mail for our apartment, and he's always getting stuff from County Corrections, so I am assuming he's had run ins.

Advice?

 

[quantumcreep]

Confront him, then sleep with your back to the wall.

 

[JJSP]

Beat his ass?

 

[Foo228]

Best thing you could do is tell your coordinators so you can't get in any mishaps yourself.

 

[Rig]

I'd talk to your roommate, and then possibly get the police involved.

 

[Jesus_S_Preston]

Stick it in her his pooper.

 

[joe2187]

Kill him, and make a PSP out of his pelvis bone.

 

[Sporadic]

[quote name='VanillaGorilla']Advice?[/QUOTE]

Quit being a bitch and talk to your roommate.

 

[Phorty Ounce]

Grill him about your PSP, and demand him to find you another one or buy another one.

Then stitch your buttocks together when you go to sleep.

 

[Sofa King Kool]

You've always seemed like a very blunt, straight to the point, no bullshit, kinda guy OP. I'm surprised you didn't start grilling him the moment he became a suspect...

Kid took it. Beat him up.

 

[Phorty Ounce]

Looks like Vanilla Gorilla is scared of a Gorilla stronger than him.

Hahahah...hah.ha? Nothing? Assholes.

 

[fatherofcaitlyn]

You're not projecting yourself correctly.

 

[xeno]

call police? if you have his name and a face pic....

 

[thesimplicity]

Get a safe or a lockbox.

Er... assault your roommate's nephew at his home, take back your PSP, then get a safe or a lockbox.

 

[Ikohn4ever]

shine a light in his face when asking him questions

 

[dafoomie]

[quote name='Sporadic']Quit being a bitch and talk to your roommate.[/QUOTE]
He said it.

 

[Paco]

Hold a gun when answering these questions and smile at him. Every time he threatens you, bring up those corrections mails that he constantly gets and say "Who's gonna believe you?"

 

[Halo05]

Quit living with other people?

 

[billyrox]

[quote name='Sporadic']Quit being a bitch and talk to your roommate.[/quote]

 

[JolietJake]

Ask him if he really wants you to call the police (given his past). Unless he just dosen't give a , i bet he gets the shit back.

 

[linkpwns]

I didn't think someone like VanillaGorilla could be so anti-confrontational.

But if he touches your stuff, you talk to your roommate about it.
But I'd first make sure you didn't just misplace the damn thing, so you don't accuse him of doing something he didn't.

 

[goukill1120]

Steal something expensive of your roommate's, bring it to a pawn shop, put that money towards a new PSP.

 

[lilboo]

Just out of curiosity, how old is this nephew?

 

[cochesecochese]

[quote name='Sporadic']Quit being a bitch and talk to your roommate.[/quote]

Right answer.

[quote name='linkpwns']I didn't think someone like VanillaGorilla could be so anti-confrontational.[/quote]

Serious? He's tenacious as a motherer, at least on the boards. I'll give him that. No matter how many inane threads he starts and gets them shoved back down his throat he keeps coming back for more. He's basically the unofficial CAG punching bag.

 

[HowStern]

[quote name='goukill1120']Steal something expensive of your roommate's, bring it to a pawn shop, put that money towards a new PSP.[/quote]

I second this.

 

[QiG]

I second not living with someone else. I'm all for things everyone should experience at some point in their lives, but this is not one of them. My home is my domain and I can barely get over visitors coming over at all. (Yeah, we go to other people's houses 95% of the time)

 

[fatherofcaitlyn]

Talk to your local ROTC. See if they need a practice "dummy" for waterboarding.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Bah, you people don't know the situation. I didn't want to get all accusatory and alienate a guy who didn't steal it.

I asked my roommate about it last night, and he said he's going to his sisters house this weekend (the kids mom) and that he'll either get mine back, or take one of his 2 other PSP's he owns. Seems like everything is squared away.

 

[billyrox]

[quote name='VanillaGorilla']Bah, you people don't know the situation. I didn't want to get all accusatory and alienate a guy who didn't steal it.

I asked my roommate about it last night, and he said he's going to his sisters house this weekend (the kids mom) and that he'll either get mine back, or take one of his 2 other PSP's he owns. Seems like everything is squared away.[/quote]

glad its resolved.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Update: roommate ended up buying me a PSP, it's not a slim, but I think I actually prefer the bigger model, since it fits my hands better.

 

[DestroVega]

if he is getting shit from county corrections, how do you know he didn't steal it with his nephew there as a fall guy?

 

[Trancendental]

[quote name='VanillaGorilla']Update: roommate ended up buying me a PSP, it's not a slim, but I think I actually prefer the bigger model, since it fits my hands better.[/quote]

Thx for updating, I'm still pissed we'll never find out what happened to that other guy and the food stealing - after all that advice!

Any word on what went on with his nephew?

 

[rajchakrabarti]

Aren’t slims more expensive ? IF so aren’t you losing out if he bought you the cheaper older version ?

 

[VanillaGorilla]

[quote name='rajchakrabarti']Aren’t slims more expensive ? IF so aren’t you losing out if he bought you the cheaper older version ?[/quote]A PSP is a PSP as far as I am concerned.

 

[crunchb3rry]

Seems he's a pretty decent guy to replace something somebody else stole. Hopefully he dimed the kid to his mom.

 

[naes]

[quote name='crunchb3rry']Seems he's a pretty decent guy to replace something somebody else stole. Hopefully he dimed the kid to his mom.[/quote]
I have a feeling he didn't buy the Phat PSP, regardless of what VanillaGorilla says.