To the assholes that stole my friends stroller right out of the apartment building on Lynnett Road, you will get yours!! how about heading to a building that actually can afford to buy a new stroller and do your shopping there next time?? or how about not spending your welfare cheque on dope and liquor and actually use it to buy something for your child? So sad it’s hard to be mad
—Associated Swipee
This article appears in Feb 19-25, 2009.
So this is how these strollers get onto buses.
Was your friend’s apartment actually broken into or did she leave the door unlocked? OR did she leave the stroller outside her apartment?
If her apartment was actually broken into (doors were locked and someone got in anyway) then I feel bad for her, if the situation involved the other two options, well then your friend’s just stupid. I’d have a hard time feeling bad for someone who didn’t lock their apartment and got shit stolen or for someone who left their stroller outside of their apartment.
But that’s just me. I live in a building where people could afford to go buy a new stroller, but the tenants here usually lock their doors and I haven’t seen one stroller laying around in the hallways so…
why can’t your lazy kid learn to walk?
People should not take what is not theirs in the first place, regardless where it is. Nice Attitudes Pricks !!
Sorry, Scott, but if you leave things unattended and out in the open it becomes fair game. If you can’t put your toys away at night, don’t cry when they get taken.
Excuse me, but Lynette Road is one of the sleaziest and drug-infested neighbourhoods in Spryfield. It’s a wonder everything isn’t bolted down.
Some of those lower income apartments are really small and already full of stuff, esp w/ kids around. I can see how somebody might be so desperate for space that they’d leave stuff out in the hall… Doesn’t make them stupid, strollers are not toys, and anyone who steals baby gear should be horsewhipped.
Baby gear is drought in pencil like madness.. just sayin…
TTFN– Isn’t all of Spryfield sleazy and drug infested?
Okay.I’m the mother of the child whose stroller was stolen and i’d like to comment to each one of you who had something to say.
PrettyKitty:my bldg isnt a security bldg, the stroller was not inside my apt, nor had it been since the day it was bought. but, it was not sitting out on the side of the road on garbage day either. No, I’m not stupid, anyone who would walk in and just take something that is not rightfully theirs is the stupid one. Obviously the person who took it had a child of their own, which would also mean they get a child tax credit cheque the middle of every month. so maybe they should have taken that money and bought their own instead of taking from a 2 year old. I can more than afford another stroller, but I shouldnt have to.
StupidPhat: I am not crying at all actually. I might cry a little for the poor child whose parents had to steal to provide for them, pretty sad that the 400$ a month they get a month cannot afford them an 80$ stroller at walmart.maybe they need to stop having kids if they cant afford to take care of them. And you dont seem like the brightest crayon in the box either, especially when u feel the need to call a 2 year old stupid. Seems to me you have a lot of growing up to do.
TTFN: Lynnett Rd is actually not the sleaziest part of Spryfield. It’s funny how you can quickly label a street or community
like that when you dont even live here. Not all of Spryfield is bad, every community has its bad and its good so u should really get your facts straight. I didnt grow up in Spryfield, actually outside city limits, but I would not be so quick to judge because for the people I have met from here its not as awful as everyone makes it out to be.
and to all the rest of the commenters, its nice to know there are other decent people out there who understand how disturbing it is to have to steal from a child.
Excuse me, I did live in Spryfield, right around the corner from where you speak. I do know the area and its history and, sweetcakes, it ain’t pretty. Sure, there’s lots of nice people out there but the criminal element has a very strong presence – plus the fucking drug/family wars – sorry, but you couldn’t give me a free house in that area.
well chances are it was unattended..
so figure this out…
strollermom- “pretty sad that the 400$ a month they get a month cannot afford them an 80$ stroller ” $400 a month? How the hell do they get a tax credit of $400 a month? does the tax credit get that high? If so i need to divorce my husband, quit my job and move with my three children.. oh wow $1200 free a month?.. that would be GREAT!
I used to live in Spryfield awhile back and didnt mind it at all but I prefer where I live now, the north end.
Strollermom: Obviously the person who took your stroller *isn’t* stupid because now they have a stroller and didn’t have to pay for it. The fact that your building is not a secure building yet you STILL left the stroller outside your apartment is S-T-U-P-I-D. It sucks you’re out a stroller, but c’mon! You’re expecting sympathy from us when you very well may have brought this upon yourself. Fact: if your stroller was locked up in your apartment you’d still have it and it wouldn’t be in the hands of someone else, who hey just got a free stroller.
And like TTFN said: you live in the skids of Spyfield FFS!
Look at it like this: if you had insurance on that stroller you’d be denied a pay out because you left it out, ripe for the pickin’.
If you couldn’t afford to replace it, why didn’t you keep it locked up? Shit, I live in an upscale security building and I lock my doors even when I go to get the mail that’s just down the hall. Why? Well because I don’t want my shit to get stolen. Novel concept, eh?
Leaving any item, be it a stroller, a case of beer, whatever, where it is not secure, is stupid. Yes, it’s absolutely shitty that people would steal something like that, but you know what? You should have at the very least taken the stroller in your apartment. It’s the equivalent of leaving a brand new LCD TV in the back of your unlocked car in the middle of the BLIP. It’s gonna get stolen.
The OP is bitching about scumbags who stole a stroller. Regardless of the circumstances- whether or not it was a secure building, in a good or bad area, or where the stroller was, whomever stole the stroller STOLE- as in they took something that didn’t belong to them- and there is no justifying that! Sure, maybe the owner of the stroller was too trusting; maybe she lived in the building for some time without incident, saw others doing the same with their strollers and so felt a false sense of security. I see bikes and strollers in the foyers of my friends buildings all the time. Nobody steals (then again I don’t live in N.A) There are plenty of old buildings around that have 3 floors and no elevators- so there’s no choice. I agree Pretty Kitty, she probably should have taken more care of where she left it, but still- is it really necessary to ream her out? I think some people are missing the point of this bitch.
REGARDLESS of where the stroller was left, this bitch is not about where it was left, this bitch is about the fact that someone stole a childs stroller.
Attacking a community is not the point of this bitch, the bitch is directed at the lowlifes who STOLE something that was not theirs. Whether or not the stroller was left somewhere that was accessible to whomever took it is not relevant! Anyone who looks at this bitch and views this as an OKAY thing to do, or that it was OBVIOUS this would happen, based on the location of the stroller or because it was in Spryfield, is just as pathetic as whoever stole the stroller!
Don’t get me wrong I think stealing from a child is deplorable, however, the mother of said child needs to take some responsibility in the matter, that’s all I’m saying. If she hadn’t left the stroller out in an unsecured building her kid’s stroller wouldn’t’ve gotten stolen. Even in secured buildings in upscale areas the lobby decor is usually bolted to the wall. Why? so it doesn’t get stolen. People will steal anything in any neighbourhood.
A friend of mine lives in the south end. He left his door unlocked in this second floor apartment to run across the street to the store. He was gone maybe 10 minutes. When he got back someone had come into his apartment and taken a jar of about $40 in change. People will steal from anywhere. However it’s important to be extra cautious in sketchy areas of town, and there’s no getting around it: Spryfield is sketchy. It has a rep for a reason, same as other communities around HRM. It’s a no brainer really: lock your shit up if you don’t want it taken.
Hopefully Strollermom has learned a lesson in all this and won’t keep her kids next stroller in the hallway, but rather locked up in her apartment.
That’s ALL I’m saying here.
I don’t think anyone on here, waw thinks it’s ok to steal something. What’s not ok is expecting sympathy when you pretty much gave the stroller to said thief.
What are we supposed to do, fall all over strollermom because did something incredibly stupid and now has to live with the consequences?
Sure stealing is wrong, and sure the person who stole it *is* a piece of shit, but you also have to admit that strollermom didn’t do her due diligence to the situation either. That’s all any of us are saying.
I don’t recall any post in this thread that taunts strollermom for having her stroller stolen; most are just saying that if you leave something out, unattended it might get stolen and in this case it did.
prettykitty, this is obviously bothering you more that people are replying against your comments because now it seems to be that u are the only one responding. no one was looking for sympathy, i am pretty sure the bitch said nothing about feeling sorry for the lost stroller, it was about taking something that does not belong to you, no matter where it was left, it was not theirs to take. i could care less about the stroller , its the people out there that are so damn desparate to steal for their children, get a damn job or something, or stop having kids when u can clearly not afford it. I am pretty sure I did say in my first comment that I DID leave the stroller outside of my apt door, which i do know now not to do in the future, but regardless where it was, it was shouldnt have been taken. A grown adult stole from a 2 year old boy, what part of that is right in any way? You know, for someone that lives in the “worst, drug/crime, sleaziest” infested neighbourhood like myself, i can still afford to buy my child nice things, including a new stroller. Seems like you have more of a problem with this than I do!
SM— you cared enough to go onto a website and complain about it, and you’ve defended it. Not to mention too, you’ve done enough backpedaling to run the Tour de France backwards. Seems like you have a significant problem with the fact that you were stupid enough to leave a valuable item in an area where an opportunistic thief would take it. Yep, it was bad, however, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Hey, all I’m trying to do, strollermom, is illustrate the fact that if you leave your shit outside it’ll probably get stolen at some point. (and you left it outside. if it’s not locked up in your apt then it’s outside)
No one has any sense of personal responsibility these days *sigh*
la la la, yes actually the child tax credit does get that high, but it doesn’t meant hat you should go and pop out three kids. It’s not there to help support YOU, it’s for the children. and just so you’re aware as well, the amount you get is based on your income, so not necessairely will it be that high anyway. It really pisses me off to knwo that there are people out there living off of the government, and MY tax paying dollars and sitting home on their asses instead of out busting their behind to take care of their child like they should be. I work my ass off all day long to make sure my son has everythig that he needs and there are people with 6 kids sitting home doing nothing all day and bringing in more than I do. So please, don’t think of it like that.
Also, I think it’s absolutely disgusting that someone would steal something froma child regardless of the fact that the stroller was left unattended. You can get an umbrella stroller for$20 at Walmart. They could have saved a weeks worth of bottles and brought them back to get that money! Disgusting. I feel bad for your child strollermom. I know that a 2 year old is old enough to know how to walk, but their little legs will only carry them so far.
Stroller mom didn’t even make the initial bitch, its obviously posted by a friend for one. For two, every single post on here is repetitive. You’re repeatedly reaming out strollermom, and she’s repeatedly defending herself and her child! She isn’t even denying responsibility, she clearly stated she understands she shouldnt have left it in the hallway. All she’s saying is that it’s pathetic someone could steal a child’s stroller, REGARDLESS of the location. End of story. Yes it shouldn’t have been left in the hallway, she says she knows this now, no need to make personal attacks on someone. Move on to your next bitch, honestly. It’s tiring.