So my lil bro, Michael flew in to visit my sis and I the other day. I had one day off from tattooing and filming so we all agreed we should spend an entire day, just the 3 of us… just the family.
Goin’ to Six Flags Magic Mountain sounded like so much fun! We all hadn’t been there in soooo long and really wanted to ride GOLIATH! So we drove our asses over there, parked our car, and decided in order for us not to have to lug all of our stuff around the park – we could put all our belonging in one place – Karoline (my sis’) purse. I gave her my wallet, my money, sunglasses, camera, all of our fast passes, and tickets, and so did my brother…
First stop: GOLIATH. Man were we stoked – waited in line to be seated in the front of the ride and everything! Karoline put the purse in one of those cubbies that everyone puts there belongings in while your riding the ride… and we were off!!!
You can imagine how bummed we all were when the ride was done and we pulled up to an empty cubby – SOMEONE TOTALLY JACKED OUR PURSE!
Karoline went ballistic! Started yelling and balling – it was so bad that I didn’t think it would be smart to stay in the park long enough to go to guest relations and report it – the ride is less then 2.2 minutes long and in that time someone made the conscious decision to steal someone else’s property.. and our shit was GONE.
It completely ruined our attempt at having “the perfect family day”, and we rushed off to retrieve our car … defeated.
Drove back home and tried our hardest to stay positive…but before our night ended – we got the most surprising phone call –
The police department at Magic Mountain were on the line – not only had they found our belongings (which by the way had been dispersed in trash cans through out the park) – but CAUGHT THE THEIF!!
Out of 12,000 people they were able to dwindle down the suspects to 30, and from then on found the person responsible for stealing our stuff! She was only 15 years old.
Although my siblings and I were stoked on retrieving our personal belongings – we all agreed on our drive back that positive energy promotes more positive energy –
That day started out amazing, turned shitty in 5 minutes, and still managed to have a good time, and actually became way closer to each other…
Without sounding too cheesy… We also agreed that, the girl who stole the purse that day should be held accountable for her decision…
The feeling of being completely violated doesn’t even come close to how shitty the situation would REALLY be, lets say, if my sis was diabetic and we needed the insulin that we put in the purse.. … I mean, people just don’t stop and think sometimes, how much you can REALLY effect others – and in a bad way… truly selfish!
Regardless…we truly hope this situation will help her in the long run… Its a shame that sometimes people have to go through shitty times in order to learn things…
For us, we learned not to put so much value into materialistic things… and that there ARE good people out there who actually care and try their hardest to help others expecting nothing in return… and no matter what… family is everything.
