Ok so I always say “I’m cursed with bad luck” as a lot of Irish people do, we say things like “Luck of the Irish my ass” and one time I said that to my friend (that’s you Dobsy) he told me I’m too dramatic!!!!
So a few days later I got a call from a guy interested in buying it, he said my little sister had the same one and he accidently spilt a cup of tea (cause all us Irish drink nothing but tea, and obviously Alcohol) his sister was devastated and he needed to replace it and he saw my add in the paper. I advertised it for €280 and he asked me if I would let it go for €250 cause that was all he had.
I felt sorry for the guy and he seemed so nice, chatty and basically genuine! I saved his number, we arranged to meet to give him the netbook and so on, we talked for a bit he told me he won some money on the horses over the weekend!!! So off he went and off I went happy as Larry the two of us, mind you I was soon to find out that he was a whole lot happier than me.
I went and did some shopping bought a few things for me and my girls, and I lodged the remainder of the money in my account, I then went to Aldi, a local supermarket to do some groceries, when I just paid at the till I received a phone call from Mary the manager of the Credit Union where my account was, the money two €50 notes I had Lodged were counterfeit!
I was mortified, I immediately went back and spoke to the manager and explained what had happened, in all fairness to her she did not ring the police and gave me back the money, she did however urge me to go and make a statement and let them know what had happened, I was kind of apprehensive because I had some money myself and I did know what I had spent and where, I was so embarrassed that I would be asked to go and backtrack to the shops I had bought stuff in, but after much consideration I went to my local Gardai Station, made my statement and that was that.
A few days later a detective from the the Garda Station in the city called me, he would be handling the case as it happened in the city, I spoke to him and heard no more, so I presumed that they would basically do sweet fuck all about it as that is what happened in the past dealings I have had with the police!
So weeks n weeks went by and I heard nothing, I kept saying to myself “I knew it, they wouldn’t do anything” but low and behold was I wrong.
Late on Tuesday night as I was making dinner for my kids there was a knock on the door, which is unusual cause no one really calls around to our house uninvited. When I opened the door there was a man and woman, the Man flashed his police badge and said I’m Detective O’Donoghue from Anglesea Street Station in Cork, I said to myself “Fuck what did I do now”
I invited them in, they followed me through to the Kitchen, he said “ We got your laptop back we caught the guy that u sold it to, We managed to track him down using the CCTV footage from the bus station where u met him” I was so delighted! I felt wow this guy is amazing he is a good and honest police officer( which are definitely hard to come by in Ireland, believe me)
We talked for a while I had to sign some papers stating that I identified the netbook as the one he had stolen from me (and feeling oh so important lol), they told how he admitted it straight away and was very apologetic, how he had sold the netbook to someone else so he was made to go and retrieve it with the police, He will now go to court and face a few charges, Counterfeit money, theft and so on.
My faith in the An Garda Siochana (we don’t say police, we say the guards really) has been restored.
And it’s safe to say this time I definitely got lucky!
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