<p>Have you ever had anything stolen while in college? Have you ever had anything stolen on your way to or from college (ie. clothing or items missing from checked bags)? is this sort of thing common?</p>
<p>No and no and knock on wood.
I haven’t had anything stolen while in college and I’ve been in college for quite a bit of time.</p>
<p>No, no and no. Also knock on wood. :)</p>
<p>Pretty much everyone knows that it sucks to have stuff stolen and abides by the golden rule. Just make sure you leave your doors and windows closed and locked when you’re not there.</p>
<p>There were thefts at my school a few years ago. People left their dorm room doors unlocked during Thanksgiving break and some kid went in and stole electronics. If you and your roommate take the bare minimum precautions, you will be fine.</p>
<p>Thefts in dorms are rare but occur here and there. Get a laptop lock and keep your cash stashed away in a suitcase or something.</p>
<p>No, no, and it depends on how you define “common”, but I would say yes.</p>
<p>to keep a laptop safe (if you bring one) I highly recommend getting Lojack software. Or a laptop lock</p>
<p>Never got anything</p>
<p>But I do read about an unattended bag gets taken once in a while in the school paper</p>
<p>I got to a 30,000 + school</p>
<p>Unattended theft is more common at my school, but its also a city school open to the public.</p>
<p>It was more common in the dorms.</p>
<p>It’s not wise to keep your door unlocked even if you’re just going to the bathroom for a minute. ANYTHING can happen during those 2 or 3 minutes – like a stolen laptop (which was common).</p>
<p>Sometimes, it’s not even the people in your dorm stealing stuff. It could be their visitors.</p>
<p>Never had any theft personally but yeah take the precautions and ull be fine</p>
<p>Never keep cash in your dorm or in your wallet,</p>
<p>Minimize your loss</p>
<p>Never had anything stolen from me, but I remember a year or two ago there were several (as in, a couple hundred) textbooks reported stolen from students studying in the library in about a two-week period. This guy would wait in one of the areas with rows of tables where you can see any table, and if someone ran to the water fountain or to the bathroom “for just a second”, he would steal their books that were out on the table. Sold them online and made a lot of money. The campus police set up a sting in the library and caught him red handed, found over 80 stolen books in his dorm room, checked his bank accounts, and he was convicted easily.</p>
<p>^ Omg. That is pretty disgusting. Last time I am going to leave my books to go get a DRINK!</p>
<p>Nope. My college was small (don’t know about the new one I will be attending) and nobody ever stole or if something was stolen it was at a party with not people just from our college.</p>
<p>I’ve left my computer hanging around, my door open and etc.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t do this at necessarily any school though.</p>
<p>Definitely be careful with your laptop in the library. Son’s friend returned from her winter break with a nice new laptop. She brought it to the library, left her seat to get something across the room, and when she came back, her new laptop was gone.</p>
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<p>I guarantee it happens way more often than is reported in the paper at a school that size. Large colleges are ripe for crimes of opportunity like the ones commited by the guy Cards4Life talked about. No one pays attention to which bag or bicycle someone grabs as they walk by.</p>
<p>Wow! Most of you have been very lucky so far. When I was in college, several girls on my dorm floor kept getting money stolen out of our purses. The R.A. wouldn’t do anything so I called the city police. The officer suggested I tell all the girls on my floor that we were to come down to the police station for lie detector tests on a certain day. He said that would be enough to get the guilty party to confess, and sure enough, he was right. She didn’t want to take the test (no real tests were scheduled) and her dad paid everyone back. It turns out she was stealing from her sorority sisters, too, so we solved two crime sprees. I hear this girl is now a dentist somewhere in MN or ND. </p>
<p>A couple years later, I was missing a very expensive pair of jeans (white stitching and only sold at one store). I ran into a sorority sister I hadn’t seen in a while and she was acting really nervous. She went into her classroom across the hall from me. I decided to leave class early so I could catch her on the way out. She was wearing the jeans, which had faded over the 5 months they’d been missing. She paid me for them on the spot, but later called to say they had been a gift from her aunt.</p>
<p>My son had a fan stolen last year. We were packing up his dorm room and someone actually returned it, as we found it in the hallway, just outside his door on the last day.</p>