Furious at myself, and furious at the prick who took advantage of us.

So heres the story, tl;dr at the bottom.

As a very few of you know, we had a house guest about... oh.... a month ago? His name is Fuzzie, or rather thats his fandom name. His real name is Nicolas Umphry. Yeah thats right, Im pissed off enough to use his REAL name too. Nick lives in the Vancouver area. He was introduced to us by a friend. We met him a couple of times, and he seemed like a nice enough guy. He then moved to Vancouver for medical treatment, rooming with another fur there and their room mates. Well a month ago, during FC, his fur friend was gone to con, and in that time, his friends roomies suddenly kicked him out or something, he didnt go into details, but he needed a place to stay for a couple of days and we, being who we are, told him we couldn't offer much besides a couch but so long as he paid for food, he could stay until monday (he had arrived thursday night).

He shows up, says he wont get payed until monday, and we were fine with that, and we make him as comfortable as we can. Monday comes around, he starts making calls to social services... Suddenly doesn't know when he's going to get paid, is arguing with social services. Were not to pleased about it, but we know how social services can be, so we let it slide.

During his stay we fed him, made him as comfortable as we could for sleeping on a loveseat, let him play our games and watch tv, ect. Every day I had to hound on him to make him call back social services again and fight with them to get his money from them. I hate nagging, but it was the only way to get him to do it, and we were starting to get desperate on our food stores. Our food is very very carefully budgeted out for a month for just the two of us. Often we will be down to nothing but ramen for the last week and a half of a month, but we continued to feed him. About the fourth day of his stay though, we started to see a bit of an unsavory side to Nick, one we didnt know about. He came home from the doctors office with a reflex hammer he had stolen. When asked why he said "I pay taxes, I pay their salary, if I want a 'dorito hammer' then im going to take myself a dorito hammer." I was a little not pleased about that, but I didnt say too much. (btw when he did leave he never took it with him so weve got a random reflex hammer in our house. Maybe Ill give it to my neices or something) Then, the next night he comes home with some cake thing from Safeway. We asked him how he had gotten that, since he still had no money. He apparently conned it/stole it from Safeway by taking up two cakes and saying "My wife came in here earlier and bought this one, but she ment to get this one, can I just swap them" or something like that. I was most unhappy with this story, but I did eat the offered cake.. I really wish I hadnt, in fact the idea that I did makes me feel sick and ashamed at myself. But regardless, on with the story.

So on about his fith day, he apparently had some friend or something who had two 'busted' laptops that she was going to throw away and had offered them to Nick. If he could fix them, he could have them, she was just going to get a new one. Nick gets them, and said if Todd could get them both to work, Todd could have one of them. Awesome. The first one, Todd had fixed in like two hours. It was just a corrupted windows install. The other one was a bit more complicated in the form of a bios password on it, and he was going to have to call Dell to get it. But Todd's ultimate goal was to at least give Nick a working laptop before he left, which he had done.

Well thats about when the fun started. I guess Nick decided that he had to have the best of everything, even if it wasnt his. Todd's brother, Mike, had a laptop that his daughter stupidly ruined (She spilled a glass of water on it, patted it dry with a towel, then continued to play SL on it until it suddenly wasnt working anymore, and then called us in a panic. Yeah, her net addiction is THAT bad, but I wont go into that). Mike had given us his busted laptop in the hopes that we could somehow revive it from the grave. Todd had opened it and had been trying to narrow which part of it had actulay fried due to being used while soaked (turned out to be the motherboard). Well while Todd and I were sleeping, he apparently had decided that he could make use of the parts from said laptop for himself. Next day, Todd goes to start working on the laptop with the bios password (he originally tried to see if he could jump the powersupply to bypass the bios lock like you could with the earlier models) only to find that... the wrong hardrive was in the laptop, and Mike computer's hardrive was wrong too. Confronting Nick, he was like "Oh well, I didnt think you would notice, youve got so many laptop hardrives." We were like, "Um no.. we have this one, and MIKES hardrive, that isnt ours." Now if it had just been the bios locked laptop, sure. I mean the two of those HAD been given to him. And if he wanted the best of those two we could understand, but trying to be sneaky and change out a laptop drive that wasnt his, and wasnt even ours? Todd nearly threw him out there, but I calmed him down, and we went on with things. After another week of yelling at Dell we finaly got the bioslock password (btw, if your laptop is out of warentee, and you get a bioslock on your dell computer, their going to try and charge you $50 to unlock it. Todd managed to get around it as posing as a computer repair store manager working on a clients computer, but not without a lot of headache that I wont get into).

Nick by this time had finally conned Social Services into reimbursing his bus ticket down here, one to go back to van, and money and reservation at a hotel near the hospital in van. He paid us $60 for the week and a half he had already stayed, and took us out to lunch. Only to inform us at lunch that he needed to stay nearly another week until he could leave. Todd and I were not pleased, but we bit our tongue.

That night, he decided he wanted to get high. Todd partakes in smoking some green every once in a while, very very rarely, and only outside so it doesnt agrivate my asthma. when Todd's in a lot of pain because of his disability. On average about once every three or four months. he didnt have any at the time, except for about six roaches that he had been saving for one of those times in which he just needed it. Nick said if he used his roaches, he would replace what he used and he called up a mutal friend of ours who sells, and bought a bunch of green from them and gave him a small nugget to cover what he smoked in his roaches. That night he used up four of our six roaches. Well... For the rest of that week I dont think Nick stopped smoking. Todd only partook that first night, he offered a couple of other times, but Todd and doesnt do it that often, and declined. Well WHILE Nick was high, he started to eat. And he didnt ask if he could eat certain things.. he just started to... browse. When we found something missing (Like almost all of Todd's cookies that we keep up in the cubbord so he can have a treat now and then or for if his blood sugar gets too low, as Todd's hypoglycemic) We chewed him out and told Nick to ask first next time. Did he? No not really. It got to the point where we didnt trust him in the house alone, for fear of running out of food, and for fear he was going to try and make off with something. But we just kept telling ourselves he was just there a few more days....

Well two days before he was to leave, he apparently ran out of the thirty something bucks of green he had bought, and then came to me, asking if he could have what little green Todd had. I was like "Um, no, he's saving that" Which we were. He was like, okay thats fine. But frankly, at that point, I didnt trust him. ANd that night I moved Todd's stash into our bedroom. The next day, a pair of friends of ours that we hadn't seen in over a year came into town. We hadn't seen them since Tatsu had been in a horrific car accident and had lost the lower half of his calf, and was now wearing a prosthetic. They were only in town for the day over at Mikes place, and fuck if we were going to miss seeing them after so long. So we went over for two hours, had a nice, if small, visit and then came home. The next day Nick left, and we thought we could let things go back to normal.

Two days later, Todd goes to his stash, to find that the small nugget of green he had given us to replace what he had used from his roaches was gone. Needless to say Todd was furious. We had three bucks on us, as we called our friend for at least a single doobie, who when she found out that Nick stole the last of Todd's green was furious, came over with ten bucks worth of green, told us just to pay her back when we could. Thats was sweet of her, and we were grateful beyond belief.

Well we kept finding little things here or there that were gone after he left, mostly food. Which hurt us bad when it came to getting groceries this month, but thanks to a dear friend were going to be okay in that department for the moment.

Now, aside from the laptop that Mike had here for us to fix, we also had our Nieces that needed a new powersupply. Easy fix, just needed fifty bucks for the new power supply. Not too hard. Mind you, we had kept her laptop, in its carry case, out of the way while Nick was here, didnt even have it out except for the one day Todd took it over to Doc's to make sure that it was just the power supply that needed replacing and then came home and put it back. Neice gave us the money last night for the new power supply and Todd went to Doc's today to buy it. When he gets there... it wont turn on. Tries to open the CD drive... and it practically falls out because its not secured. This is odd, because Todd didn't open this laptop, he knew what was wrong, it just needed a new power supply. He investigates further, opens the hard drive plate (which wasn't even fully secured) And the hard drive is completely gone. Now Todd's furious, comes home, slams the door, grabs his screwdriver, and opens it up. Finds out that the little prick opened up Jen's laptop to try and harvest it for parts. The wireless card inside has been ripped up in a poor attempt to dislodge it, and theres fingerprints all over the video card from where he tried to get it out and couldn't. The ram hadn't been touched but thats most likely because it was old, crappy ram that he wouldn't have wanted anyway. The case is cracked because the retard didn't know how to open it right, and the connections for the power supply to the motherboard and just about everything else had been unplugged. Todd is furious, and I am furious. Keep in mind. Jen is a single mother, her husband left her with a newborn to raise because he's a jackass. She is living with her parents because she cant afford to live on her own. She barely could afford the fifty for the new power supply, let alone everything else thats now going to have to be replaced. And the kicker? Nick KNOWS Jen is a single mother, didn't seem to stop him from ripping her off huh? Im furious at myself for being so trusting. As one friend put it "You guys get ripped off by almost everyone who stays with you huh". Im tired of it, im done. Im no longer opening my door to the strays that wander through. Im sorry. I cant keep being a charitable and giving person, when all I get is shit thrown in my face. There are a few people I will always keep an open door for, but no more will I let in everyone in with a benefit of the doubt.


SO! TL;DR A one, Nicholas Umphry, aka Fuzzie, from the Vancouver BC area. stole from us, our neice, and attempted to steal from our brother. If you see him, punch him in the face for me. =)