THIEVERY!

I posted earlier about my iPod getting stolen from my room - or more specifically from my bed while I was asleep listening to it. Apparently this was not isolated incident. Apparently it was not isolated to my room or even my floor or even that day for that matter. So far the following has been stolen from my room since I've been there (outside of the iPod none of this is mine)

• 8GB iPod Touch
• $400 windows mobile phone
• $400 cash
• $50 cash

This stuff was stolen from four different people on three different nights. After $450 cash was stolen in one night the hostel changed the lock on our door. I learned from a friend who has also been here for awhile (who also got robbed of his credit card and some cash from a different room on a different floor along with another guy in the room) that some people decide to eat the $20 key deposit and keep the room key when they check out because it gives them easy access to 8 peoples stuff seven nights a week. The key gives them access to the entire floor through the elevators (the elevators only let you go to the floor which your key corresponds to) which can in turn give them access to more rooms than they have keys for. Some very devious people have taken to damaging the locks to make the doors challenging to close. These leads to situation where sometimes people leave the room and door open because they don't check to make sure the door actually closed. My rooms door was like this for the first week but it's since been fixed (and since been damaged again last night). As a result of this nonsense I keep everything except my clothes, toiletries and food under lock and key all the time. I also have started warning people to not leave out anything they care about it.

In addition to all this I've started monitoring the fire doors. People have been known to prop open the fire doors on floors when they can because this gives them access to that floor from street level without having to pass any cameras on the third or entrance floor.

I still enjoy the hostel I am staying at but I am becoming increasingly paranoid anytime someone comes in or out of my room particularly at night.

In happier news. Here is a picture of my hotel in Fiji and a picture of me pretending to be a pilot or an astronaut or something.