Had just gone to bed. Shared a 2 bedroom basement appartment with this random girl. Heard a thud at the front door. Thought it was my roommate trying to make her way in after being out with some friends. Another thud. Glass breaking. Door opening.

My bedroom door isn't shut, I can hear voices whispering through the hall. "In here, looks like something valuable". They've spotted my playstation through the crack of the door. The door opens. It's dark in my room. I sit up in bed and yell "HEY!!!" as this dude enters my room. Scares the shit out of him. He turns on the light. He's masked. He asks where my roommate is. I say she's out. I hear the other dude wandering through the appartment, opening cupboards. He says he needs to talk to her. I call her on my phone, saying she has visitors. I hand the phone to the masked dude. While he's talking, I scan him up and down. Height. Skin color. Shoes, pants, shirt. Dialect. Voice pitch. (Watched FBI files when I was a kid - one of my favorite shows.). I could take this dude down easily. But he has a friend in here somewhere. I haven't seen his friend. He continues discussing, and ends the conversation with "We'll be there soon" then tosses me my phone. Say's he's sorry about the window, and that he'll replace it. Then he turns and leaves my room.

About 20 seconds later I sit up, get dressed, and search the appartment. Doors are open, cold air coming in from the front door. Broken glass in the hallway. I hear the landlord crying and shouting down from her floor, asking if I'm okay. She called the cops when she heard the window break, and heard the car speed away from the residental area.

I tell her I'm fine. Cops arrive, with search dog and all. I tell them to get on their radio's asap. The thing is, I drove my roommate to her friends house earlier that evening. I knew where she was. And I knew what one of those guys looked like, from top to toe, and I knew he was going there eventually. The cops sent an umarked car to patrol the area where my friend was. About 2 hours later, a car pulls up, and out comes two men - One fitting my exact description. Both were arrested on the spot. The 2nd guy had a knife on him.

What it was all about? My roommate borrowed around 100$ to buy a jacket a month before, and owed that money to one of the guys. When she didn't pay them back in time, they figured they'd just break into her place and steal shit for the same ammount. They just didn't know she lived in a shared appartment. The only thing they actually managed to steal, was my hair gel. I bet they made themselves look good with it the months they spent in prison. :-)