Robbed during a coke deal. Partner and I lost 30 K in about 15 seconds.
Had dealt with these dudes for several years, then out of the blue, during an exchange a fucking van comes wailing up and slams on the brakes. Out hop 5 or 6 dudes. All of them carrying what appeared to be 9mm pistols and one had an assault rifle. One I know was a Beretta.....it was up REAL close to my head, so I got a good look.....LOL.
One dude was sporting either an AK-47 or a knockoff like a semiautomatic SKS. All I saw was banana clip and wooden butt stock and foregrip.
Motherfuckers were wearing bandanas......like I dont know who the fuck it is you asses.
Karma's a bitch though. Never even got a chance to retaliate. It was like a movie about curses. The whole group eventually either lost their lives from gangland style shootings/stabbings or their lives ended up falling apart shortly after.
They had the drop on us though that day, nothing we could have done. It was actually a pretty smooth job. And I had a feeling something was up when they changed the meet spot at the last minute, to where we were pinned in by this van. We weren't packing either. Stopped packing for meetings with them a year earlier. That is what saved our lives though. They had the drop so good, had we tried pulling heat if we had it.....we would have been blasted, no doubt about it. So, we had to let them take it.
Sucked, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to live another day. 30 K aint' worth dying over. To some people, maybe. Not me.
I have also been burglarized. The fuckers stole a couple pounds, and some cash. Found out who it was, kidnapped the one of the fuckers from his parents house where he was hiding out. Beat the shit outta him, and got a name. Drove back by his parents, and rolled the fucker out my roommates van as we went by. He had given the stolen weed to his brother who took it out of town. By the time we tracked everything all down, and got it all sorted, the cops got involved. Got a phone call from a constable, telling me they knew everything that was going on, that I had taken this punk and kidnapped him. They knew the motives behind everything and told me and my roommate to let it go, or they will investigate further....otherwise they will leave it alone.
Basically, they have no proof, the statement of a punk, admitted theif who was most likely too afraid to actually say....those guys did it, I want to press charges, and I will stand up in court.
All in all, over the years, I would say I have lost nearly 50 K due to robberies, burglaries.
EDIT: Getting raided by the cops several years later might count too. Lost about 45-50 K there. Another time the cops got all my grow equipment, lost about 16-18 K that day.
Fuck me.