If you ever suffered STEALING! (read from post 88)

I vented about this in a post not too long ago...

I HATE when people disrespect your village and the things in it. I am always VERY cautious about who I let in, and because (before we got her her own cartridge) I shared my main village, CRIBBET, with my 7yo daughter. Now...my daughter always abided by the things I asked (IE: No running, no going into my villagers home and taking stuff, selling her stuff, moving her stuff around, etc) and when she discovered the whole amazing experience of having others in your town, unbeknownst to me she was having her 2 cousins (whom are nice and all, theyre 9 and 6..but they don't play ACNL like she and I do...and theyre towns ((even tho they've had thm for well over a year..were BARON cause they DONT PLAY)) and they don't listen...like even when they come to our REAL home IRL, and are asked not to touch something...they do. ALWAYS.) come over into our village as well as allowing random "friends" shed meet on the island (playing as my MAYOR). She tell them the "rules" and her being the sweet lil girl she is, especially when it came to her cousins, she thought theyd respect our wishes.
Well....lemme just say...ALL my perfect fruit tr s were robbed and chopped, ALL my hybrids were trampled, things were stolen, and things were taken from my home!!! I was FURIOUS, and she was SO HORRIFIED. she cried for over an hour, apologizing profusely and I felt so bad...she just couldn't like understand WHY this was done. I had to explain to her that not everyone loves and respects the game like we do....and when I said her cousins couldn't come to the village anymore she got a lil upset..but I explained it as :Imagine if youd painted a picture...and you painted it a lil bit everyday for over a year...and then I let Aunt Dana (my sister) come over and paint all over your painting...that would upset you no?" and I think that analogy made her understand better...and they haven't come back since.

Also I had an incident where I had made the mistake of going to the Southern Islands and selecting "world wide".....and I met these german kids...and they said they were 28...and I was like "Ok" I don't allow actual KIDS into my village because lets be honest they just don't play like WE DO (and when I say kids I mean anyone like 15 and under...)
anyways, the 3 of us toured for like an hour...and they spoke some English and it was nice. one of them asked me if I had Gracie Grace and I did so I agreed to let them come and use it. (It NEVER OCCURRED TO ME TO CHARGE THEM!!) they said theyd give me 1mil bells so I'm like "omg ok yea!" and so I have them come to CRIBBET....

To this day it makes me so mad. They came in and went ballistic. I feel like theyd planned it. One kept me busy and the other ran around stealing, ruining ALL MY FLOWERS, chopping down ALL MY TREES, and planted a ton of pitfalls. The one wreaking havoc said something in German and it mustve been like a code word of sorts cause suddenly they both left..and because the whole time I had been in Main Street I had NO IDEA what had happened and when I saw it I was so upset. I felt like SUCH A MORON....and didn't let ANYONE into my village for MONTHS....

Yes, A LOTTA PEOPLE say "oh its just a game" and all of that...call me pathetic, a loser, or whatever but for ME...MY village is my escape...MY sanctuary. And I guess some people just don't care or understand that...and so they do mean stuff. Also I think that some of the people that behave that way are the same type of people who come to te Islands to bell beg, or try and extort people for bells...and most liklely theyre KIDS...like LITTLE Kids, and don't have the type of love,time, and devotion put into the game that we have and do.

IMO this is discrimination? Some kids can be very mature, more than adults sometimes. But this is slightly on you for not knowing what to do as a host. If even ONE person walks off screen, shut off wifi.
 
I've been stolen from before, I was allowing someone to use the space outside my station to stash items they wanted to keep while they restarted their town and this girl came over uninvited, asked her politely to leave and she did when I explained it was a bad time, not that long later a guy comes into my town, he disappears off my screen and I wanted to help this person with their stuff asap so I just let him head off to do his own thing, I'd had him over before and he was no trouble but probably because my town was new and there wasn't anything to take, I was just focused on making sure none of the girl's stuff disappeared while she was sorting her town out.
He leaves, says he's got to go eat and do something else, leaves some stuff dotted around my town, some clothes, a few items, which he said were for me but at the same time some of them, that I didn't even know about until later, were hidden behind my residents houses and pwps which annoyed me slightly since I like my town clean, he leaves, girl comes back to collect her stuff then leaves, I go around my town to water my flowers while I had some free time, head near my house, notice 4-6 of my gold roses are gone from my roses patch, head onto the beach, notice most of my blue roses are gone too, went through every single flower patch I had since I had them organised, he'd taken blue roses, some blue violets, purple tulips which I didn't even have many of to begin with, a few purple roses and some purple pansies.
I try to remember what his name and town name was so I could figure out which of the friend cards to remove. He then comes back, drops about 16 sweets onto the floor and says "For you", I politely say "Can I have my flowers back please?" And was about to say "I won't be mad that you took them if you give them back" but he had no response to my first message and must've switched his DS off or something cause I got an error message, I figured out which friend card was his and immediately removed him so he couldn't come back and steal my flowers again.
I managed to find his account on here but didn't want to leave a negative feedback in case he retaliates and leaves one on my account, which I'd hate since all my interactions with people on this site up until then had been perfectly pleasant and I'd hate for one bad review because of something he did ruin my chances of some members interacting with me since I've seen quite a few saying "Negative feedback = no trades/visits" etc, stuff along those lines, I would've thought he'd know better since he's been on this site for quite a while and must surely know how to respect other peoples towns. I noted down his name/town name/bell tree name/friend code on my laptop so if I ever come across him again trying to make friends with me to visit then I'll know to stay away and tell him no way.
He honestly ruined the trust I had when it came to letting people in my town, I now prefer to visit people and not have visitors, but if someone does visit then I make sure to tell them not to touch my flowers, and if they want something like fruit, then all they have to do is just ask for it instead of taking, especially since some people return the favour like basket of perfect cherries for a basket of perfect native fruit from their town, I even had someone offer to give me a hybrid flower, while I was visiting them, cause it's the only one I didn't have and he wanted to see if it'd give me a better chance at breeding more and since he was nice seemed trustworthy I allowed him to visit my town in return and it paid off, he really respected my town, didn't touch any flowers, didn't run etc and he just had a nice time talking to my villagers and checking out what was in my town. He helped me trust people a bit more but I still make sure to tell people not to touch the flowers etc, and if they go silent and disappear from my screen I ask them where they are so I know to check any flowers in that area, it's just a shame that one negative interaction came about simply because he was a ideal visitor last time and didn't touch anything, and now that's chipped away some of the trust I have when it comes to allowing people to visit. I've probably repeated myself at some point but I tend to ramble on tbh, and I did get some more blue roses, I asked if anyone would sell me some in the re-tail section and this lovely girl offered to give me some for nothing and ended up giving me a few too many, bless her heart though she was really sweet.
 
I rarely have visitors so I have not been stolen from but with my luck it'll happen eventually

Hopefully it doesn't happen to you, it's honestly ridiculous that some people are so disrespectful that they just take stuff, especially when/if they've seen how much effort you've put into your town/towns, only for them to mess it up by taking things that aren't theirs to take, or if they trample flowers etc.
 
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