i'm so sorry to hear about this!! that's so terrible. i hope this girl gets caught and you get your bags back!!
and i can relate to what is going through your mind right now, you think "if only i hadn't left my bag there" , "how could this happen to me", etc. don't blame yourself so much though, sometimes even when u are the most careful and vigilant things still happen. last year my laptop was stolen out of my office (this was at a university), and i had only left it there for FIVE minutes (and it had a laptop LOCK on it). but it got stolen anyway. Never got it back, but was able to recover some $$ from insurance claim. So yeah, as previous poster said, if you have renters/homeowner's insurance I'd definitely look into seeing if you're covered under that. To file a claim you will need a copy of the poice report, provide estimate on how much was stolen, etc.
and about the cops finding the thief.. i relaly hope they catch her and u get your stuff back....but to be quite honest the cops certainly aren't going to do any dusting for fingerprints or anything like that in trying to find her. Sorry if this is discouraging, but cops usually aren't that helpful in these cases because the sad fact is there are just sooooo many thefts, and plus they're probably more concerned with trying to catch murders/rapists etc. My laptop that was stolen was $2000 and right after it happened the cops just flat out told me there was nothing they can do but put in a report. So if the cops don't end up finding her and you really want to go after this chick you'd probably have to hire a PI or something (i've heard of ppl doing this after they got scammed out of $$ and cops weren't of much help).
and i can relate to what is going through your mind right now, you think "if only i hadn't left my bag there" , "how could this happen to me", etc. don't blame yourself so much though, sometimes even when u are the most careful and vigilant things still happen. last year my laptop was stolen out of my office (this was at a university), and i had only left it there for FIVE minutes (and it had a laptop LOCK on it). but it got stolen anyway. Never got it back, but was able to recover some $$ from insurance claim. So yeah, as previous poster said, if you have renters/homeowner's insurance I'd definitely look into seeing if you're covered under that. To file a claim you will need a copy of the poice report, provide estimate on how much was stolen, etc.
and about the cops finding the thief.. i relaly hope they catch her and u get your stuff back....but to be quite honest the cops certainly aren't going to do any dusting for fingerprints or anything like that in trying to find her. Sorry if this is discouraging, but cops usually aren't that helpful in these cases because the sad fact is there are just sooooo many thefts, and plus they're probably more concerned with trying to catch murders/rapists etc. My laptop that was stolen was $2000 and right after it happened the cops just flat out told me there was nothing they can do but put in a report. So if the cops don't end up finding her and you really want to go after this chick you'd probably have to hire a PI or something (i've heard of ppl doing this after they got scammed out of $$ and cops weren't of much help).