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TIFU by mistaking a robber for an AC Repair man

So this technically happened a few days ago but there has been a lot of stress between now and then!

So I arrived in Zanzibar this week for a week long holiday for my friends 30th birthday. People have flown in from all around the world, The U.K, Germany, Canada, US, Australia to celebrate and we were all super excited.

On the first evening we had some disagreements with the Air bnb hosts over the number of rooms and one of the pools not being in use, so we were all pretty annoyed. The main reason was a bedroom that was supposed to sleep 4 of us had a faulty AC unit. So we sent lots of messages and went to bed.

When we woke up, the air bnb hosts had arranged for staff to come cook us breakfast, so there were locals from the island there who we had not previously met before. One of them came round and was very friendly and cheerful, was wiping down the sun lounges, asked us how we wanted our eggs, even played the ukulele, basically the opposite of incognito. We all assumed he was hired by the air bnb hosts so thought nothing of it. So I willingly watched him and allowed him to enter the property.

This man then went in to the room with the broken AC and was fiddling with the remote. But he encouraged the others to head to breakfast, again we all thought he worked here. When we get back from breakfast the man is gone and we find that over $3000 had been stolen, with myself losing the most with $1000.

When we speak to the air bnb hosts and staff, they said they did not know that man and said he came to the property saying he was our friend so they let him in. We were all furious and understandably upset.

Anyway we have reported it to the police but they are now ignoring us and not giving us a crime reference number. I don’t have a receipt for my cash for insurance purposes and I’m currently sitting alone in the same air bnb while everyone is out drinking and enjoying themselves because I cannot afford to eat. Cannot wait to go home.

TL;DR - while on holiday in Zanzibar a man came to rob us and I let them enter the property mistaking him for an AC repairman while he stole all our money.

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