Having been on the receiving end of burglary (on about 5 occasions, with various degrees of theft involved), I would agree about one thing: you DO wish for them to die, and to die in horrible, horrible ways... and also seriously consider taking active participation in it. I can now live very easily with the feeling of invasion (add locks here and there...), and the loss of property (after all, what is REALLY important, such as photos or small souvernirs, is often not stolen), but what I find difficult to live with still to this day is the knowledge that 1) they got away with it 2) they profited from it 3) they are laughing about it (although the one laughing may be the drug dealer who actually got the profit, but that's the same). My only consollation: at least, while my house/flat was burglared (with nothing gone that the insurrance didn't replace), it meant that a little old lady's was not. There a positive note in everything!