Amusing Routing and Well Behaved Burglars

[Dellena]

So my sim family lives on one of the island so they have to boat to the mainland.  Twice now, I've had a burglar show up.  He sets off the alarm, the police comes on a boat, they scuffle and the policeman wins.  Here's where it's funny.  The policeman escorts the burglar to the shoreline where the burglar (in cuffs) hops in a boat, alone, and goes to the mainland where the cop car is located.  The policeman follows in his own boat and after securing the burglar at his car, he boats back to the house to check on things.  So I don't know if he's the most honorable burglar ever, or the most stupid! LOL

[Zyffyr]

Quite amusing.

If you want a logical reason for it -

The town is small, and by that point the cop already knows who the thief is... So their options are
1)Play nice.
2)Run away, get picked up again and have even worse charges added.
3)Leave town forever.

Since they aren't going to get more than one night in jail, their smart move is #1.

[Turoskel]

I just experienced this silliness, my sims are living on Cay to the City, it's a fair distance from the main islands one of them is in law enforcement and actually self teleports to the carpool in the mornings then takes hours to boat home at night.

Well the alarm went off waking both sims and they go down to deal with the burglar, one being a police officer the other brave, then all three just stand about for what seems like hours waiting for the cop to show up in his speedboat.

He finally arrives and goes and stands directly behind the burglar for about an hour then bleats he can't get to him  so he then decides to go swim in the pool instead while my police woman deals with the burglar followed by her husband just to be sure.

The cop then arrests the burglar and they go off and my sims go back to bed, quite a while later I go to save my game and it tells me I'm being burgled, but that was hours ago 

Sure enough the cop has left the burglar outside the Alto's house and is heading back to check my home over, so in all it's taken almost half a day to deal with one burglar that my sims were quite capable of doing on their own 

I shall be selling the alarm now rather than do this again.

[Wai]

Oh dear!, Sorry I am sure that for you that was frustrating, but, oh, it is just so funny!  Don't you just love those sims. 

[Angélique]

I agree with you, Sims 3 and it's predecessors Sims 1 and 2 are major sources of laughter!  I always keep a small pack of paperhankies close by so I can wipe away those tears of joy! In Island Paradise, the name of that big black and scarylooking seamonster Kraken is really funny, because "kraken" is a commonly used word in the swedish language, and it means a small harmless and pitiful creature, someone who's in a bad state, someone to feel sorry for. "Ååh, den stackars lille kraken!" means exactly the same as "OOh, that poor little thing!" And do you know what the Sims 3 stuffpack Fast lane is titled in Norway? Full fart! "Fart" is a norwegian and swedish word, and it means "speed". "Full fart" is the same as highest possible speed. Comparing languages can be very funny sometimes!

[Wai]

Talk about lost in translation!

The Kraken are legendary sea monsters of giant proportions said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland.  This fact made me smile when you explained what the word means in Swedish!

They are also the subject of a very good book by John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes.

[Aspen]

I started a new game where the challenge is to live off my resort earnings, so I bought a cheap barge close to the resort and have been fixing up the place slowly but surely. I got a LTW to buy something for $100. So my barge consists of a bed and now, one $100 chair. That night a burgular steals my chair- I was so up in arms, my sim was getting his pants on, ready to chase him down and all that- I just cancelled the action and put him to bed while I /facepalm. This sim had the lucky trait, too, so think about that next time you're picking traits