Is this Murphy's Law in action or what?

This Japanese guy who's been 'staying' at my place for nearly three weeks now was supposed to leave on Friday morning, but he's still in my place who knows until when.

He'd told me last week that he'd spend Thursday looking for a new return ticket (cause he wanted to save the one he already has). Not that I want to kick him out, but when I met him on Thursday evening, he said he hadn't got anything done. He'd spend the day mostly sleeping cause he hadn't slept the previous night; he was out having fun.

That's okay with me. That Thursday night we went out together to have some sort of farewell dinner, we walked around the bar area, and then came back to my place to sleep.

On Friday I left early, as usual, for work. But then in the evening I got a phone call from him saying that he'd been stolen all of his important stuff right after buying his new ticket. He said that after buying his ticket (departing for Japan on Saturday morning), he'd gone to some outdoor place to have some coffee. He'd placed MY backpack on the floor, next to his feet, while reading the newspapers and doing some SMS on his mobile phone. And next time he looked, MY backpack was gone!

What was inside my backpack: his Sony Vaio laptop computer, a nice photograph camera, his passport, his new airticket, his old (and still unused) airticket, a lot of cash, his credit card, a lot of traveller's cheques... and oh, his memo pad. Oh, and did I mention... that stolen memo pad was the only place where he'd taken note of the traveller's cheques number?

I thought that was very stupid, it was almost his own fault for carrying all those valuables when he doesn't need them just to purchase an airticket. Why the hell would you need a laptop computer to buy an airticket? And why do you keep only one note of your traveller's cheques, and keep it together with them? Doesn't that beat the purpose of using traveller's cheques? And why do you carry traveller's cheques in the first place if you already have enough cash to pay for the ticket? And on top of that, he just said once that the whole bag was stolen, period.

He never really gave it a thought that it was my bag. For him it was just an old bag. For me, that backpack had some sentimental value cause my ex had picked it for me, and I'd used it for so many years in trips to four continents... so it's not like just an old piece of shit to me. He never said a single word of "I'm sorry I borrowed your stuff and now it's gone.". You're welcome, dude!

Anyway, that Friday he just called me to let me know he'd been stolen, and (oh, surprise!) that he wouldn't come back early cause there was this girl who'd been helping him at the police station and stuff, and he needed to show some appreciation somehow. I'm really surprised he's just been stolen his money, his airticket, and his passport, but he's still in the mood for partying. Whatever.

When I finally saw him on Saturday night, he looked grim, and was telling me he really believed this was some sort of punishment from god. I thought he was kidding, but he assured me he was serious.

Well, that sorrow feeling didn't last very long. I had something to do on Sunday, so I left in the morning. Now it's Monday morning, and I haven't heard from him since then. Obviously, he's deeply troubled and anguished with his sins.