I matched with a really sweet man on Tinder and our relationship ended in court after I discovered the kind of person he really was
Alisha moved to the Sunshine Coast and met a man just two days later, and though he failed to impress, she decided to give him a chance. She said 'on paper' the man 'seemed really sweet' and that he had told her he was 'between jobs', which she deciphered to mean 'unemployed'. 'We're dating for a month or so and stupidly I leave him alone in my apartment with my car while I went to work,' Alisha said. The FIFO worker said she was meant to be at the mines for a week, when alarm bells rang about her new man. 'His Facebook starts getting a little suspicious,' Alisha said. 'It starts attracting the attention of this questionable woman who was giving me Spidey senses.' Alisha noticed the pair were liking each other’s Facebook posts relentlessly before she received a message request from the woman. 'She ends up sending me the entire chat,' Alisha said. Alisha found out her new boyfriend had picked up his other girlfriend in her car and taken her back to her place for some 'glass pipe action' and 'extracurricular activities'. Alisha said she left work early and organised a flight back home, before visiting him at his new workplace and reclaiming her car. She returned to her house and began to pack his belongings. 'It was then that I find a whole bag of my jewellery in his backpack,' Alisha explained. 'He was obviously planning to steal it because cheating wasn't enough.' 'I dump all his s*** out the front of my complex and send him a photo telling him to come and get his crap.' The shocked man asked her why she was doing that to him, but she was sick of his texts so she blocked him. 'This is where the story should have ended,' Alisha said. She decided to unblock him to let him explain himself and he told her that he was a 'troubled soul' who was trying to get clean and kick his meth addiction. Alisha forgave him, and he even convinced her to move in at a higher rent which he didn't help pay.
Suspicious Facebook clues lead to discovery of a second girlfriend
Alisha said 'Her Facebook starts getting a little suspicious' and 'It starts attracting the attention of this questionable woman who was giving me Spidey senses.' Alisha noticed the pair were liking each other’s Facebook posts relentlessly before she received a message request from the woman. 'She ends up sending me the entire chat,' Alisha said. Alisha found out her new boyfriend had picked up his other girlfriend in her car and taken her back to her place for some 'glass pipe action' and 'extracurricular activities'. Alisha said she left work early and organised a flight back home, before visiting him at his new workplace and reclaiming her car. She returned to her house and began to pack his belongings. 'It was then that I find a whole bag of my jewellery in his backpack,' Alisha explained. 'He was obviously planning to steal it because cheating wasn't enough.' 'This is where the story should have ended,' Alisha said. She decided to unblock him to let him explain himself and he told her that he was a 'troubled soul' who was trying to get clean and kick his meth addiction. Alisha forgave him, and he even convinced her to move in at a higher rent which he didn't help pay.
A trail of thefts, a court case, and a cautionary tale
During the move, $100 Bunnings vouchers she had been gifted went missing along with a $2,000 laptop. 'For months he denied that he had anything to do with it,' Alisha said. Using the serial numbers for the vouchers, she tracked them down to find out that her boyfriend's brother had used them at Gympie Bunnings. She also found out her laptop had been pawned at Cash Converters for just $150. Alisha then took him to court. 'And yes, he cried like a little baby, begging for me to drop the charges,' she said. She revealed the man had been convicted of stealing another partner's possessions eight years earlier. Aussies immediately sympathised with Alisha, with some sharing their own horror dating stories. 'Sounds identical to what happened with a family member, but he signed her brand new car into his name and then tried selling the car,' one wrote. 'Dating on the Sunshine Coast is a s***show,' another added.
