Peter and Pauline: Burglar!

Both Peter and Pauline work in the Music career. When last I saw Peter, he was a Rock Star. Somehow, in the weeks since I played with him, he had been demoted to Pop Icon. Way to go, Peter.

Pauline is lower than he is on the totem pole, and not as good on the guitar. They still like to go to the park and play together, though.

I have some concerns about Pauline's future with Peter, though. She is flirty and has commitment issues, which wouldn't bother me as much as her lifetime wish to have ten lovers! This could get messy, especially since Peter, as a hopeless romantic, is all about the monogamy.

I also noticed that charismatic, friendly Peter has an awful lot of people in his relationship panel who dislike him...and they're all guys. I haven't seen any new romantic interests in Pauline's relationship panel, but that doesn't mean a whole lot - they could already have fallen out with each other.

Or maybe Pauline's old boyfriend Hank Goddard - remember when Peter asked her to break up with him? - has been spreading tales.

Be that as it may, Peter often gets booed by random guys walking down the street.

Oh, man, a thumbs-down, too. That's, like, the ultimate diss.

And then things got even better when this guy showed up at their house in the middle of the night.

Bet you didn't know criminals dressed like mimes, did you?

He whips out his black sack and...

Shazam! The stove is gone!

Usually I'm careful to buy a burglar alarm very early in the game, but Peter and Pauline live in such a tiny little house, with such crappy furniture, that I didn't think there was anything there a burglar might want to steal.

Pauline heard the commotion, jumped out of the bed, and called the police.

The police officer showed up and confronted the thief in the bathroom, from which he had just stolen the toilet. (The toilet? Really?)

Pauline wanted to go in and watch, but there wasn't enough room.

The police officer opened up a can of whoop-ass on the burglar, and ended up winning.

I guess "police brutality" isn't something the Sims have to worry about.

Defeated, the thief placed his hands on his head and let the officer cuff him.

He was taken out to wait in the police cruiser while the officer assessed the house. The officer gave back all of the things that the thief had stolen. Pauline went back to bed.

Peter, meanwhile, never even cracked an eyelid during the whole ordeal.