Lindsay Lohan's Home Burglarized

When Lindsay Lohan opened the door of her posh Hollywood Hills pad at three-o-clock Sunday morning, she found her home burglarized.

Though the starlet has her own digs, career, and banks more bucks than Obama, she did what any typical twenty-something would do: she dialed dad.

Michael Lohan called the LAPD to report the burglary of his daughter's Hollywood Hills home.

"Three men were captured by surveillance video breaking into Lindsay's house in the Hollywood Hills" TMZ reported.

Michael Lohan told TMZ a safe was ripped off the wall and a couple of watches were taken.

"It's true," Dina Lohan told < http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20299936,00.html>People>. "The door was off the hinges and door handles removed. Bags, shoes and jewelry were taken too. Thank God [Lindsay] wasn't home."

While it is not yet known exactly what was taken and whodunit, Lohan's publicist Leslie Sloane-Zelnik confirmed that police have been given the security surveillance video from Lohan's home.

But while the LAPD investigates, Michael Lohan has his own theory. According to TMZ, Mr. Lohan believes the alleged theft was "an inside job," as employees failed to turn the house alarm on.

"I am not going to put up with individuals violating my family," he said. "Lindsay is a charitable, generous person that always gives. This is a personal violation and it has got to stop."

Sounding seemingly supportive of the "inside job" theory, Lohan's rep released a statement saying, "Many of [Lindsay's] personal belongings were taken without remorse."

But inside or outside, perhaps most unexpected and least explored, has been bloggers' reactions to the alleged Lohan burglary. While most break-ins are met with empathy and sensitivity for the victim, a staggering number of bloggers are showing little love for Lohan. Instead, in response to the Lohan burglary stories scouring the internet, the Mean Girls star is receiving many mean retorts. A blogger on TMZ wrote "Someone was looking for drugs and/or the jewelry she allegedly stole. A burglar taking from a thief..."

And yet another TMZ typer, punches, "Hope they didn't steal her phone, she seems abnormally attached to it. Get a life woman, get help, go into re-hab." These are just a couple mounting mean girls' messages.

Such wicked web-wide response compels the curious writer to consider: why? Why such a cruel response to an unfortunate incident? With a congestion of auto accidents in 2004, 2005, and 2006, stints at celebrity rehab respites Wonderland Center, Promises, and Cirque Lodge Treatment Center, and a 2007 conviction for drunk driving and cocaine possession, has the world-at-large largely decided that Lindsay Lohan is a lost cause? Have we seen one too many damaging photos of Lohan, an excess of headstrong headlines? In short, at a twenty-three year old young woman who is obviously struggling, why would the public rather point their fingers than pity? And then, is there a point at which, if you fail enough, even misfortune becomes your fault?

While we will have to wait for the details of the alleged burglary, with biting bloggers chewing out Lindsay Lohan, the question that ransacks my mind is this: have we become a society in which, if you fall Lo(w) enough, few will offer a han(d)?