YOU SAID:
Our thieves are here, or were.
INTO JAPANESE
我々の泥棒はここにいるか、あったかだ。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Our thieves are here or there.
INTO JAPANESE
我々の泥棒はここかそこかだ。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Our thieves are here or there.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.