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I got home from a 12 hour day of playing music and grabbed my three guitars and food I just bought and went inside with the intention of grabbing my amplifier after I was done eating.

Of course I passed out from lack of sleep and the long work day and woke up to my elderly neighbor banging on my door yelling my name. Some guy had been walking up and down the street and must have been looking for an opportunity to break into a car. He broke in, grabbed my 1974 Fender Vibrolux with newly installed Warehouse Speakers as well as my hidden backup amp in my trunk, a Roland Blues Cube. He took off running into the street parallel to ours which dead ends and disappeared. My neighbor had just seen him and then I took off in my car to find him to no avail. The fucker must live right behind me.

It's my fault. I never leave my stuff in my car. It was a lapse of judgement.

Just filed a police report with a great police officer working over his shift change to come help me out. He was an incredibly sweet LEO.

I'm so pissed! At both myself and the situation. Edited by suspiciousmind
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That sucks man...I've had my car broken into 2 or 3 times back about 10-12 years ago...its a sick feeling when you go to your car and see broken glass or feel the door is ajar and realize what has happened...hopefully you will get your stuff back...
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auto break ins seem to be a plague in some area.  Here in Oak Ridge we seem to have allot of them.  Even the Chief of police wife was a victim of an auto break in.

 

Hopefully the guy will try to pawn the stuff and get caught.  Hopefully your insurance will cover it.  Even if car insurance doesn't, seems I have heard sometimes home owner or maybe renter insurance might since it happened where you live.  However I am no expert on insurance.

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Hey, I know how you feel.  I hate thieves. 

 

This happened to me about 20+ years ago, but I did make off.  I am sure I have told this story before here, but this is what happened.  Similar situation, and this time I left my wallet in my ashtray.  Which is something I don't do then and I have not done since.  However, I have a sudden moment of dishonesty too.  The police officer was taking my report, they took my radar detector, CDs, and my wallet.  Officer asked if I had any cash in my wallet ........I immediately without hesitation said about $300 in cash :devil: (which in reality I had only maybe $5).  I have no clue why I said that.  2-3 days letter my wallet was found, and no cash.  Oh well, I got back my cc cards, drivers license and a few pictures.  Months later, I got a call from the LEO dept, they had caught the thief, and they wanted me to attend court.   In the end, it was not one person but three young men, and it was not the guy or guys I had stereotyped as I walked into the courtroom, but the three very prim and proper young men in suits with fresh haircuts sitting exactly beside me.  They pleaded guilty to breaking in to about 10 cars that night and promised to pay restitution of $2K and $3K I think for everyone's loss.  Several more months later, I received a couple of checks for the cost of the radar detector, music CDs and my $300 cash.  :whistle:

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Well except for your lax in memory of how much money you had in your wallet you got all your money to cover your loss. I don't know why you were so surprised about how neat and nicely dressed they were. That is their lawyers idea. It makes them look more like upstanding pillars of the community in court. Look at those college kids that have been charged with rape next time they are ij the news. They are rough tough jock football players that look like Lawyers and Preachers when they are in court. Don't be fooled by how the are dressed. They were not dressed that way the night they broke into your car.....................jmho

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I got home from a 12 hour day of playing music and grabbed my three guitars and food I just bought and went inside with the intention of grabbing my amplifier after I was done eating.

Of course I passed out from lack of sleep and the long work day and woke up to my elderly neighbor banging on my door yelling my name. Some guy had been walking up and down the street and must have been looking for an opportunity to break into a car. He broke in, grabbed my 1974 Fender Vibrolux with newly installed Warehouse Speakers as well as my hidden backup amp in my trunk, a Roland Blues Cube. He took off running into the street parallel to ours which dead ends and disappeared. My neighbor had just seen him and then I took off in my car to find him to no avail. The ####er must live right behind me.

It's my fault. I never leave my stuff in my car. It was a lapse of judgement.

Just filed a police report with a great police officer working over his shift change to come help me out. He was an incredibly sweet LEO.

I'm so pissed! At both myself and the situation.

I hope you get your stuff back. Unless the guy plans on learning how to play it the guy is probably a junkie and it will turn up in a pawn shop shortly. Thing is if you go in an ask if what was taken from you was pawned depending on how much they loaned on it and how honest the pawn shop is will depend on if you ever get it back. If you alert the pawn shop that they purchased stolen property when the time is up on it and should be put out for sale. On the other hand if the pawn shop is a really honest one they will tell you yes they have it and you can let the police know and they may get it back for you and the information on the thief. I hope you get it back.............. :up: 


 

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A friend owns a pawn shop when the Police come in and find stolen property the pawn shops must turn it over.  It's good you called them
and have a report on the books.  
 
Are those amps part of your work or more of an after work love or hobby?


It's part of my work. Besides that amp being vintage with boutique speakers, it's also seen a lot of studio and road time. It's been on a lot of records, lots of sentimental value.

Thanks everyone. I'm so pissed I can't sleep. I've just been laying here stewing in it. I've got a gig downtown later today.. Thankfully I've got a lot of friends that will loan me some gear so I can work.

Luckily the son of a bitch left my pedal board alone, which has more money in it than the amp does.
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Sorry to hear. It is an awful thing to have happen.

 

I had my car broken into years ago when I lived in SE Florida. I let the police fingerprint my car. That stuff wont come off! That and broken cubes of glass for months.

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I got some of my stolen stuff out of a pawn shop one time. It was an inside job. One of my employees took some items from our service truck and pawned them. About 15 minutes of interrogation and he admitted to it and told me where it was. An officer went with me and they released it to me but I still had to pay the pawn shop their fees for it. The officer said I will be paid back from the court through restitution from the thief. I needed the tools for work so I paid it right then so I could get them back.

 

It's been 3.5 years and I have not seen a dime. The court told me all the money that he pays goes toward fines and costs first and the victim gets their money last. It's only $85 for the pawn fees and the stuff was worth about $1,500 so I was just glad to get it back. The guy did not even get any jail time just more probation on top of what he already had.

 

The officers have access to a database of pawn shop activity so if it's in pawn they may be able to find it. Keep an eye out yourself also, it may turn up. Hope you find your stuff.

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Probably goes without saying but I'd put some calls in to the local music shops too and give them a heads up. If the thief is savy enough to use google it may even end up on eBay. I'd also make some time to start scouring craigslist as well. If you want, PM me your number and I'll shoot you a text if I come across it at all.
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