THEFT IN THE NIGHT

Someone broke into my car last night and took all the money and my new tape deck. I loved that tape deck 

I meant CD player. About $15 in change

Sorry to hear that Bill, I hate thieves.

I was rehearsing with a blues band back in the '90's and someone decided to break into my Vauxhall Astra parked outside the hall. They started by trying to crowbar the door open, then eventually realised it was easier to break the window. £500 of damage for stupidity.

The worst thing was that they rifled through my cassettes but didn't take any, just left them on the floor...

Sounds like someone needs their hands amputated. 

bayoubill


I meant CD player. About $15 in change

I didn't think there were any new tape decks.  It still sucks. Sorry to hear about that.  Did they damage the car?  

bapu


James,

Who in their right mind would want Depeche Mode cassettes?

Besides Jules.

I totally deserved that. ;)




(and hahahahaha, I'm listening to a Dave Gahan album as I read this)

Dang that's so not fun....or cool. 

But it happens. 

I forgot to lock the side doors to my van one day while I was in school. I had the band PA system in the van along with amps and other stuff.... I came out after class to find my drivers door unlocked. I did remember to lock that when I went in to class..... it required a key to lock it.... none of those clickers like we have now.  
So the first thing I notice when I get in is the 8 track which I had hanging under the dash was gone. It was a piece of crap that was supposed to be installed in the dash but was for a different vehicle so I hung it under and wired it up. I yanked back the curtain I had behind the seats fearing to see an empty van...... panic..... but everything was there. I guess the PA was too big and heavy to mess with in the college parking lot with people coming and going. 

Lesson learned..... double check the doors next time. 


Over the years I've been in a few bands that had vehicles parked at gigs when people tried to do some B&E on us. Slight damage to the loading door on the rear of the truck.

My SG was stolen twice. I've told this story before.... 

The first time was off of the Marine Corps base after a gig at 2nd area E-club.  I had to buy another guitar to keep playing the gigs we had.... but through the work of the NIS and the Philadelphia police dept, the guitar was recovered and since I had kept on the NIS officer and had given serial numbers to him, I got the guitar back after 4 months or so. The detective work on this case was amazing.... turned out the guy who stole it had a brother living in Philadelphia who was a fence. The PPD had him under surveillance and busted him recovering my guitar and returning it to NC and the NIS.  They called me and I could not believe it...I had chalked it up as gone. 

Second time..... I came home to find the door to my trailer ajar and the bottom glass broken out.  This time, I had the SG stolen from under the couch, my bass guitar, a small amp, and a Teac 4 track reel to reel were missing, but the TV & stereo near the door and money in the bedroom drawer were not touched. I figured it to be a musician. A neighbor saw a grey car around 2pm. Since 2 musicians in town that I knew had grey cars, and one was a rich kid... I went to see the other guy. Long story short, he did take the stuff, and after the police talked to him...I did the detective work on this one..then called the police who got pissed at me for delaying the call and "contaminating the scene" until I told them I think I have it all figured out and the guy is going to come see me later....... anyway, I got the call from the police next day to come and get my stuff.... all of it.  The guitar amp and bass were at his friends house and he threw the TEAC into a ditch...... it was a very expensive 4 track tape machine..... my first attempt at home recording.... 


add: I had a small quantity of herbal medication in the guitar case.....and I was hoping and praying that the thief had found it and removed it .....which he had.  Sweating bullets on that one as I walked into the police dept to ID my gear and claim it. 

END OF STORY:  the kid who swiped the gear was a really, really talented guitar player who had a crappy guitar..... not making excuses... he knew he did wrong. I called him a few years after this event and hired him to play guitar in a band I had. He was amazing...and after we had a little "man to man" discussion about things in the past... we moved on and he played in that band for 9 months and we got along well.