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[wombat]

Had a very highschooly New Year's... drank too much, smoked too much, staggered into the party a teacher from my school was holding, left, went for breakfast at 4, did regrettable things, passed out in the basement.  It went well, in other words.

It is good to hear that at least one of us had an appropriate sort of New Year's.  I like the somewhat suspicious sound of a teacher throwing a New Year's party that students are invited to, too.

Although I suppose we have yet to hear from those who partied too hard to recover enough to post by now.

[conure]

On NYE I find it best to WORK and avoid that whole "I am depressed. What am I DOING? etc" scene, and also, like Amy from SGR, earn TALL CASH.

[V-Adore]

Well, last night we managed a belated "Happy New Year Minus a Day" party thing. It involved a group of five or six of us sitting around, playing some old-skool Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (we are the sort of nerds who all know what THAC0 stands for*), going out for tacos and burgers at midnight, watching Micah play Soul Calibur II, bitching about our majors... that kind of thing. It's basically what I did for NYE all throughout high school, and it felt good.

* To Hit Armor Class 0.

[CortJstr]

Come on, it's THAC0, that comes up in jokes enough you have to know it.

[AlohaDawg]

We went away for 10 days and when we got back, our housesitter, who we have known for a year, from church, let a bunch of people go through our house and they relieved us of something like 10,000 dollars worth of stuff including a 22 year old US made Fender Strat with a rosewood neck -black with a black pickguard.

If anyone knows where I can buy this exact guitar, I would be appreciative since it was my wife's and it is the one thing we really want back.

Happy F'in New Year!

[pmcd9]

We went away for 10 days and when we got back, our housesitter, who we have known for a year, from church, let a bunch of people go through our house and they relieved us of something like 10,000 dollars worth of stuff including a 22 year old US made Fender Strat with a rosewood neck -black with a black pickguard.

If anyone knows where I can buy this exact guitar, I would be appreciative since it was my wife's and it is the one thing we really want back.

Happy F'in New Year!

How long have you had that strat?  Maybe it's the same one that was stolen from me 7 years ago.  I had it for about 5 years.  Before me a crackhead friend stole it from someone else and sold it to me.  Now it's been stolen from me and stolen from you too.

~Paul

[wombat]

Oh wow, that is so awful.  I hope at least now your year has nowhere to go but up.

[AlohaDawg]

We went away for 10 days and when we got back, our housesitter, who we have known for a year, from church, let a bunch of people go through our house and they relieved us of something like 10,000 dollars worth of stuff including a 22 year old US made Fender Strat with a rosewood neck -black with a black pickguard.

If anyone knows where I can buy this exact guitar, I would be appreciative since it was my wife's and it is the one thing we really want back.

Happy F'in New Year!

How long have you had that strat?  Maybe it's the same one that was stolen from me 7 years ago.  I had it for about 5 years.  Before me a crackhead friend stole it from someone else and sold it to me.  Now it's been stolen from me and stolen from you too.

~Paul

She had it the whole 22 years. 16th Birthday present. I made a mistake describing it, though, it actually has a steel reinforced maple neck. Sorry to hear you lost yours, though, too, not to mention the previous owner... because it was truly a thing of beauty.

[jough]

I just remembered that you live in Hawaii.

Provided that no one stole it for the sake of owning it themselves, I'd check the island's pawn shops and music stores to see if one of them recently bought it.

Even if they've re-sold it by this time, many of those stores keep a photographic record of those who have sold things to them, and records of to whom they have sold items.

There's a possibility that you could get it back if the perp tries to sell it.

And I hope that you were insured, at least, for the replaceable items.

Dang, that sucks hind tit.

[jough]

P.S. - Are you prosecuting the house sitter?

Me?  I'd cut off her right hand and instruct her to find my things with the other one - that is, if she intends to continue having another hand.

But maybe that's just me.

[CortJstr]

Both this and the huge fire near me last night just reinforces the point that I need to get off my ass and start photographing all my shit for insurance purposes. I did it a few years ago that they're all way out of date.

And with a digital camera and secure webspace it's so much easier than it used to be. Which just makes me feel even lazier.

Anyway, I can think of few ways for your return home to suck further. Just remember if anything were to, *ahem* happen to your friend you'd probably be the prime suspect.

[jough]

Yes, but the burden of proof is on them.  And if you know people and have a good alibi (i.e. you're in another country or on televison at the time) you're scott free.

Not that I'd, you know, recommend such an action.

[AlohaDawg]

P.S. - Are you prosecuting the house sitter?

Me?  I'd cut off her right hand and instruct her to find my things with the other one - that is, if she intends to continue having another hand.

But maybe that's just me.

The Detectives are working her over, and the FBI after that since there was also an id theft. Then we launch a futile (but probably useful in terms of applying pressure) civil lawsuit for responsibility for the loss, since we have witnesses to the 'gathering' she held at our house. 12 reasonable people could easily conclude that even if she didn't steal anything, she is certainly responsible for what happened. We are hoping she cracks under the pressure but there is also the possibility that she only knows one person and they did all the damage. I count that a distinct possibility.

The HPD has a pawnshop detail who is constantly checking out the pawnshops - but there is a 'swap meet' here too and I'm betting the stuff went there the next day. A tourist could even buy it and take it back to the mainland. But we are remaining optimistic. This is low tourist season.

It's a pisser, all right.

[Limmo]

You may want to distribute info to your local guitar stores as well.  They might wind up being approached.  I can't imagine that there are that many of them, even on the big island.

A good friend of mine had his apartment robbed; he lost three basses, including a gold Fender Jazz Bass.  A few days later, someone from a local music store called: they had the bass.  Turns out the thief tried to sell it to the guy at the music store who regularly did the neck adjustments on the bass.  He recognized it immediately and told the kid look, you have two choices: you can stay here and explain to the police how this is your bass or you can just walk away now.  The kid walked.  

If that happened in a city the size of L.A., you could get lucky, too.

[V-Adore]

Seriously, case everywhere. The worst case scenario is that you lose your time, but that's a small price to pay for the recovery of a guitar like that, and my guess is that you have a good chance. And sue the ##### off that housekeeper, unless you decide to go Jough's route and start cutting off hands.

My utmost sympathies, man. That blows.