all in a mornings work
A few facts to start with:
I am in a band. I play Bass. We practice in a large spare room for free at my mums work (Situated in the hills and valleys of England, miles from anywhere). We store our gear at said work.

One morning my mother was driving to work and spotted 'someone' walking through the fields near her work, she thought she recognised him, wondered why he was carrying something that looked like a guitar case, but didn't think too much of it. Out of curiosity though, she went to check our storage room, it had been busted open, kicked if you will. She panicked knowing that I kept two of my basses in there, one a very expensive but plain looking one, the other very cheap, but fancy looking. It was this one that was missing.(thankfully he knew boff all about guitars etc) Other stuff had been riffled through, but nothing taken.

She calls me to let me know. I was pissed off, but thankful the other bass was safe. She told me who she thought it might be. We both agreed it was probably gone, never to return.

I set off to work, annoyed that the twat had nicked my bass.

About an hour later I get a call from my Dad. It turns out that my mum had called my sister as she normally does of a morning and mentioned the stolen bass and the twat that stole it, "he's probably taken it to (local cash-for-goods shop)", mother then rings father and informs him, he goes to afore mentioned shop and asks if a bass had been handed in, it had and was on the counter (it turns out my dad had held the door open for the twat as he'd left the shop), dad calls me, I describe bass over phone, dad gets bass back all within 2 hours. Result.

The police then take prints from the bass, mine are in obvious places, the twats were in obscure ones, nicely laid out.

It turns out that the twat had broken into mothers work (a charity based religious place) stole money from anywhere he could, stole the bass, legged it through fields, sold the bass, and case for £30. The case is worth £50...

He was caught a week later, probably when the £30 had run out. He'd also been caught stealing etc from other local businesses and went down for 8 months.

He's back out now. Twat. But we got him. Briefly...
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 13:26, 7 replies)

I'm going to do a bit of guesswork here, and project that the twat was a smack addict?
Not that that's an excuse - if anything it's an argument for reinstalling the death penalty.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 13:42, closed)

you sir,
are a good guesser.
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 13:45, closed)

reinstalling the death penalty
for having an addiction ?!

wise up man, it's an argument for decriminalizing drugs, nothing else
(AndySpanners not working too hard on, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 15:55, closed)

i'm gonna try and lighten the mood of this one...
even though i was the victim, it's all been sorted.

there should be an actual 'death penalty' where the person in question takes a penalty in either football or rugby, they miss, they die.

surely everyone's a winner in this well thought out solution?
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 16:06, closed)

This
but they should be blindfolded and spun round for 2 minutes before they take the penalty. And they should have to wear Dr Scholl wooden things.
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 22:41, closed)

He sold the bass and case
for less than their actual value? Man, what a tool!
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 9:24, closed)

well it wouldn't have cheered me up...
...if he'd got a good price for them.

"you got £400?! good man, can ya sell the rest of my stuff?"
( Ya What Skiddlyboop, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 11:52, closed)