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Geddy Lee was kidnapped!

#21
Honestly, go to every kids' house who knows the combination to the locker with one of your parents, then talk to each kids' parents and see if they've noticed a new bass in the house recently. Don't say you think any of the kids stole it. Instead, make it seem like you thought someone took it home for practice and left it home by mistake, and that you need to get it back to the school ASAP for school rehearsals. Ask them if they wouldn't mind looking around the house or have you help them look for it. Once you find it (if you do) take it to the music teacher/principal immediately with your parent and tell them who had it.

And yes, report it missing to the police.
 
#22
Another idea to take to the teacher is to replace the lock on the locker and only tell the combination to the people who absolutely, positively, 110% NEED to know it.

I seriously just wish someone would put the bass back just so this ordeal ends. They're on camera, so I don't know why they would bother hiding it now, that's just added stress later on them. Jeez, kids these days, eh?
 
#27
EdHunter said:
Your school has a Geddy? We just have a Stagg with 3 different sets of strings and a broken potentiometer...
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Our school actually has three basses, only one of which gets used. A Squier Affinity P bass, the Geddy (which has a loose solder joint so doesn't currently work), and an active MIM Jazz.

I honestly don't care for any of them, so I bring in my own bass 95% of the time.
 
#28
EdHunter said:
Your school has a Geddy? We just have a Stagg with 3 different sets of strings and a broken potentiometer...
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You're lucky. My school has a bass made by "Phantom" whoever that is. The action is about 1/2 an inch high (no joke), and the jack is crap. Once you find a position where you are not getting this terrible, loud, buzzing noise, you can not move. at all. That's why I bring my bass to school, but if i can't...

*shudder*
 
#29
I remember when my buddies 50 watt peavey guitar amp got stolen out of the band room at our high school. School never made any attempts to find who stole it. Its cool that your school has cameras, but I'm happy mine didn't install them till after I left, I would have gotten into ALOT of trouble NUMEROUS times... :ninja:
 
#31
ShredderMaximus said:
I remember when my buddies 50 watt peavey guitar amp got stolen out of the band room at our high school. School never made any attempts to find who stole it. Its cool that your school has cameras, but I'm happy mine didn't install them till after I left, I would have gotten into ALOT of trouble NUMEROUS times... :ninja:
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There a blind spots ;) but the music building has cameras up and down the main hallway. Thank god there are blind spots, otherwise the security guards wwould have seen some interesting stuff between me and my girlfriend :D
 
#33
My school just brought 15 plus new guitars for the new music and theatre block and stil the same old Yamaha bass that has no knobs, strings with dirt on them so thick there are probably dead bodies in there and a fretboard with frets so worn it's smoother than even my own charms.... :ninja:

I'm pretty much the only one that ever plays it, I hope someone steals it so they buy a new one!

it can only be worth £30 quid maybe?

But I used to be scared for my bass every time I brought it to school as the cupboard was never really locked properly, luckily even though things got stolen loads it was never my bass :hyper:
 
#35
You guys are all lucky. My school had no basses whatsoever. The closest thing we had to a bass was a really awful cello.


It's not like it was a bad school, quite the contrary, it was a great school, but the music dep was so massively underfunded it isn't even funny. The music rooms were essentially a shed with no security, so that if anything was left there over the weekend (such as a teachers laptop, or any instruments) they wouldn't be there on Monday.
 
#36
A. I would assume the school has the serial number on record for their asset list. Make sure that's on the official police reports too.

B. Let the administration/faculty handle it, but keep prodding them.

C. Change the locker's combination, or see if they can go to a key with one of those "do not duplicate". It's easier to control physical keys than control who shares (or writes down and looses) combinations.

D. After it gets back, for crying out loud, invest a few minutes and have someone in the vocational arts electronics program fix the loose solder joint!!

John
 
#38
Figured you guys may like an update. We got it back. But the return story is... interesting. A "student" returned it. His story makes no sense. He claims he saw a non-student take it at our last concert. He never explained how the bass came into his possession. It makes no sense. A non-sttudent took it then this kid mysteriously gets it? Whatever. But here's the best part. The "student" who returned it? His name doesn't exist at our school. Here's where it's hilarious. The student who returned the bass's name is the exact same as the guitarist except the last name is one letter different. ONE. LETTER. DIFFERENT.

Guess we know who took the bass... jackass.
 
#39
Yes! Sometimes just the publicity of a thing can have a positive effect...ie; scaring the bastard into coughing up.

And absolutely NOT that I'm disputing what you say, but when I was in college there was another student who's name was the exact same as mine except for one letter - his last name ended with 'w' and my last name ends with 'e'.
 
#40
My name is Mudd said:
Yes! Sometimes just the publicity of a thing can have a positive effect...ie; scaring the bastard into coughing up.

And absolutely NOT that I'm disputing what you say, but when I was in college there was another student who's name was the exact same as mine except for one letter - his last name ended with 'w' and my last name ends with 'e'.
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also, it could very easily be that someone else returned it and tried to frame the guitarist but got his name slightly wrong.
 

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