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Stolen Bass

So around this time last year, I was deployed to the Middle East (I play bass for the Air Force band). Right before I deployed, I moved into my friend's house because I was moving to Hawaii as soon as we got back and he wasn't going to charge me rent like my apartment building was. Anyway, one week into our deployment, we found out that his house had been broken into and everything of value that he and I had in the house was stolen. I didn't have a whole lot there, but a bass that a friend and I had built together was stolen along with everything else. Here is the victim:
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She's based off of the symbol of the the Klingon empire from Star Trek (I'm a huge nerd). Anyway, it's the only one of it's kind out there and it hasn't been seen. Before I moved, I searched all of the pawn shops in the St. Louis/Belleville, IL area and also craigslist. I'm still looking to this day, but nothing has turned up.

So now, I turn to you fellow masters of the low end. If there is anybody that lives in the St Louis area, please keep an eye out for this. She could be anywhere by now, so if anybody here happens upon her, please, let me know. I would love to be reunited with her again. thank you.
 
I had a panhandler go into my car while I was loading in at a gig last month. I guess he thought he'd help himself when I refused his request. I thought I had locked it while I took some gear in, but apparently left passenger side unlocked. When I came out he was in the passenger front seat going though the console. He took off running, didn't get anything.