4000 Aussie dollars for a couple of Gentle Giant LPs? Have they become highly collectible??
Something not quite right here?
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4000 Aussie dollars for a couple of Gentle Giant LPs? Have they become highly collectible??
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Hmmm
Stories like that always remind me of Peanuts when the doghouse went up in flames. As it burnt to the ground Snoopy sobbed on Charlie Brown’s shoulder lamenting all the things he’d just lost….
“My books, my records, my pool table, my Van Gogh!”
They’re certainly not worth much if he stored them in the way shown in the photo
At last! I’m rich! Rich!! RICH!!!
@fitterstoke
Book him, Danno!
Message to Aussie plod…
“Man, 60s-dodger, bad hair, band T-shirt, bad hygiene, “gamer”, subscribes to Record Collector and Classic Rock, favourite film Star Wars, lives in Castlemaine with his mum.”
If you corner said suspect play him something by someone black who isn’t Jimi Hendrix.
This is NOT a difficult case.
Nice work DCI @Deramdaze.
This case is anything but cold.
Book him Inspector @Moose_the Moose!!
Now sonny, are you going to come quietly or am I going to have to apply the thumbscrews?*
(*play The King of Rock & Soul very loud)
What’s that, just over two grand sterling? A nice original Vertigo copy of one the early albums with gatefold sleeve and what have you in perfect nick, will only set you back around £200 in mint condition. These Oz police must be listening to the insurance loss adjuster and taking the estimate as gospel.
It seems a bit rum. If they were worth that much, then they’ve been nicked by somebody he knows. No self respecting house breaker steals vinyl though. It’s too heavy and a ball ache to get rid of.
I was thinking that nobody in their right mind steals that kind of stuff all at once. Too heavy/bulky, too time-consuming a job.
Most housebreakers are lazy opportunists. They only steal what is easily portable/easily convertable to cash/drugs and they want to be off the premises as quickly as possible.
I am suspicious of this story. Has the victim seriously pissed off somebody who knows them and their proclivities? Someone who wants vengeance for something or other?
Or they could be vinyl enthusiasts from the Hoffman forum, desperate for some classic, minty, analogue sounds?
Was it a neighbour, whose complaints about the loudness of his late night music were greeted with scorn and verbal abuse?
Or Penry, the mild-mannered janitor?
Could be