Man stuffs guitar in his pants, leaves store

Thursday, April 3, 2008

LEWISTON - Police were searching for three men Wednesday, one of them accused of stealing a guitar from a music store by stuffing the instrument down his pants.

The heist occurred at Music Maniac in the Lewiston Mall last week, police said. Stolen was a Fender Stratocaster guitar.

Police said that two of the suspects stood around inside the store, acting as lookouts and providing distraction. The third man shoved the guitar into his pants and pulled a long sweatshirt over the top of it, police said.

The theft was discovered later and video surveillance footage was turned over to police. The footage clearly shows each of the three suspects, all of them wearing baseball caps and open coats.

The suspect identified as the one who stole the Fender is seen walking with the guitar in his right hand.

Strangely, it was at least the second such theft to occur at the store in recent years.

In November 2006, a man was caught as he tried to walk out with a guitar jammed into his pants.

"Hey baby check out my big instrument"

Good job he didn't try stealing a double-bass!! hehehe It wouldn'e surprise me if the two thefts were committed by the same person..

On the subject of guitars I now own a genuine imitation Les Paul, as I'm gonna try teaching myself to play it; already got the first few bars of "500 Miles" by The Proclaimers pretty much down pat..

UJ

Man, what is this world coming to?

When I was a kid there was no need for baggy coats or anything like that. We'd just take stuff like this and walk straight out the door with it!

I always found it funny that if you simply looked casual about it, and acted like you weren't doing anything wrong then nobody really bothered to notice. And nobody ever did.

...Of course that was only when I was a stupid pissed off kid cuz he had parents who threw pennies around like manhole covers.

I'm wondering how he got the guitar down his pants . Guitars are big

Simple,