NancyJohnson Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 (edited) I was just reading (on Facebook) the cheery story of one of our bass playing brothers, John VanZanten of Seattle, who about 14 years ago had his dream bass built by Mike Lull Guitar Works. Two weeks ago the bass was stolen, then the thief contacted Lulls in an attempt to sell it to them; Paul Schuster at Lull got photos, verification of the serial numbers etc and convinced the person who had it to bring it in as they had an interest in buying guitars for cash. The guy took it in and Mike Lull seized the instrument advising the thief that the bass was stolen and the guy fled empty handed. Bass has been reunited with the original owner. Brilliant, eh? I doubt you're going to get that sort or after service from Fender. Edited May 23, 2019 by NancyJohnson Speling. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo-London Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Agreed. Happy ending though due to the sheer stupidity of the thief. Davo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubis Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 What a great story, and great respect to Lull for their actions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 To quote Forrest Gump... "My mama says...'stupid is, as stupid does' " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HazBeen Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 Mike and his team are awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 The thief was... lulled into a false sense of security. I’m so sorry. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICbass Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 19 minutes ago, Doctor J said: The thief was... lulled into a false sense of security. I’m so sorry. How COULD you! 👍👏👏👌 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmccombe7 Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Happy wee story. Nice one. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 On 23/05/2019 at 12:26, NancyJohnson said: I was just reading (on Facebook) the cheery story of one of our bass playing brothers, John VanZanten of Seattle, who about 14 years ago had his dream bass built by Mike Lull Guitar Works. Two weeks ago the bass was stolen, then the thief contacted Lulls in an attempt to sell it to them; Paul Schuster at Lull got photos, verification of the serial numbers etc and convinced the person who had it to bring it in as they had an interest in buying guitars for cash. The guy took it in and Mike Lull seized the instrument advising the thief that the bass was stolen and the guy fled empty handed. Bass has been reunited with the original owner. Brilliant, eh? I doubt you're going to get that sort or after service from Fender. I love stories involving low intelligence criminals... Jay Leno's show used to have a section on that on Monday nights, back in the late 90s when I was living in DC. There's a story I remember where a supermarket got raided one night. There was CCTV, but the thief (there was only one) was aware of that, and he used a paper bag to cover his face to avoid being recognised. Then we're shown some CCTV footage where the would be thief trips on something and hits himself against a shelf... because he had not made holes in the bag to see through. He learns from that, 'though, and is shown again, with holes in the bag so he is now able to see what he is doing. He was still caught. How? Well... he was still wearing his uniform, name tag and all. He was the security guard working at the store. Even if the name tag was not quite legible, he was extremely easy to recognise... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mingsta Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 thats made my day! though it would have been even better if the workshop had gotten busy with the hacksaw and upgraded said bass with some genuine bone nut and ivory inlays ;o) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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