Happy Ending for Stolen Bass (not Alembic)

[CaseyVancouver]

My wife and I were horrifed to hear of a young newlywed couple who had their uhaul van stolen here at a suburb near Vancouver. Early this month they moved from east coast New Brunswick to west coast Abbotsford. Included in the uhaul was a very nice 5 string bass, which they showed a closeup pic of, family heirlooms and all their possessions.

Happy days as police have recovered the goods and caught the crooks 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/happy-news-for-newlyweds-who-lost-everything-in-u-haul-heist-1.4306417

[edwardofhuncote]

That's great news. 

The bass in the picture looks like an Ibanez, but that doesn't make it any less great. 

I always think about how cool it would be to find Jimmy J's stolen 5-string one day.

[CaseyVancouver]

Here's the original picture of the bass.

When we saw it we went 'hey that's an Alembic' but you may be correct, it could be an Ibanez!

[StephenR]

Always good news when stolen property gets returned to its rightful owners. Definitely not an Alembic bass, looks like an Ibanez to me, too.

[pauldo]

Justice sometimes prevails!  Too bad they don't have a picture of the crooks hanging by their toe nails. 

[CaseyVancouver]

Thanks Gregory for catching that right away!  The group picture shows the Ibanez SR style head for sure. I should of caught that since I own two Ibanez! Thread edited.

Have a great day. 

C.

[gtrguy]

Back in 1979 I had a 3 month old Gibson red ES355 taken from me. I left it at a local music store for a neck adjustment and while it was there, someone got my address off the repair tag. I think it was done with the help of someone who worked there or the store owner. The store is long gone.

I still miss it. I wish Gibson had a database like Alembic does for stolen guitars.

Moral; never give out your address on instruments going out for work to be done