Appeal as guitar stolen from Blackburn charity shop (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Appeal as guitar stolen from Blackburn charity shop
10:00pm Wednesday 20th March 2013 in News
BAFFLED Charity shop volunteer Jennifer Slater says she can’t understand why someone would steal a guitar
A VOLUNTEER at a charity shop has hit out at a thief who stole a £5 guitar from the store.
The instrument had been donated to the St Aiden’s Church charity shop in Blackburn half an hour before it was taken, by the wife of a music teacher who thought it would be a good guitar for somebody to learn on.
Volunteer Alan Barry said he had stepped into the back of the shop in Mincing Lane for five minutes when a man who had been strumming the instrument left without paying for it.
Mr Barry’s wife Florence had been manning the till when the theft happened, her arm still in a sling following shoulder surgery.
He said: “I felt so angry when I realised that someone had stolen it.
“I feel really taken advantage of.
“If anybody notices their husband or boyfriend with a new guitar fitting the description, please get him to post £5 in an envelope through the shop door.”
The guitar had slight damage on the underside of the body and had a clear lacquer finish.
Comments(9)
grumpyoldlady
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11:37pm Wed 20 Mar 13
woolywords
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6:40am Thu 21 Mar 13
grumpyoldlady wrote:If it is someone busking, make them pay a tenner, a fiver for the instrument and another fiver towards the charity.
2for5p strikes again. He fails to understand the article and makes stupid comments. Nobody has made this a police matter, the charity workers have simply made a polite request for the thief to post £5 through the letterbox.
Shoplifting in a charity shop of all places.. words fail me.
ghanto
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10:19am Thu 21 Mar 13
Telegraphs comming to you, taking pitures etc is wasting time and wages
Remember its chairity shop and people with financial diffioculty would only do stealing £5.00 guitar or he wanted to learn music to make money and become a superstar
useyourhead
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11:25am Thu 21 Mar 13
ghanto wrote:theft is theft. this charity is the victim, not a timewaster. What do you think newspaper reporters and photographers are paid for if not to go and photograph and interview local items? might not always be world shattering exclusives but people still want to know about their area.
for the sake of free charity £5.00 guitar you have wasted time and wages
Telegraphs comming to you, taking pitures etc is wasting time and wages
Remember its chairity shop and people with financial diffioculty would only do stealing £5.00 guitar or he wanted to learn music to make money and become a superstar
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Also, just because its a charity shop and you assume he is hard up it's ok to steal, how about if he swiped a collection tin off a counter or stole a charity minibus?
vicn1956
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11:35am Thu 21 Mar 13
ghanto
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11:52am Thu 21 Mar 13
the lady looks quiet upset which is not worth more then the guitar and the thief
vicn1956
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2:32pm Thu 21 Mar 13
tajmahalovertheoldmarket
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10:57pm Fri 22 Mar 13
2 for 5p says...
10:14pm Wed 20 Mar 13
Put the police on overtime and do a all ports warning. The Mafia may be behind this one. :-)