This is old news now: my modular was stolen in December. I was to play at a radio station the morning of the 16th. I stayed at my bandmate's house the night before. He and I were prepping some samples and then we got some sleep. I got up at 5am to load my car, which I did. I loaded up the car, went back into the house to get him, and when we came out together about seven minutes later the car was gone. He lives in a house with a driveway. When I left it, the car was closed and not running. I still had my keys on me. At first, I couldn't reach the conclusion that the car was stolen. I checked the driveway at the other side of the house. I checked on the opposite side of the road as if the car rolled off. I stood there in the dark with my key in my hand and finally decided it was stolen and to call the police.
I'm going to omit this section of the story because of the unkind words I have for the police. When you call 911 to tell them your vehicle has just been stolen within the last ten minutes, don't expect much.
Along with the modular, I had a lot of instruments and devices stolen: Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Casio SK-1, Yamaha PSS-270, Digitech RDS, RME Fireface 400, MacBook Pro, iPod Touch, RODE NT5 pair, Beyerdynamic DT880, Fender Deluxe 12, and on.
I was really on my own for the first few days after the theft. The only police officer I had a phone number for was always off duty. I searched craigslist constantly for the following few days. Suddenly, I was surprised to find someone had made a new post of random keystrokes to my blog (they had my computer with all my accounts signed in). I switched gears and started tracking down an IP address connected to the activity on my blog. This is when I found my one and only lead and finally had something to entice the police to help.
We had to wait on a subpoena to the ISP. A couple days later I got a call from a detective saying that he had been surveilling the address and they had a suspect. With all the diligent police work happening from this point on, a warrant was issued, the police raided an apartment, apprehended a suspect, retrieved my car, and retrieved nearly all my property.
The modular was safe. The thief never bothered to take it out of the vehicle. They left my car in the parking spaces outside their apartment for the 3 weeks this endured. I doubt the doors were locked all that time. I'm surprised the modular wasn't stolen twice.
I was really screwed for about six weeks, but now it's all behind me. My insurance company came through, I am supposed to receive some restitution from the thief (he pled guilty), I have some new gear, and I have my modular back.
This being the abridged version of the story, I might expand if there is interest for it. I managed to call into the radio station and give them a depressing interview about an hour after it happened plus a short unplugged noise set done with a bucket of coins. I think I might be the first sucker to have a MOTM stolen.
Since I'm at a net loss, if you could show some pity and buy my brand new Gator 12U Pop-up mixer case, that would be great. I'll also trade it for a module or a kit!
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