Cello Worth $3.5 Million Stolen From Porch

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The theft early last week of a $3.5-million Stradivarius cello owned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic sent a sour note across the classical music world amid fears that a sophisticated ring of bandits had made off with the 17th century treasure.

Detectives launched an international search for the instrument as aficionados from London to Hong Kong chattered about who might have the cello.

But on Thursday, the investigation shifted decidedly closer to home.

The Los Angeles Police Department released a videotape showing a young man on a bicycle, probably a teenager from the neighborhood, making off with the cello.

The grainy video shows the thief pedaling away with the silver cello case under his arm, then has the sound of him crashing into trash cans before getting away.

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-me-cello7may07.story

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Joshua Bell perhaps our greatest young violinist recently purchased a Strad that had been stolen in the 30's and only resurfaced when the thief/violinist confessed on his deathbed.

Check any musiic oriented magazine in their classified section and there are always ads for stolen instruments.

unless there was no room in the house, which I find hard to believe because,


THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR...

but it was funny :)

It's Friday and that's the condition my brain is in right now.

I loved the joke.

Ugh.

something that valuable outside?

Insurance scam?

Free publicity?

No good reason, that's for sure.