Re: [Harp-L] Re: Harmonica Case theft deterents

[fjm <mktspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In years and years of playing dive bars I've experienced one theft 
attempt.  I lost pieces of my car stereo when someone attempted to pry 
my pull out stereo out of the dash of my car.  Ir ruined the dash and 
the radio plus I lost a window but I still got to keep the pieces of my 
radio.  Our guitar player lost his Bronco but he'd neglected to make 
payments on it.  Man those repo guys were fast.  I saw it going over the 
hill on the hook.  We lost a speaker once but that's because we left it 
on the tailgate of the truck and drove off.  My experience regarding 
tools and metal is completely different.  People walk off with tools 
constantly, it's a cost of doing business and metal especially copper 
and aluminium disappears if left unattended in the wrong place.  I guess 
this makes the brass bodied Filiskos vulnerable at 85 cents a pound.  I 
do think my experience is more than good luck though.  We never left the 
vehicle unattended when we would load out at the end of the night. 
Someone always stood by until the next object would appear and I don't 
leave my harmonicas unattended on the stage, ever.  Bill's probably 
right, the looped cable would solve any problem because it's just an 
opportunist that would grab an unattended case to see what's in it once 
he's found a safer place to open it.  Like virtually all thefts the 
damage is disproportionate to the financial reward to the thief.  A case 
of used harmonicas would be virtually worthless but could be almost 
impossible to replace if they were customs.  fjm