Break In...No Tikis Harmed + Break In AGAIN! - Beyond Tiki

W woofmutt Member Seattilite Telstar Joined: Mar 26, 2002 Posts: 2639	W woofmutt Posted posted on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 11:33 PM My friend Sparky's house got busted into last night by some skinny person (can you ever really trust skinny people?) who wiggled through broken glass and bent security bars and managed to get off with Sparky's DVD player, VCR, Camcorder, video sounds system, and 3 of MY DVDs (Fellowship of the Ring extended cut, Buckaroo Bonsai, and Stranger Than Paradise...Not that you asked but I am mourning the loss). Anyway, the criminal(s) looked through everything but broke nothing and most importantly left Sparky's Tiki room untouched...Which for me is the brightest spot in all of this as it means that no member of Tiki Central is a suspect. PART TWO: The son of a bitch came back! Plywood had been put over all the basement windows yesterday but tonight Sparky came home to discover that the bastard thief went into a sort of crawl space and, using an old pick that had been rusting away in the yard, ripped a hole through a wall and made off with Sparky's 200 disc CD player and the 77 discs it held. Again, no Tikis were harmed in this crime. There's some cold comfort in the fact that most of Sparky's CD collection will have no appeal to thieves or pawn shop brokers...Nurse With Wound, Negative Land, X, and so on...And fortunately I'd just borrowed his Neutral Milk Hotel CDs so the gawd damned mother f%#*^% didn't get those. [ Edited by: woofmutt on 2003-01-23 02:49 ]
T thejab Grand Member (1 year) Tradewinds Apartments, Alameda, CA Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2992	T thejab Posted posted on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 11:33 AM I would be very sad if I had a copy of "Stranger than Paradise" stolen from me! It's one of my favorite movies ever.
SH Suburban Hipster Member Rockville, Maryland Joined: Aug 12, 2002 Posts: 272	SH Suburban Hipster Posted posted on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 12:08 PM ^Same here. A great film. In fact, conincidentally I actually own all three of the DVDs listed as stolen, though I didn't get them from Sparky's, I swear. Actually though, DVD is my other big hobby, so it's not that big of a coincidence I guess. Check 'em out here.
TR Tiki Royale Member The Aloha Room in Beautiful Belmont, CA! Joined: Dec 06, 2002 Posts: 891	TR Tiki Royale Posted posted on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 11:53 PM Buckaroo Banzai?!?! Man, I'm sorry... John Bigbootey :tiki:
H hanford_lemoore Tiki Socialite Tiki Central Joined: Mar 23, 2002 Posts: 1899	H hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Fri, Jan 24, 2003 5:02 PM On 2003-01-22 23:53, Tiki Royale wrote:Buckaroo Banzai?!?! Man, I'm sorry... Sorry that he owned it or sorry it was stolen? I always thought that the "Hong Kong Cavaliers" would be a great name for an Exotica band.

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woofmutt Posted posted on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 11:33 PM

My friend Sparky's house got busted into last night by some skinny person (can you ever really trust skinny people?) who wiggled through broken glass and bent security bars and managed to get off with Sparky's DVD player, VCR, Camcorder, video sounds system, and 3 of MY DVDs (Fellowship of the Ring extended cut, Buckaroo Bonsai, and Stranger Than Paradise...Not that you asked but I am mourning the loss). Anyway, the criminal(s) looked through everything but broke nothing and most importantly left Sparky's Tiki room untouched...Which for me is the brightest spot in all of this as it means that no member of Tiki Central is a suspect.

PART TWO: The son of a bitch came back! Plywood had been put over all the basement windows yesterday but tonight Sparky came home to discover that the bastard thief went into a sort of crawl space and, using an old pick that had been rusting away in the yard, ripped a hole through a wall and made off with Sparky's 200 disc CD player and the 77 discs it held. Again, no Tikis were harmed in this crime. There's some cold comfort in the fact that most of Sparky's CD collection will have no appeal to thieves or pawn shop brokers...Nurse With Wound, Negative Land, X, and so on...And fortunately I'd just borrowed his Neutral Milk Hotel CDs so the gawd damned mother f%#*^% didn't get those.

[ Edited by: woofmutt on 2003-01-23 02:49 ]

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thejab Posted posted on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 11:33 AM

I would be very sad if I had a copy of "Stranger than Paradise" stolen from me! It's one of my favorite movies ever.

SH

Suburban Hipster Posted posted on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 12:08 PM

^Same here. A great film. In fact, conincidentally I actually own all three of the DVDs listed as stolen, though I didn't get them from Sparky's, I swear. Actually though, DVD is my other big hobby, so it's not that big of a coincidence I guess. Check 'em out here.

TR

Tiki Royale Posted posted on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 11:53 PM

Buckaroo Banzai?!?! Man, I'm sorry...
John Bigbootey
:tiki:

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hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Fri, Jan 24, 2003 5:02 PM

*On 2003-01-22 23:53, Tiki Royale wrote:*Buckaroo Banzai?!?! Man, I'm sorry...

Sorry that he owned it or sorry it was stolen?

I always thought that the "Hong Kong Cavaliers" would be a great name for an Exotica band.