Banjo stolen on shop street

ArtyC · 02-03-2014 08:40PM #1

Hi,
Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Posting here on behalf of a mate who's a busker. His banjo robbed this morning between 1030 - 1130.... Across from easons

No banjo no work .

It's a long neck, 5 string banjo. Yellow sticker on the case...

Cheers

zarquon · 02-03-2014 09:03PM

ArtyC wrote: »

Hi,
Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Posting here on behalf of a mate who's a busker. His banjo robbed this morning between 1030 - 1130.... Across from easons

No banjo no work .

It's a long neck, 5 string banjo. Yellow sticker on the case...

Cheers

Check local pawn shops as well as adverts.ie and donedeal

ArtyC · 02-03-2014 09:14PM

Been watching them alright. Thanks ! Taken in full view on shop street heart breaking stuff!

washman3 · 02-03-2014 09:26PM

Surely some CCTV in that area. Have you checked with Gardaí/shop owners.
The fact that you know for certain it was between 10.30 and 11.30 will be an enormous help.
This item is probably irreplaceable for the owner, as musicians become totally attached to a particular instrument. Really hope its returned.

ArtyC · 02-03-2014 09:41PM

washman3 wrote: »

Surely some CCTV in that area. Have you checked with Gardaí/shop owners.
The fact that you know for certain it was between 10.30 and 11.30 will be an enormous help.
This item is probably irreplaceable for the owner, as musicians become totally attached to a particular instrument. Really hope its returned.

Reported it to the guards alright but they haven't looked into CCTV as far as I know.... There are loads of cameras so it would amazing to just get it back!

Just posting it up here for him- in case anyone spots it in the meantime- he's a bit lost without it!

dinneenp · 03-03-2014 09:37AM

If this helps I'm presuming this is the banjo (excuse my photo style)

Galway Street Busker by Photoblog.ie (Patrick Dinneen), on Flickr

ArtyC · 03-03-2014 09:41AM

That's the one. Thank you.

renegademaster · 03-03-2014 03:04PM

ArtyC wrote: »

Hi,
Any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated. Posting here on behalf of a mate who's a busker. His banjo robbed this morning between 1030 - 1130.... Across from easons

No banjo no work .

It's a long neck, 5 string banjo. Yellow sticker on the case...

Cheers

if you appraoch all the shops, bars etc in that area i'm sure they'll have a look on their cameras for ya, make sure and ask up and down shop st and they can be on the lookout for the banjo or banjo case on the move, the garda might not have the time or be bothered enough to go putting the pieces together and there's nothing stopping a citizen from doing the same job themselves, best of luck

masterp · 03-03-2014 03:54PM

I've posted on twitter and facebook. getting a few retweets. The lads are well known and like by City folk.

ArtyC · 03-03-2014 04:10PM

renegademaster wrote: »

if you appraoch all the shops, bars etc in that area i'm sure they'll have a look on their cameras for ya, make sure and ask up and down shop st and they can be on the lookout for the banjo or banjo case on the move, the garda might not have the time or be bothered enough to go putting the pieces together and there's nothing stopping a citizen from doing the same job themselves, best of luck

Yep this is what he's been doing!! Thanks guys

ArtyC · 03-03-2014 04:10PM

masterp wrote: »

I've posted on twitter and facebook. getting a few retweets. The lads are well known and like by City folk.

Thanks- big banjo surely someone knows

thesandeman · 03-03-2014 04:55PM

Did they actually take the case as well? That case is falling apart so it might be worth keeping an ear open for somebody who might be looking for another one if they are planning on selling the banjo.

mikom · 03-03-2014 05:06PM

Time to start a shop street chase between a pick up truck and a squad car.
That'll flush out the banjo........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8NZbVcqAJk

ArtyC · 03-03-2014 05:20PM

thesandeman wrote: »

Did they actually take the case as well? That case is falling apart so it might be worth keeping an ear open for somebody who might be looking for another one if they are planning on selling the banjo.

Ya case gone as well. Had a big yellow sticker on it. Yeah case is falling apart

ScumLord · 03-03-2014 06:48PM

dinneenp wrote: »

If this helps I'm presuming this is the banjo (excuse my photo style)

Galway Street Busker by Photoblog.ie (Patrick Dinneen), on Flickr

I fixed your picture so that it's easier to recognise who your talking about.

2rkehij30qtza5 · 03-03-2014 07:12PM

Hope he finds it. I saw a bango abandoned on shop street in the same location across from easons a few weeks back..like the busker just left it down and went off for a cup of tea. I remember looking around wondering where the owner was! Has he checked any CCTV in the area.

ArtyC · 03-03-2014 08:12PM

Ayden Short Springtime wrote: »

Hope he finds it. I saw a bango abandoned on shop street in the same location across from easons a few weeks back..like the busker just left it down and went off for a cup of tea. I remember looking around wondering where the owner was! Has he checked any CCTV in the area.

Being checked as far as I know. He asked me to put it here. Try anything at this stage.
Said he'd calling found... Thanks lads

not yet · 03-03-2014 08:53PM

Just back in Dublin after a weekend in Galway, Heard this guy doing his thing on sat he sounded incredible, shame that some little bollix steals something that helps him make a living.

Hope he gets it back soon..

dr.bollocko · 03-03-2014 09:00PM

That guy is an awesome busker.

03-03-2014 09:04PM

On a number of occasions I've seen the banjo just left on the ground and the owner nowhere to be seen. Honestly he was asking for it to be taken at some stage and it may be a case that someone saw it left on the ground with no one around and picked it up

Links234 · 03-03-2014 09:05PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

That guy is an awesome busker.

And a nice guy too

Really hope he finds it!

Mrs OBumble · 03-03-2014 09:28PM

Deleted User wrote: »

On a number of occasions I've seen the banjo just left on the ground and the owner nowhere to be seen. Honestly he was asking for it to be taken at some stage and it may be a case that someone saw it left on the ground with no one around and picked it up

I'd be 99% sure that's what happened.

However that doesn't actually make it any less wrong to just take it.

Mike747 · 03-03-2014 10:23PM

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

I'd be 99% sure that's what happened.

However that doesn't actually make it any less wrong to just take it.

No it doesn't, but whenever I played gigs I always kept an eye on my guitar because instruments will walk.

Some scumbag is probably trying to pawn it right now.

inisboffin · 03-03-2014 11:25PM

Ayden Short Springtime wrote: »

Hope he finds it. I saw a bango abandoned on shop street in the same location across from easons a few weeks back..like the busker just left it down and went off for a cup of tea. I remember looking around wondering where the owner was! Has he checked any CCTV in the area.

Yeah I've seen it left too a bunch of times. It's actually made me nervous! Did he leave it to hang on to a pitch or something while he was having refreshments? Yikes! Anyway hope he gets it back soon, it's sh*te for a musician to lose an instrument.

03-03-2014 11:30PM

It sucks for him that his banjo is gone but honestly, if he's willing to leave it abandoned on shop street then he has only himself to blame and it's hard to feel much sympathy for him. I also think that it's unfair to say that it was stolen, he has repeatedly abandoned it on one of the busiest streets in Ireland and hopefully the person who took it will return it or at the very least keep better care of it.

Mrs OBumble · 04-03-2014 12:00AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I also think that it's unfair to say that it was stolen, he has repeatedly abandoned it on one of the busiest streets in Ireland and hopefully the person who took it will return it or at the very least keep better care of it.

Sorry, but taking something that doesn't belong to you IS stealing. Doesn't matter where that thing is.

And of course he was keeping the pitch: does it like that regularly while he has coffee opposite Anto Ryans.

04-03-2014 01:16AM

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Sorry, but taking something that doesn't belong to you IS stealing. Doesn't matter where that thing is.

And of course he was keeping the pitch: does it like that regularly while he has coffee opposite Anto Ryans.

It was abandoned in the street for a considerable amount of time. Yes taking something that doesn't belong to you is stealing but when something is left in the street it's a somewhat grey area. The owner of the banjo lost it between 10:30 and 11:30 meaning that it was abandoned in the street for a full hour. I wouldn't leave anything of value on the street for more than a few seconds and if he really wanted to keep his place then he should have had a coffee brought to him.

If while walking home tonight someone finds a jacket thrown in the street are the stealing it if they take it home? If the banjo was so important to him then he would have kept better care of it. It's a sad situation for the guy and he comes across as a nice guy but honestly it's hard to have sympathy for someone who would just leave something that's supposedly so precious unattended on one of the countrues busiest streets.

biko · 04-03-2014 08:03AM

It's not a grey area. The banjo was stolen and there is no two ways about it. It's not a jacket found in the middle of the night, let's not compare apples and bananas.

If the owner kept leaving it there (if) then of course someone will steal it eventually "opportunity makes a thief".
I suppose the more often you leave it a while and it doesn't get stolen you kinda tend to trust people, and then one day the wrong person walks past.

Good luck busker guy, hope you find it. Try various music shops and other places that may be a way for the thief to flog it.
http://www.donedeal.ie/find/all/for-sale/Ireland/banjo
http://www.adverts.ie/for-sale/q_banjo/

itsirishfarmer · 04-03-2014 08:05AM

put fliers up on lampposts
did he just leave it in the street

biko · 04-03-2014 08:10AM

Right now we don't actually know so it's mostly speculation about what happened.

finlma · 04-03-2014 09:57AM

Deleted User wrote: »

It was abandoned in the street for a considerable amount of time. Yes taking something that doesn't belong to you is stealing but when something is left in the street it's a somewhat grey area.

How is it a grey area? If you parked your car on a street and it was taken it wouldn't be a grey area. It was stolen plain and simple. Give the man more respect than saying he doesn't deserve any sympathy. He's one of the best buskers in the city and doesn't deserve to have his banjo stolen.

Hope its found alive and well.

Banjo stolen on shop street

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