LOL...Funny story, from the outside anyway. Hope tomorrow goes better for you, Rich.
Dave www.posteropolis.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Halegua Comic Art To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 10:30 PM Subject: [MOPO] OT: Keystone Kops, alive & well in Las Vegas hiya folks I have a very funny story for all of you today. You folks remember when my warehouse & office were burglarized in September don't you?? Thieves (we're pretty sure we know who) broke in through the wall from a vacant unit next door, smashed through the office door & stole what was my then new camera, my laptop, some misc stuff and 2 boxes of comics & stuff that was on the front table all told, I filed a claim for my merch at $20,000+ to Collectibles Insurance Agency. My equipment was not covered Called the police and filed a report, the cops walked all around inside the building taking photos of busted doors & the hole in my wall etc. They even sent a fingerprint technician (I called her Marg Helgenberger) to look for prints etc. The day of the burglary, they spent 3 1/2 hours taking pics, my report & looking for prints etc. Then during the next two weeks, I compiled as close a list of missing stuff & filed it with the police and even had photos of about 100 items about a week after the theft I got a phone call from the detective working my case - Detective Madison who assured me they were on the case. He asked about what was stolen and I told him comics etc and said I called all the stores, let them know about the theft & emailed lists to them if possible. I explained that they would have to come up sooner or later & I would hope to retrieve them. Detective Madison said "well they're just comics. How would I know they were your comics unless you have the only copies of them?" I explained that if he saw my pictures he would understand. He said "well lets find them first I guess" and that was that. I filed my insurance claim which was paid this November and then I spotted a guy on ebay selling my books. I alerted Detective Madison to the ebay seller right away & again he gave me the "How would I know they were your comics" line. So I again explained, why don't you look at my pics and his and you will understand immediately. he gave me his email address, I sent him pics & links to the guy's auctions and within 5 minutes he called back, explained that they sure looked like my books and he shot off a request to ebay for info on the seller. It took 3 weeks for ebay to respond and Detective Madison called me to let me know the dealer would come in wityh the books & I should come pick them up later in the afternoon.. that was today. I get to the police station, and I go to his office and of the 400 books, he has 15 crappy issues worth $200 on the outside. Some of them were not even my text list, though I had pics of them - so I guess I didn't even make a full text list for the insurance company. Here is the following discussion: Richie: "Where's the rest of the books?" Detective Madison: "this is all he has left. he says he sold the rest" Richie: " but Detective Madison, the 7 golden age comics he had on ebay aren't here and they were listed until Friday" Detective Madison: "This is all he has left." Richie: "what about the rest?" Detective Madison: "I spoke to the property crimes department. Your insurance company called them. Did you file a claim?" Richie: "yes" Detective Madison: "did you get paid?" Richie: "yes I got replacement value" Detective Madison: "you know these people are innocent, they paid for them too" Richie: "where did they say they got them?" Detective Madison: "he says 2 old people walked in with them" Richie: "you know Detective Madison, they're selling you a crock" Detective Madison: "Mr Halegua, you sell your comic books, I'll do the police work" $25,000 Reported Theft $200. Value Recovery NO Suspects Arrested Crime Solved Case Closed so I took this little stack and went home, because clearly Mack Sennett had started filming movies again, right here in Las Vegas and I had gone to the film set & not a real police station. then when loading some stuff into my car at the house of a friend who is unfortunately on his deathbed, I didn't notice I had dropped my phone under the car until I started backing up & heard C-R-U-N-C-H so tell me folks.. what's going on in your day??? PS. I should mention that the comic store that had or still has my comics is Action Comics in Henderson Nevada Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
