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PhilL

PhilL

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I posted this Wanted Poster in General, hoping that the more people that see it the better the chance Ed could recover the knife and help find the thief.
Unfortunately it's been buried in the Hall of Shame, where nobody ever goes, so nobody will be able to help.

Please Spark, we need your help to get some exposure about this theft.
Can you put it where people will see it?


The poster says it all.

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If you see or hear anything please contact Ed Fowler:
eafwb@wyoming.com
 
Arrrrrrrrrr! Trying to explain to Phil why putting stolen knife reports in the Hall of Shame is the best way to give them maximum and permanent exposure is like beating your head against a wall. :mad:

I am so pissed off right now I am not even going to respond to his idiocy any more. I think I'll go try to teach a pig to sing.
 
Well, it's not exactly singing, but it's Miss Piggy....

You are a good guy, Phil, but sometimes you are dense! Dense, I tell you! Dense! Dense! :mad:

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Okay I've admitted to being dense, but let's check the numbers; Custom had 323 views, General 207 views and Hall of Shame 124 views. Now the idea was to make as many people aware of the missing knife as possible. If this was your missing knife where would you want to post?

Another drawback of the Hall of Shame post is that the thread is locked, it can't be updated. So really the thread is dead and buried.

So, I may be Dense, but I don't see how you can say I was wrong.

Ohhhh as an UPDATE, the detective assigned to the case, Detective Wade E. Wagnon, Cobb County Police Department, Precinct Three, Crimes Against Property, would very much like to speak a Cougar Allen to find his wearabouts on the morning of Sat. May 31st, and why he is doing everything in his power to hinder the investigation. :D
 
PhilL said:
Ohhhh as an UPDATE, the detective assigned to the case, Detective Wade E. Wagnon, Cobb County Police Department, Precinct Three, Crimes Against Property...
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Snide remarks aside, is that the contact person in the investigation??? If so, perhaps a phone number might help???

I've never met the gentleman, but the owner is not the person to be contacted in a criminal investigation...It leads to lots of problems...for the owner... :(
 
PhilL said:
If you see or hear anything please contact Ed Fowler:
eafwb@wyoming.com
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That is the actual detective in charge of the investigation.
The person to contact if you see or hear anything would be Ed Fowler.
Ed is in contact with the detective, and is very pleased with everything that has been done so far in the case.

Ed Fowler is an active member here at BladeForums, he is also a former LEO. Updates and direct comments from Ed Fowler can be found on other forums here, but not of course in Hall of Shame which has been LOCKED!
 
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One last time, the same person has to keep checking high-traffic forums. One person views a high-traffic forum many times per day, adding up to hundreds of views per month that are all one person who read your post once. He also read the post in the Hall of Shame, but that only added one view to the view count.

The Hall of Shame is not a locked archive; it is a moderated forum. You can post a reply to that thread adding more information. Your post will not appear immediately; it has to wait until a moderator approves it. If it's something that can't wait an hour, post it in TGB&U too. It will appear there immediately.

You still haven't posted in TGB&U as I originally asked you to, have you. I guess I'd better. :rolleyes:
 
As much as I appreciate the heads up on stolen knives, have any of the expensive pieces stolen over the years been recovered?
 
Spark, it there hasn't been one recovered that's a shame.
But, there's always a chance that one might be.
Maybe we can't find the knife, maybe we can't stop the thief from stealing again.
Hopefully if we work together as a community we can slow them down.
This forum that you've built can have a huge power to that end.
 
Not yet, but I have hopes. Now that we have the Hall of Shame we have a permanent repository for these reports, and some stolen knives -- like this one -- are distinctive and recognizable. Somebody is going to see a provably stolen knife for sale, in a dark alley tomorrow or on ebay in a year, who knows where or when, but it will show up.
 
...and some of we particularly obsessive Knife Knuts actually do go to the Hall of Shame and peruse the reports.

And then we keep a permanent eye out for the offenders. :grumpy:

It takes time, but our own little Neighborhood Watch is growing.
 
No offense to Phil, but I don't like multiple threads in multiple forums. I sympathize with Ed and hope the thief is found quickly, but I can't justify a separate forum for stolen stuff or stickying this. Ken Onion had over ten thousand dollars worth of knives stolen from him while in transit to a show; we had that thread stickied for years without a single recovery IIRC.

I hope the cops find this guy and quick... and we'll do what we can, but there's only so much we can do.
 
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