About $5,000 worth of equipment that belonged to chris rhee was stolen out of brian hata's car while helping steven wishnack with a film project in san francisco on april 16th, 2006. the details »
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the items were stolen from a 1990 black maxima on 2211 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA (right in front of the Academy of Arts dorms). if you have any info about the theft, please contact us.
If you haven’t already seen video promo #1 and #2 you should go check those out. If you’ve seen them already, we have two more for you to watch and pass around.
71 comments — latest comment by Rolando
A while ago, a wise commenter over at My Mean Girl suggested that I create some image buttons for people to place on their websites to help spread the word about the fund raiser. I liked the idea, but I suck at making image buttons.
So the stop tape crew got together and filmed some quick videos for people to watch and pass around. Feel free to link to this post or the videos or embed the flash player into your own site (and leave a comment to let us know that you’re linking it!).
258 comments — latest comment by Mdirsdvo
stop tape is live. It has less to do with all of my stuff being stolen and more to do with a new podcast show that I co-host along with President Wishnack and Wangmaster.
Come back soon, I got some other stuff to tell you later today…
2 comments — latest comment by chris rhee
have you ever seen ravens swarm around the dead body of a wildebeast?
probably not; it only happens in africa.
but you’ve probably heard ravens swarm around the dead body of a wildebeast because that’s the sound jurassic park’s t-rex roar was engineered from.
i’ve strayed from the topic.
tuesdays, i am the wildebeast. i have ten and a half hours of class and two hours of rehearsal. each morning i take a quick shower, down a bowl of cereal, grab my backpack, pound a red bull and smoke a cigarette while waiting for the bus.
today was different. slightly. i had a rockstar.
and i left my house with a blue notepad complete with a list of local pawn shops and a quick note that my friend is afraid of needles.
around noon, i took a trip to three nearby pawn shops. all three of them specialized in jewelry and being an asshole, so i decided to continue my investigatory work by phone.
after a series of pawn shop cashiers hung up on me, i came across chait roberts r (932 mission st). i believe i was talking to the actual chait roberts r, too. and he was very nice.
he suggested i scan craigslist for any suspicious sales, adding that a criminal would mostly likely not come to a pawn shop to get rid of electronic booty.
i can just imagine a cracked out thief using chris’ digital camera to take snap shots of chris’ equipment and loading them up on craigslist with chris’ laptop.
mr. robert r also directed me to citysearch.com, which provides users with a complete list of sf pawn shops. if we emailed each one of them a list of exactly what was stolen they could keep an eye out, or search their inventory.
a pawn shop named pawn shop (1167 sutter st) was my next call.
this cashier informed me his, and every, shop was intensely monitored by the sfpd. that the san francisco cops are “top of the line. like no other.”
i laughed. pretty loudly. and for a long time.
what i know of [san jose] crimefighters is that they take you to jail for littering and missing a court date. or accuse you of robbing saratoga houses. or hijacking satellites. and computers.
but then he explained the sfpd’s “fencing department”, which specializes in returning stolen goods. they work directly with pawn shops and are much different than the sjpd, which i am, unwillingly, very familiar with.
anyhow, he said if we’d filed a police report with the model and serial numbers of the stolen goods, it would be very likely we’d get it back.
that’s potentially sexy news.
i’m off to be picked at by one more flock of hungry ravens.
thank you all for helping us out.
6 comments — latest comment by JesseNewst
It’s been a little over a day since this website went up and I’ve gotten $250 in donations thanks to a handful of generous donors. Every penny is much appreciated — and my expectations were blown away (especially by the people who were giving much more than the $5 we’re asking for).
This morning, I woke up to an inbox full of donation notices and I was expecting maybe 3 or 4 donors for the first day. It’s a beautiful thing to see so many people pitching in to help out in a situation like this. Thanks everyone, for all your help.
3 comments — latest comment by chris rhee
This isn’t quite the launch that the stop tape gang was working towards, but it is what it is. One week ago, I got super robbed in San Francisco while helping Steven with a class project (more details are available in the About section).
We’re hoping to raise some money through this website from kind people like yourself and with some luck and a lot of love, we’ll be able to buy back some of my stolen equipment.
This blog will track our progress in dealing with the theft and we’ll also try to drop some interesting stories along the way. If you like RSS feeds, you’ll love our blog’s RSS feed.
Thanks for checking us out. I’ll keep this site updated with the latest information and progress, so please stick around. We’re starting the fundraiser off at $12 so we have quite a way to go, but I think we have a snowball chance in hell. (We’re a big snowball. And we’re very cold.)
i can't thank everyone enough - your help is very much appreciated.
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aug 15, 2006
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