Thieves in Canada have stolen a $5,000 Gibson Les Paul in an audaciously low-effort theft.

The heist came about within the metropolis of Guelph in Ontario. In line with the native police service, two males entered an unnamed music retailer, noticed that employees members had been serving to different prospects, and easily picked up the guitar and walked out.

The suspects are described as “white males with medium builds.” One had greying hair and tattoos and was sporting a black T-shirt and black footwear. The opposite had a goatee and was sporting a blue T-shirt, black footwear, a black-and-white Nike hat, and camouflage shorts. It’s thought that they left the scene in a darkish gray Honda Civic.

If anybody has any potential info, they’ll contact the Guelph Police Service.

We don’t know which guitar was stolen, however taking the value under consideration it might effectively be one of many devices from the Les Paul Supreme vary Gibson reissued final 12 months.

The Les Paul Supreme is valued at $5,200, and has an AAA-figured maple high on a basic mahogany physique, with a mahogany neck and an ebony fretboard – the police report describes the stolen guitar as having “a translucent ebony color.”

Earlier this 12 months, a guitarist was reunited together with his stolen Les Paul after virtually three many years – so hopefully the music store gained’t have to attend fairly as lengthy to get their inventory again.

The guitarist’s Gibson 1981 Les Paul Customized was stolen from the again of his truck 27 years in the past, one in all his daughters defined on TikTok, so she and her sister spent practically 5 years looking for the guitar to shock their dad for his fiftieth birthday.

One of many daughters mentioned within the video, “A 12 months in the past, Dad requested us to plan this occasion, and inside 10 minutes we’d texted one another like, ‘We simply have to seek out this fucking guitar,’ earlier than jokingly including “don’t lose it this time!”