Status: False theft report
A San Francisco woman has admitted to sending police on a wild goose chase to find a $175,000 violin that she claimed had been stolen from her car. She really does own such a violin, but it doesn't appear to have been missing. It's not clear why she said it was. Here are some details from
the AP article:
The sad tale of a San Francisco music student who had a $175,000 18th century violin swiped from her towed car was a fabrication, authorities confirmed Friday... Rhee-Nakajima told police Wednesday that the violin -- along with her wallet and iPod -- were gone when she picked up her vehicle from a private tow company. She said she had locked the instrument in the trunk of her car, which had been parked too long at a supermarket parking lot in the city's Fillmore district and was towed... On Thursday, she appeared on various television stations, pleading with any members of the public who knew the whereabouts of the violin to contact police. That plea turned out to be hollow.
If I owned a $175,000 violin, I'd be a nervous wreck. I wouldn't even want it in my house, in case of a break-in. The obvious thing to suspect in this case is that the student was involved in an insurance scam, but as the article notes, insurance wouldn't cover a violin left in an unattended car. So the motive for the false theft report seems to be a mystery.
Comments
Assuming she wouldn't have to pay for it if really had been stolen from her...
Maybe that was her plan, and then she found out she would in fact have to pay for it, so she thought better of it.
1.) Desperately in search of and in NEED of their 15 minutes of fame...
2.) Before these people go on their quest for their fifteen minutes of fame, don't they realise how idiotic they'll be perceived as by the rest of the world (including the next ones to try and pull off their story) when the truth is revealed.
Good headline ... pun intended?